"Nude with Conch" by Albert Sterner, Amer., 1863-1946) Color on textured cream laid charcoal

on textured cream laid charcoal paper

His early to mid century modern abstract painting style and use of color are both complex and engaging

10-1/2 x 7-1/4

with heavy embossing

it is similar in style and feeling to the work of the English printmakers Robert Austen and Stanley Anderson

"Nude with Conch" by Albert Sterner, Amer., 1863-1946) Color on textured cream laid charcoalLithograph, 1925, ed. unknown, 10 7 8 x 6 5 8, signed and dated in the stone, lower right, on cream wove paper. Sterner was a well respected painter and influential printmaker who helped to promote the transition of lithography from it's late 19th century eclipse to it's 20th century revival as a primary and vital fine art medium.