Frank W Benson, Amer., (1862-1951), Ducks Alighting Drawing A lyrical and richly textured

A lyrical and richly textured late day rural English landscape showing a line of houses nearly hidden by trees  at the edge of a rutted road and field

on smooth cream wove simili vellum paper

together they entertained many artist friends in their stylish Manhattan home through the decades until Mildwoff's passing in 1991

The uncertain volatility of our own current civil divisions and those abroad cannot help but point again to the agency of this masterpiece of mid ninteenth century printmaking

Frank W Benson, Amer., (1862-1951), Ducks Alighting Drawing A lyrical and richly texturedEtching, 1921, Ed. 369, for the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, ref. P. 207, 5 7 8 x 4 7 16, on cream simili japan paper 14 1 4 x 10 5 126. The print comes with its original mat and tissue guard, in it's original gray portfolio cover, all in fine condition, ok, the tissue guard has one corner crease.