"Market Day" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Etching 9-15/16 x 13-7/8

9-15/16 x 13-7/8

This artist received a BA degree from Yale University in New Haven in 1932

in pencil denoting an impression printed by Dolice

and extending the wall to plate edge  at left

Early in their teens both Hyman Bloom and his friend Jack Levine studied with Harold Zimmerman at the West End Community Center

"Market Day" by Marian Lerer, Amer., (1928-2017) Etching 9-15/16 x 13-7/8Lithograph, Ca. 1950's, Ed. unknown, 5 15 16 x 11 3 16, unsigned, on cream wove paper. While I could not find a reference to this store, it was possibly a local neighborhood institution for Lerer while growing up, as a Joseph Treegob resided at 4083 Landcaster Ave., Philadelphia in 1924, where Lerer later attended art school. Regardless, it is a charming print, full of amusing quirky details in the shop window, including a favored cat raiding the fish