Levon West

Etching by the American artist Levon West measuring 8 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches, 1927, pencil signed, titled and numbered 70/100, printed by West. Levon West was a watercolorist, printmaker and photographer, studying at the Art Students' League and then with Joseph Pennell. A great admirer of Whistler, West created his own "Venice Set" in 1931, along with a series of five etchings of native life in Hudson Bay. His works are on display in the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many others.