Dr. Dain L. Tasker

mounted, framed, 1937 (Tasker, unpaginated)

Acquired from Stephen White Associates, Los Angeles, 1999

This early print, on paper with a light surface sheen and on a mount with an egg-shell texture, is in generally very good condition. In raking light, small creases (the largest of which measures 2½ inches) are visible in the lower right quadrant and central portion of the image. The cream-colored mount is bumped and rubbed at the corners. There is light age-appropriate darkening at the periphery of the mount, as well as a few stray graphite marks in the upper mount edges. The number '7' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil in the lower right mount corner.
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