"St. Jerome and the Genii" by Gracia M. Melanson, Amer., (1932-2004) Mezzotint on smooth grayish cream wove

on smooth grayish cream wove paper

A beautiful two-sided sheet of a favorite early subject of the artist

There are traces of tape residue at the top margin corners

signed in the plate & in pencil

" on buff laid paper

"St. Jerome and the Genii" by Gracia M. Melanson, Amer., (1932-2004) Mezzotint on smooth grayish cream wovePen & ink, 1967, 13 x 10, signed "Gracia" in ink lower left, on thick textured warm white watercolor paper. Melanson was a well known Providence painter and printmaker who often worked from imagination. She was Professor Emeritus at R. I. S. D. and the first woman there to be granted a masters in painting. This is a fine drawing by the artist.