"Hilltop Elms" by Luigi Lucioni, Amer., (1900-1988) New Acquisition

"Hilltop Elms" by Luigi Lucioni, Amer., (1900-1988) New AcquisitionEtching, 1954, AAA ed. of 250, E. 123, 11 x 9 3 4, signed in the plate and signed & dated in pencil, on thick warm white wove paper. Slight toning in mat opening, tape residue along right margin edge. Lucioni was a gifted realist painter and etcher with a precisionist style; most notably in his serene still life and portrait oils which align him with artists like Charles Sheeler. However, Lucioni loved minute detail and indulged his supreme gifts for

While the margins are deeply toned

9-1/2 x 11-1/8

Melanson was a well known Providence painter and printmaker who often worked from imagination

a diagonal crease to l/

on thick cream wove Rives paper

7-7/8 x 9-3/4

10-7/16 x 8-7/8

a fine example of his work

His prints are not commonly encountered

and home to the central  Asian community of Paris

9-3/16 x 9-3/16

small loss to top left corner