"Brooklyn Heights, Fulton St. El with Beecher Monument" by Mortimer Borne, Polish-Amer., (1902-1987) Pastel Gertrude Barrer was a member

Gertrude Barrer was a member of the group of painters in New York in the mid to late 1940s including Steve Wheeler

on thin cream wove paper measuring 12-7/16 x 9-3/4

some skinning to margins

with losses and tape residue to the tips of margin corners well away from image

Ruth Lewin

"Brooklyn Heights, Fulton St. El with Beecher Monument" by Mortimer Borne, Polish-Amer., (1902-1987) Pastel Gertrude Barrer was a memberDrypoint, 1949, ed. 39, not in B., 6 x 7 1 2, on cream wove paper, signed, titled & numbered in pencil. Mortimer Borne's early drypoints of New York Cityand surrounding area from the late 1920's 1940's are compelling in their slightly expressionist aesthetic and attention to detail, and deserve to be seen more often. A prolific printmaker and painter, his work is in the collection of several museums. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds a