"Worth Crowing About" by Philip Kappel, Amer., (1901-1981) Watercolor and it is wonderful to

and it is wonderful to see renewed interest and scholarly attention being focused on this important early 20th century American etcher and Connecticut artist of note

on red and white striped fabric

but any telltale burr is quite discreet

dislodged from it's grassy river bank and partially submerged in the water

a few touches of stray ink in the margins from printing

"Worth Crowing About" by Philip Kappel, Amer., (1901-1981) Watercolor and it is wonderful toDrypoint, 1940, Ref. F. H. p. 36, Ed. unknown, 5 15 16 x 4, signed in the plate and signed & titled in pencil, and again at bottom left margin edge, annotated at right in pencil: "Fine early print", on cream laid simili japan paper, a fine and richly inked impression of this unusual and charming domestic subject, not commonly seen. Ex coll. of Toby Hall, the artist's biographer.