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Red Macaw - ELIZABETH NORTON
Medium: woodcut printed in colors
ELIZABETH NORTON
American, (1888-1985)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1928, edition 100. 9 5/8 x 5 1/8 in. Initialed with her monogram, lower right. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression with rich colors. The paper is a thin Japan paper which is attached at the four corners of the printed sheet. The condition is fine apart from the two top corners are are cut away. This is a companion print to the Red Macaw. Elizabeth Norton was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 16, 1887 and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1910, the Art Students' League, National Academy of Design and the Chase School in New York (now Parsons School of Design). She traveled to California in 1915 to see the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, returning in 1919 to make the San Francisco Bay Area her home. An impression of this print is in the collection of the Spence Museum of Art $1,100
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