Eggplant, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Lithograph then not long after moved

then not long after moved to Englewood New Jersey

edition before letters

Peter Busa  Howard Daum and others who came to be know as the "Indian Space" painters

here in CT

A complex and dynamic later Venetian subject

Eggplant, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Lithograph then not long after movedLithograph, no date, Ed. unknown, 7 3 4 x 4 5 8, a small handling crease an inch above subject covered by overmat, signed in pencil, on thick warm white wove paper, 12 5 8 x 9 1 2. St. Ruth Chrisman Gannett is best known perhaps as the illustrator of John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flats and the children's book My Father's Dragon, written by her stepdaughter Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn. Ruth Chrisman Gannett created a number of fine lithographs in the 1930's