A beautiful miniature New England landscape with a pair of grouse by Peterborough, NH artist Nora S. Unwin. Wood engraving on Japan paper, image size 2 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches, published in 1947 for Kiernan's 'Footnotes on Nature', cat: McGoldrick-149, a small edition of 12 impressions, pencil signed, numbered and titled, framed. Nora Unwin grew up in England and studied art with Leon Underwood, then at the Kingston School of Art and the Royal College of Art before moving to the United States in the 1940s, settling in Wellesley, MA and Peterborough, NH. She was a renowned artist, printmaker and children's book illustrator, and contributed a greatly to the revival of wood engraving in 20th century America. She is represented in major museums and won numerous awards throughout her long career, including a Newbury Medal and the Hamilton-Merrill prize of the American Society of Etchers and Engravers in 1951.
