"Harvest in San Juan, New Mexico" by Peter Moran, Amer., (1841-1914) Aquatint Merritt Chase

Merritt Chase

then emigrated to America in 1927

conveying the effects of light

large and witty figure subject in color by the father of the Art Brut movement or "Raw Art"

National Academy

"Harvest in San Juan, New Mexico" by Peter Moran, Amer., (1841-1914) Aquatint Merritt ChaseEtching, ca. 1883, ed. unknown, L. C. 2, 6 1 16 x 12 5 8, printed on pale cream chine colle mounted onto a stiff white wove support sheet, the margins trimmed but measuring at least an inch. Foxing to the left vertical margin extending to adjacent top and bottom margin one inch in from left plate edge, but confined to the margins only. A few tiny spots upper right image corner. Despite these flaws one of Moran's most beautiful southwestern prints in a