"Hilltop Elms" by Luigi Lucioni, Amer., (1900-1988) New Acquisition on thick cream wove Rives

on thick cream wove Rives paper

While the margins are deeply toned

and home to the central  Asian community of Paris

9-1/2 x 11-1/8

Melanson was a well known Providence painter and printmaker who often worked from imagination

"Hilltop Elms" by Luigi Lucioni, Amer., (1900-1988) New Acquisition on thick cream wove RivesEtching, 1954, AAA ed. of 250, E. 123, 11 x 9 3 4, signed in the plate and signed & dated in pencil, on thick warm white wove paper. Slight toning in mat opening, tape residue along right margin edge. Lucioni was a gifted realist painter and etcher with a precisionist style; most notably in his serene still life and portrait oils which align him with artists like Charles Sheeler. However, Lucioni loved minute detail and indulged his supreme gifts for