"Quartet" by James Weeks, Amer., (1922-1998) Pastel

"Quartet" by James Weeks, Amer., (1922-1998) PastelEtching, 1975, ed. 200, 8 3 4 x 11 13 16, signed & dated in pencil on warm white wove paper. Small stain left margin edge, light toning to mat opening. James Weeks, born in Oakland, California, taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and University of CA at Los Angeles until 1970, then at Boston University, where he became chair of the Art Department until his retirement in 1987. Weeks made very few prints, and this etching on a musical theme,

There is no catalogue raisonne of the artist's etchings

a crisp and detailed impression of this fine angling image by Schaldach

including Pop Hart

signed and dated in black ballpoint pen

California

confident architectural rendering with minimal detail

some spots of foxing well away from image

small printing crease in image upper left

There is also an English painter named Frank Mason

which he founded in 1947

with scholarships for study at the Grand Central School of Art and travel abroad

but even more so in their genuine feeling for their subject