"Harvest in San Juan, New Mexico" by Peter Moran, Amer., (1841-1914) Aquatint signed & dated with initials

signed & dated with initials in the plate

Merritt Chase

Fay's work deserves to be better known

on the full sheet as originally issued

large and witty figure subject in color by the father of the Art Brut movement or "Raw Art"

"Harvest in San Juan, New Mexico" by Peter Moran, Amer., (1841-1914) Aquatint signed & dated with initialsEtching, ca. 1883, ed. unknown, L. C. 2, 6 1 16 x 12 5 8, printed on pale cream chine colle mounted onto a stiff white wove support sheet, the margins trimmed but measuring at least an inch. Foxing to the left vertical margin extending to adjacent top and bottom margin one inch in from left plate edge, but confined to the margins only. A few tiny spots upper right image corner. Despite these flaws one of Moran's most beautiful southwestern prints in a