Mary Bonner (1887-1935), Roscoff Series: 5 etchings

Mary Bonner (1887-1935), 4 etchings (5 total with cover) of "La Bretagne: Quelques Types de Roscoff”, 1924, drypoint etchings, plate size aprox. 5 x 7" ea., paper size aprox. 8 x 10" ea., unframed
1. Cover, bears artist's red chopmark and numbered 4/26. Published: Hollers George, "Mary Bonner: Impressions of a Printmaker", page 91.
2. "Le Jour de Fete", bears artist's red chopmark and numbered 7/26, titled, signed and dated. Published: Hollers George, "Mary Bonner: Impressions of a Printmaker", page 52.
3. Fishermen, signed and dated lower right
4. "La Famille", bears artist's red chopmark and numbered 6/26, titled, signed and dated
5. "La Lavandiere", bears artist's red chopmark and numbered 4/26, titled, signed and dated

In 1924, Bonner published a folio of 10 drypoints inspired by a trip to Roscoff in the northern party of Brittany on the Golfe de St. Malo. Mary Bonner lived most of her life in San Antonio with long periods of time in Paris, France. She began her formal art training at age sixteen, and her first teacher was Robert Onderdonk. She went to New York in 1922, and that summer went to France and became a student of Edouard-Henri Leon, one of France's renowned engraver. By 1925, she was exhibiting with the foremost French etchers in two salons of the the Society of French Artists. Bonner was active in the San Antonio Art League and maintained studios both in that city and in Paris, France. She spent the remainder of her life in San Antonio, Texas.
Condition Report: Cover: paper tattered
"Le Jour de Fete": paper yellowed with age; .25" tear at right side of paper, some dents in paper
Fishermen: good, some yellowing at edges
"La Famille": good, some yellowing at edges
"La Lavandiere": good, some yellowing at edges