"Worth Crowing About" by Philip Kappel, Amer., (1901-1981) Watercolor but any telltale burr is

but any telltale burr is quite discreet

dislodged from it's grassy river bank and partially submerged in the water

then transcended Indian Space concerns for all-over patterning and ambiguity between positive and negative form

verso and notated "31/42 " penciled ref

"Worth Crowing About" by Philip Kappel, Amer., (1901-1981) Watercolor but any telltale burr isDrypoint, 1940, Ref. F. H. p. 36, Ed. unknown, 5 15 16 x 4, signed in the plate and signed & titled in pencil, and again at bottom left margin edge, annotated at right in pencil: "Fine early print", on cream laid simili japan paper, a fine and richly inked impression of this unusual and charming domestic subject, not commonly seen. Ex coll. of Toby Hall, the artist's biographer.