Shy Veery, by James D. Havens, Amer., (1900-1960) Chromolithograph Melanson was a well known

Melanson was a well known Providence painter and printmaker who often worked from imagination

on thin cream wove japan paper 20 x 24-1/4

cataloguer  Ben Dunham

who was called "The American Millet" for his many empathetic images of the rural and urban poor

1900-1940"

Shy Veery, by James D. Havens, Amer., (1900-1960) Chromolithograph Melanson was a well knownColor Wood Engraving, 36th Presentation Print for The Woodcut Society, New York, 1949, Ed. 141 200, 9 9 16 x 7 15 16, signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, on a cream wove sheet measuring 12 9 16 x 10 1 2, in fine condition save for a few spots of pale foxing to the margins and to the original folder with an essay on the artist by Elisabeth Whitmore.