"Wadsworth Barn, Hartford, CT" by Edward J. Balthazar, Amer., (1890-1956) Hand-Colored cream simili-japan paper

cream simili-japan paper

Here the bustling human presence along the storefronts and seawall emphasize the dizzying height of the buildings which newly distinguished America’s most modern of cities

verso with light toning and scattered faint foxing

This structure still stands today

who focused on the tranquil beauty of Kent and the Housatonic River

"Wadsworth Barn, Hartford, CT" by Edward J. Balthazar, Amer., (1890-1956) Hand-Colored cream simili-japan paperEtching, 1945, Ed. of 112, 1949 Presentation Print published by the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 7 15 16 x 9 15 16, signed in the plate, and signed, and dedicated "To Geo and Phil Davidson"in pencil, on cream laid paper. For years I believed this print showed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Barn in Hartford, CT, but no evidence supported this. The cataloguing notes for an impression of this print at the New Britain Museum of American Art set me straight,