My First Day At School by Howard Baer, Amer., (1907-1986) Color initialed and dated 89 in

initialed and dated 89 in the plate and signed in pencil lower left

on cream wove somerset watermarked paper 22 x 14-3/4

and for many years in New York until his death in 2018

original hinges to top margin edge

and dated in pencil

My First Day At School by Howard Baer, Amer., (1907-1986) Color initialed and dated 89 inLithograph, 1940's, Ed. 250 for AAA, 11 7 8 x 9, signed in pencil, barely perceptible mat line, on cream wove paper 13 3 4 x 11. Baer made at least three lithographs remembering his own experiences attending a small rural school as a young boy around 1910 12. Several of his prints are regionalist in feeling, revisiting memories of youth, though I've seen one foreign subject as well. His sure hand and universal themes elicit empathy and nostalgia for