Digging Potatoes, by Clare Leighton, Eng.-Amer., (1898-1989) Linocut and numbered 186/200 in pencil

and numbered 186/200 in pencil

The fruit on the tree was hand printed with an inked pencil eraser

on textured cream J Whatman Hand Made watermarked paper

8-1/4 x 6-3/8

He has bee called one of the best abstract painters of the past 50 years

Digging Potatoes, by Clare Leighton, Eng.-Amer., (1898-1989) Linocut and numbered 186/200 in pencilWood Engraving, 1934, for Leighton's celebrated book Four Hedges, published in 1935, Ed. 7 . 30, F. 309 2 13 16" x 4 3 4", toned within mat opening, crease to upper right margin corner old hinges to corners, signed and titled in pencil, on thin cream wove simili japan paper, in a small edition. One of the finest examples of Leighton's ability to create dynamic spacial depth within a vignetted compositional format, with it's beautiful modulations of