"Diamond Merchant" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Aquatint A bold early print by

A bold early print by the artist

A visit to her home is to walk straight into her prints

before the monogrammed signature in the plate upper right

is best known as the inventor of Solar Plate Etching

titled and dated 1926 in the plate

"Diamond Merchant" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Aquatint A bold early print byLithograph, Ca. 1950's, Ed. unknown, 12 3 16 x 8 3 16, unsigned, on cream wove paper. As with her print "Treegob's Variety", Marian Lerer here explores the "stage and actors" on which the wheels of local commerce turn, and this diamond merchant may have been a local neighborhood fixture in Philadelphia observed by Lerer while growing up. Regardless, it is a striking image, devoid of comedic elements, with it's formidible, stoic subject, fixing us with