untitled woodcut on paper signed and dated l.l. 1950 4 of 15 20 x 15 inches (sight) 24 x 18 inches (paper) Overall good condition Maud Ainslie was born in November 1870 in Louisville, Kentucky. She studied with Arthur Wesley Dow in Ipswich, Massachusetts before 1900. About 1912, she visited Provincetown, Massachusetts, an art colony which became her summer home until her death. She worked there with William Zorach and other printmakers executing and exhibiting block prints. In Louisville, Ainslie was quite active in the arts community. As a 1909 charter member of the Louisville Art Association, she helped promote an appreciation of the visual arts in the city. The Association mounted exhibitions of artists with a national reputation.