MARY WALLACE KIRK (American, 1889-1978). Cabin with Gourds, Etching on paper. Pencil signed and
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MARY WALLACE KIRK (American, 1889-1978). Cabin with Gourds, Etching on paper. Pencil signed and titled at base. Framed. Not examined out of frame.ARTIST PROFILE: A resident of Tuscumbia, Ala., for nearly all her life, Mary Wallace Kirk (1889-1978) is virtually unknown today as an artist, despite her training at the Art Students League in New York, where she studied etching with Harry Sternberg. She wrote, "Cabins, especially log cabins, are rapidly disappearing from the Southern landscape. Before these relics of an older day completely pass from the scene it seems fitting to make a pictorial record of them, and to try to capture some of the lowly charm that surrounded them."Neither romantic nor gritty and social realist, her etchings are finely detailed renderings of the countryside in the 1930s and 1940s. Although Kirk produced approximately 80 etchings over the course of her career, she gave up the medium by the 1950s and turned her attention to her duties as a trustee of Agnes Scott College, in Decatur, Ga., of which she was a graduate, and to two memoirs that are illustrated with reproductions of her prints. - 6" x 4"; Frame: 18" x 13"
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MARY WALLACE KIRK (American, 1889-1978). Cabin with Gourds, Etching on paper. Pencil signed and
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