Etching by M. Howe "Bugged"14/100 (1971) curious about artist/value

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Thank you for taking the time to look at this. I found this at a Goodwill or Value Village awhile back but couldn’t find the artist history. My guess is it's not a valuable piece but I thought it had just enough skill to it, price was low enough and I liked the insects.

 

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Marsha Kristen Howe began formal art training in a summer program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and graduated with honors in 1961 from the Philadelphia High School for Girls with a major in art. She attended the Syracuse University School of Art in New York on a full-tuition scholarship and graduated in 1968, earning a BFA in Printmaking/Painting. Having won many awards for her designs and paintings, many of her works, including a mural, were retained for the University collections.

While working as an illustrator for Gibson Greeting Cards in Denver and later as a senior illustrator with Current Inc. in Colorado Springs, she has continued printmaking and producing other freelance works. She’s now learning porcelain painting, primarily in the European style, and currently lives in Manitou Springs, Colorado.

What you have is an original ‘hand-pulled’ print from a zinc plate on which the design was drawn freehand by the artist and those usually only hold their line-image quality for a maximum of about 300 pressings. So, these are ‘limited edition’ in the sense that the plate can’t be used for mass production and also because Marsha usually limits her runs to 200 prints… all hand signed and numbered. For yours, the run was only 100 and 14/100 means exactly what it says… it was the 14th pressing from the plate. Sometimes, the earlier pressings of long runs are more valuable since the plate deteriorates as the run progresses.

I would think it worth somewhere between $70-100 depending on its size.

 

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Fascinating! Thank you for researching this. It's nice to know something about the artist. It's approximately 8" long by 5" in width. $70-$100 isn't too shabby either