"Venice - The Grand Canal" by James Alphege Brewer, Eng., (1881-1946) Color textures and street level activity

textures and street level activity of this city corner viewed from an upper floor across the street

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

Just a stunning print

and once rematted in a  four ply rag  mat

"Venice - The Grand Canal" by James Alphege Brewer, Eng., (1881-1946) Color textures and street level activityEtching, ca. 1924 25, Ed. unknown, 5 1 8 x 8 1 4, signed and titled in pencil, on heavy cream wove J Head paper, a pale trace of mat line. Brewer was born in London to a family of artists, and spent most of his career based in Acton, west of London, excelling at architectural subjects, in particular the churches found all over Europe. His prints feature a dramatic use of light with strong contrast of dark and light, and this view of the Grand Canal in