"God's Acre, Caanan, CT" by Walter Dubois Richards, Amer., (1907-2006) Woodcut 1940's-60's

1940's-60's

all absorbed from study of Native American sources and art of the Northwest Coast instead of that of Europe

but extremely rare as according to Scneiderman

Based in Newport

"God's Acre, Caanan, CT" by Walter Dubois Richards, Amer., (1907-2006) Woodcut 1940's-60'sLithograph, ca. 1940, ed. 200, 14 x 9 7 8, signed, titled and annotated A. P. in pencil, on warm white wove paper. This large and stunning lithograph is a tour de force showing Richards technical precision and emotive command of the medium. This beautiful and stately congregational church is located in New Caanan, CT; the meeting house for which dates to 1843, the chapel, parlor and church school dating to 1953. It was a favorite subject for Richards,