"Market Day" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Etching pencil signed and presents well

pencil signed and presents well

Early in their teens both Hyman Bloom and his friend Jack Levine studied with Harold Zimmerman at the West End Community Center

A prolific printmaker and painter

Contour lines traced in pencil verso for transfer to the block

and the design reminds one of the great Eric Gill

"Market Day" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Etching pencil signed and presents wellLithograph, Ca. 1950's, Ed. unknown, 5 15 16 x 11 3 16, unsigned, on cream wove paper. While I could not find a reference to this store, it was possibly a local neighborhood institution for Lerer while growing up, as a Joseph Treegob resided at 4083 Landcaster Ave., Philadelphia in 1924, where Lerer later attended art school. Regardless, it is a charming print, full of amusing quirky details in the shop window, including a favored cat raiding the fish