Two Deer with Christmas Stars
Artist
Grace Marion Brown
(early 20th century)
Date1929
MediumWoodcut
Dimensions4 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (10.5 x 18.1 cm)
ClassificationsPrintmaking
Credit LineGift of Michael J. Rivard and Carol Susan Rivard
Object number2019.043
DescriptionVery much in the streamlined Art Deco style of the late 1920s is this Christmas card to Arthur Millier from Grace Marion Brown. Her distinctive style has incredible flow, and the deer are rendered semi-abstractly yet are still recognizable. Brown was a member of a circle of creative Los Angeles intellectuals who banded together to publish a magazine called Opinion. Married to bookseller Louis Samuels, who ran the Penguin Bookshop on Wilshire Boulevard, Brown also designed small-press books, including "Summer Denial," a book of poems by Madeleine Ruthven. She would later contribute art to "Touring Topics," the magazine of the Automobile Club of Southern California (which became "Westways" in 1934). On View
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