"Snow Fields". Etching on paper, signed in the lower right margin, matted and framed under glass, the image size 7-1/2" x 11-7/8", and with framing overall 14-1/2" x 19-3/4".
Born in Tokyo, Japan to Canadian missionary parents, he earned an international reputation as an etcher. In 1907, he came to New York and studied at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute. Early he did illustration and then became an expert etcher. In World War I, he was a sergeant in the Army Engineers and put his reactions to that experiece in a series of etchings, 1935, called "War." His depictions of combat realities of war are some of the angriest visual arguments against war ever expressed in this country. This includes his World War II depictions of landings in the Pacific.
500/700 Sold $431.25
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