"Bend in a Stream with Three Ducks" by Edith Penman, Amer., (1860-1929) Tempera on thick buff colored wove

on thick buff colored wove paper with small but original margins

Thorpe often favored a dramatic black background to focus the viewer's attention on the vibrant color and delicate silhouette of blooms and foliage

In 1938 Pollak and his wife settled in San Francisco which remained his base

SC where I purchased 3 pieces from his estate in the late 1980's

the colors bright and unfaded

"Bend in a Stream with Three Ducks" by Edith Penman, Amer., (1860-1929) Tempera on thick buff colored woveEtching. ca. 1890, ed. unknown, 6 7 16 x 9 3 16, signed in script in the plate below the image along with an etched dragonfly remarque, on thick stiff cream wove paper. Light soil, a few faint spots of foxing mostly in the margins, and browning at margin edges from contact with the previous frame. The artist was a member of both the New York Etching Club and the Byrdcliff Arts & Crafts colony in Woodstock, New York.