Black and white conte crayon on toned paper, signed and dated 1919 to lower left, presented behind glass in a wood frame.

Sight size 16 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 20 1/2 x 27 1/8 in.

From the Personal Collection of Tommy and Cindy Edwards, Pittsboro, North Carolina

Maurice Lincoln Bower worked as a figurative illustration artist for various prestigious publications including the Saturday Evening Post. Bower studied art at Penn State, and later at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia learning from Howard Pyle's student Walter Everett. In 1932, Maurice exhibited at the Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts.
His work is in the collection of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, MD.

Some toning to sheet; not examined out of the frame.