"Pioneers Resting" by Eugene Higgins, Amer., (1874-1958) Engraving Originally an illustrator who studied

Originally an illustrator who studied with Harvey Dunn and N

with subtle modulations of value and a remarkable quality of light on form

and a small discrete compression to the surface at top right of image border

repaired short edge tear and hard creases to left margin below center

11-3/8 x 10-3/4

"Pioneers Resting" by Eugene Higgins, Amer., (1874-1958) Engraving Originally an illustrator who studiedEtching, 1938, ed. 149, LC 164, 5 3 4 x 7 7 8, on cream wove paper, signed in pencil. The image is fine, but there are marginal issues. There is a very pale mat line, a small repaired puncture in the lower left margin and a short repaired tear at the right center margin edge. Higgins, who was called "The American Millet" for his many empathetic images of the rural and urban poor, summered in Old Lyme Ct for many years.