Eggplant, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Lithograph on very thin cream japan

on very thin cream japan tissue which has been chine colled to a white wove support sheet

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

Ernest Roth had studied etching at the National Academy under James Smillie and was already an accomplished artist

then not long after moved to Englewood New Jersey

Eggplant, by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, Amer., (1896-1979) Lithograph on very thin cream japanLithograph, 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