"Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal" by Ernest D. Roth, (Amer., 1879-1964) Lithograph collaborating on several murals for

collaborating on several murals for public buildings and a series of paintings of Birmingham's steel and iron industry

I marvel at their continued affordability

an early state of the full plate before  inscriptions and before the plate was cut down to frame the head and shoulders against the drape at left and trees at right

with small margins and old hinges top corners verso

Sterner was a well respected painter and influential printmaker who helped to promote the transition of lithography from it's late 19th century eclipse to it's 20th century revival as a primary and vital fine art medium

"Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal" by Ernest D. Roth, (Amer., 1879-1964) Lithograph collaborating on several murals forEtching, 1945, ed. unknown, 7 11 16 x 10 7 8, signed & titled in the plate, on cream wove paper, very faint mat line.