About the work

This work by the Massachusetts artist George Elmer Browne is a particularly fine example of drypoint etching. The shadowy images of men working and boats in the bay set the mood.

This work may be the work by which Browne is best known. Impressions of this etching are held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Smithsonian Institution, and other important museums.

Attributes	Value
Medium	Etching
Signing, Dating, and Titling	Signed by the artist en recto on bottom
Framing	Custom framed and matted
Condition	Good Condition
Date	1920-1940
Type	Old Etchings

Medium:

Etching on tan wove paper

Date:

1936

Publisher:

Associated American Artists

Signature:

Hand-signed by the artist in pencil en recto lower right.

Edition:

Printed in an unnumbered edition of 204.

Framing:

Framed in a fine heavy black frame with gilt-painted front edge and behind a fabric-wrapped mat. The frame shows its age but remains well-suited to the work.

Condition:

Small tear about 1″ at signature and another near left margin; neither is prominent or distracting.

Framed Size:

19.25 in (w) × 17.125 in. (h) 1.75 in. (d)

Image Size:

12 in. (w) x 10 in. (h)

Literature:

Catalogue: No. 66 in Gail Windisch and Sylvan Cole Jr., “Index of AAA
Prints,” in Art for Every Home: An Illustrated Index of
Associated American Artists Prints, Ceramics, and Textile
Designs (Manhattan: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum
of Art, Kansas State University, 2016).
AAA Cat.: 1936‑02; 1936‑04; 1937‑06