Antique 1939 Walter Ronald Locke Signed End of Sugaring Maple Tree Etching 21"

Description

Antique 1930's limited edition black and white etching titled "End of Sugaring" by Walter Ronald Locke. Depicts a forest landscape with stacks of buckets laying beside sugar maple trees, with figures approaching a barn in the distance. Pencil titled, signed, and dated '39, lower edge. Published by Associated American Artists. Wood frame with black detail; white mat; original label on back.

"Walter Ronald Locke (1883 - 1949) was an etcher best known for his landscapes. He resided in Florida and many of his surviving works are of Florida scenes, although he also made prints of places elsewhere in the United States. Locke was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, and studied art under Louis Kronberg and Alfred Hutty. During his lifetime, he exhibited at the Library of Congress and Society of American Etchers. He was also affiliated with Associated American Artists, an organization founded to produce and market fine art prints nationwide. The latter marketed his prints with a biography that noted "[h]is works are often the results of months of study, and of an almost impossible amount of long hard work, so that every least bit of foliage may be accurate and detailed." His works are in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Carnegie Museums, Pittsburgh; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; and the Yale University Art Gallery." (askART)

Condition

Good Overall - Discoloration

Dimensions

20.75" x 0.5" x 16.75" (Width x Depth x Height)