"Tugboat at the Pier (N.Y. Harbor)" by Leslie Joseph Powell, Amer., (1906-1978) Ink Sterner was a well respected

Sterner was a well respected painter and influential printmaker who helped to promote the transition of lithography from it's late 19th century eclipse to it's 20th century revival as a primary and vital fine art medium

His fine color prints are distinguished by their beautiful color harmonies and painterly use of aquatint

a crisp impression in a warm brown ink of this popular subject

While this print and others I have handled by the artist in the past 20 years have all been unsigned

"Tugboat at the Pier (N.Y. Harbor)" by Leslie Joseph Powell, Amer., (1906-1978) Ink Sterner was a well respectedWatercolor and Pencil, 1942, 19 5 8 x 24 1 2, signed & dated in pencil, on a full sheet of J. Green & Son white watercolor paper. There is an old mat line, foxing to sky and some fading of blue pigment, noticable under edges of mat. This large and dynamic precisionist watercolor of an iconic New York tugboat was previously exhibited by the American Watercolor Society. Included is a 1940's 50's typed exhibition label from Art for Industry New York held