Laughing Breton by Gordon Grant, Amer., (1875-1962) Drawing Amos Langdown

Amos Langdown

significant skinning and thinning to paper verso

collage and printmaking

faint mat line from previous mount

then transcended Indian Space concerns for all-over patterning and ambiguity between positive and negative form

Laughing Breton by Gordon Grant, Amer., (1875-1962) Drawing Amos LangdownDrypoint, late 1930's, Ed. 46 150, 9 7 8 x 11, signed and numbered in pencil, on cream laid paper 13 3 16 x 9 1 8. Gordon Grant's superb draftsmanship and feeling for character are certainly manifest here in this graphically bold and memorable portrait study. The tiny fly seen posing on the pencil elipse in Grant's signature however will not be manifest when The Laughing Breton arrives on your doorstep. But my, how flies time when we are photographing