HENRIETTA SHORE (1880 -1963)
WATER LILY c. 1928
Lithograph, signed and titled in pencil and with the pencil cypher of printer Lynton Kistler (K)
Image 7 x 6 1/8, full margins, sheet 12 ½ x 9 ½” # 20 is likely the edition size. # 18 in lower left likely the edition number. Henrietta Shore’s Modernist / deco style was well known. She was associated with many Modernists and photographer Edward Weston as well. “Water Lily” closely resembles some of Weston’s photography.
From Smithsonian American Art Museum:
“Henrietta Shore (1880-1963) was an early pioneer of the Modernism movement of art on the West Coast. She discovered lithography while traveling in Mexico and took inspiration from the southern landscape and indigenous traditions. On returning to California in 1928, Shore began working in the Los Angeles lithography workshop of master printer Lynton Kistler making her one of the first women lithographers working in California. "
