"Garden Flowers" by Margaret J. Patterson, Amer., (1867-1950) Watercolor so the final maquette for

so the final maquette for for the portfolio was completed and approved by Matisse in 1953

The image and chine surface are remarkably fine

inscribed & dated in pencil

Werner Drewes was a prolific painter and printmaker equally adept at the difficult arts of engraving and color woodcut

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"Garden Flowers" by Margaret J. Patterson, Amer., (1867-1950) Watercolor so the final maquette forColor Woodcut, 1921, Ed. 100, but fewer printed, 10 1 2 x 7 1 4, a particularly bright, luminous impression; with hand painted additions to the green stalks and leaves by the artist, unsigned, on thick fibrous cream japan, and trimmed to the subject by the artist, as was common. This was purchased back in 1986 or 87 from Steven Thomas's first big Margaret Patterson list. I was so excited I drove all the way to Vermont to view the collection and took