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New York City area etchings by Walworth Stilson

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New York City etchings, total of 4. Item 1 - etching on Japan paper of Broadway and 34th St "#16", signed lower right in pencil, "Walworth Stilson" and also in plate. Very good condition. 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" including etching margin. Item 2 - etching on Japan paper, titled "5. Lake in Central Park". 3 3/4" x 5 " etching. Very Good Condition, some wrinkling of Japan paper on right margin. Item 3 - New York City etching on paper titled in lower left margin "31 Central Park & Museum". Signed in the plate, lower right side, "Walworth Stilson". Very good condition with one brown spot to lower right corner of etching. 5" x 6 7/8" etching. Item 4 - New York City etching on paper of church, signed in pencil lower right margin and also in the plate. "102" in lower left corner. Excellent condition. 6 3/4" x 8 3/4" etching. Litchfield County, Connecticut artist, Walworth Stilson (1874-1962) attended the Detroit School of Art, studying under listed artist, John Ward Dunsmore. He completed his art studies at the Detroit Academy, where listed artist Joseph W. Gies was his instructor. His art career started in New York City at the "Illustrated American". He also illustrated for St. Nicholas Magazine and the Metropolitan Magazine of New York. Books illustrated by Stilson include "Our Fern and Their Haunts" by Willard N. Chute and "The Writers of Knickerbocker New York" by Hamilton Wright Mabie. An extensive biography of Stilson was done in a June 1925 article of the Bridgeport Life Newspaper of Bridgeport, Connecticut reviewing Stilson's artistic, poetic, and musical genius. Examples of Stilson's work are in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery and The New Milford Historical Society of Connecticut.

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