Flowers and Sea. 300x194 mm; 11 3/4x7 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right * Harbor Lights, 1908. 120x155 mm; 4 3/4x6 1/8 inches, trimmed to the image around the left, right, and upper sheet edge. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin, and titled in pencil, verso.
Colwell (1881-1954) was born in Michigan and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She learned to make color woodcuts from Bror J. O. Nordfeldt in his studio in South Chicago. Colwell exhibited widely from the 1910s through the 1930s, showing (and winning awards for her prints) in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Chicago and Rome.
