"Brooklyn Heights, Fulton St. El with Beecher Monument" by Mortimer Borne, Polish-Amer., (1902-1987) Pastel

"Brooklyn Heights, Fulton St. El with Beecher Monument" by Mortimer Borne, Polish-Amer., (1902-1987) PastelDrypoint, 1949, ed. 39, not in B., 6 x 7 1 2, on cream wove paper, signed, titled & numbered in pencil. Mortimer Borne's early drypoints of New York Cityand surrounding area from the late 1920's 1940's are compelling in their slightly expressionist aesthetic and attention to detail, and deserve to be seen more often. A prolific printmaker and painter, his work is in the collection of several museums. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds a

Gertrude Barrer was a member of the group of painters in New York in the mid to late 1940s including Steve Wheeler

and the Austrian St

Howard Daum

The artist was a capable student of Birger Sandzen and embraced a similar muscular and linear drawing style

on thin cream wove paper measuring 12-7/16 x 9-3/4

10-7/16 x 8-7/8

some skinning to margins

This same model posed for Renoir and Lautrec

by La Guild de Gravure

Ruth Lewin

The cream colored satin "flashes" as one walks by the print

with losses and tape residue to the tips of margin corners well away from image