Reading Class by Howard Baer, Amer., (1907-1986)

Lithograph, 1940's, Ed. 250 for AAA, 8-3/4 x 11, signed in pencil, small loss to lower left margin edge at corner, pale trace of mat line, on cream wove paper 12-5/16 x 10-11/16. Baer made at least three lithographs remembering his own experiences attending a small rural school as a young boy around 1910-12. Several of his prints are Regionalist in feeling, revisiting memories of youth, though I've seen one foreign subject as well. His sure hand and universal themes elicit empathy and nostalgia for the simpler, slower pace of life his prints portray.