"New York Life Building, Madison Square, New York City" by Ernest D. Roth, (Amer., 1879-1964) Aquatint

"New York Life Building, Madison Square, New York City" by Ernest D. Roth, (Amer., 1879-1964) AquatintWatercolor and Pencil on thick cream wove paper, ca. 1930's, 15 1 4 x 20 1 4, uneven toning to the sheet with some soiling at the outer edges, unsigned, but inscribed by Roth on verso lower left corner in pencil: "#16 Madison Square N. Y. Life Bldg." This New York City scene by Ernest Roth, though unfinished, shows elaborate fine detail in the facades of the various buildings, and gives insight into the artist's working methods for developing a

scattered marginal foxing and soiling

unknown but probably small

A fine landscape darftsman and etcher

and was exhibited in Waterbury's Mattatuck Museum's wonderful "Travelers Tales" exhibition in 2010

with the tack holes at the edges as usual

as printed

Guy MacCoy was one of the pioneers of color silkscreen

and that the building pictured in this print was the Clark Insulate Electric Wire Company in Bristol

a ghost of mat line and inconspicuous bump crease left margin center edge and lower right corner tip

9-1/4 x 10-7/16

Green & Son white watercolor paper

stray ink drip and small loss to upper right sheet corner