"Worth Crowing About" by Philip Kappel, Amer., (1901-1981) Watercolor with the Flat Iron building

with the Flat Iron building looming behind St

a few touches of stray ink in the margins from printing

then transcended Indian Space concerns for all-over patterning and ambiguity between positive and negative form

verso and notated "31/42 " penciled ref

Barrer infused her own hybrid imagery with elements of both organic and man made structure

"Worth Crowing About" by Philip Kappel, Amer., (1901-1981) Watercolor with the Flat Iron buildingDrypoint, 1940, Ref. F. H. p. 36, Ed. unknown, 5 15 16 x 4, signed in the plate and signed & titled in pencil, and again at bottom left margin edge, annotated at right in pencil: "Fine early print", on cream laid simili japan paper, a fine and richly inked impression of this unusual and charming domestic subject, not commonly seen. Ex coll. of Toby Hall, the artist's biographer.