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CRAIG McPHERSON Two mezzotints.
Clairton, 1997. 345x423 mm; 13 1/2x16 3/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 75. Signed, dated, titled and numbered "A.P. 10/25" in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Cleveland Print Club, with the blind stamp lower left * Edgar Thomson, 1998. 445x600 mm; 17 1/2x23 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 22/75 in pencil, lower margin. Both printed on blue wove paper. Both very good impressions.
Clairton was commissioned by the Cleveland Print Club for the organization's 75th anniversary in 1992. McPherson (born 1948) spent five years executing the mezzotint, which became the first in the artist's series of steel mills, of which Edgar Thomson is included.
