"Diamond Merchant" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Aquatint especially the procreative generative force

especially the procreative generative force we share in common with every other living thing on our planet

Gouache on thick watercolor paper

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Steve Wheeler

before the monogrammed signature in the plate upper right

"Diamond Merchant" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Aquatint especially the procreative generative forceLithograph, Ca. 1950's, Ed. unknown, 12 3 16 x 8 3 16, unsigned, on cream wove paper. As with her print "Treegob's Variety", Marian Lerer here explores the "stage and actors" on which the wheels of local commerce turn, and this diamond merchant may have been a local neighborhood fixture in Philadelphia observed by Lerer while growing up. Regardless, it is a striking image, devoid of comedic elements, with it's formidible, stoic subject, fixing us with