Pine Tops No. 1

This is an etching from 1910. Edition of 30. This print has plate toning and and interesting perspective. Pencil signed in the lower right "Kerr Eby imp", the 'imp' indicating that Eby printed this impression himself. The plate measures 7 x 5 inches on 9 x 7 inch watermarked wove paper. The scene depicted was probably in the New York City vicinity, like his other early landscapes. Kerr Eby was a remarkable printmaker and a member of the Cos Cob Art Colony and friends with many of the important artists of the day, including Childe Hassam and John Taylor Arms. Eby was known for his atmospheric renderings of the New England landscape as well as his dramatic images of WWI.