Sale 2649 - Lot 16

LOÏS MAILOU JONES (1905 - 1998)

Menemsha Creek.

Drypoint on cream wove paper, circa 1940s. 177x215 mm; 7x8 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin.

This drypoint, also titled Menemsha, of Martha's Vineyard is a scarce, early print. Intaglio printmaking (etching, drypoint and aquatint) is a medium in which Jones experimented briefly during her time at Howard University in the early 1940s. Two other etchings of hers, The Quarry and Les Clochards, Paris, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.