"Pioneers Resting" by Eugene Higgins, Amer., (1874-1958) Engraving and a small discrete compression

and a small discrete compression to the surface at top right of image border

traces of brown water tape at margin edges

11-3/8 x 10-3/4

with subtle modulations of value and a remarkable quality of light on form

1960's-70's

"Pioneers Resting" by Eugene Higgins, Amer., (1874-1958) Engraving and a small discrete compressionEtching, 1938, ed. 149, LC 164, 5 3 4 x 7 7 8, on cream wove paper, signed in pencil. The image is fine, but there are marginal issues. There is a very pale mat line, a small repaired puncture in the lower left margin and a short repaired tear at the right center margin edge. Higgins, who was called "The American Millet" for his many empathetic images of the rural and urban poor, summered in Old Lyme Ct for many years.