Mildred Bryant Brooks - South Fork - Etching AP1263

A scene of men fishing in a forest, beautifully observed and drawn. And, as in most of her work, it is the woods that are the point of the scene. Measures 16" x 18 7/8". Numbered 17/40.  Signed, dated 1940. Mildred Bryant Brooks was born in Maryville, Missouri July 21, 1901, but grew up in Long Beach, California. Always desiring to be an etcher, she was finally able, in her late twenties, in 1929, with marriage and motherhood, to study that medium with artist Arthur Millier, also an art critic for the Los Angeles Times. She enjoyed a successful thirty-plus year career as an etcher, but tragically, her eyesight failed in the early 1960s, not allowing her to work in etching during the more than thirty years that remained before her death in 1995.During her working life, Brooks produced many etchings of trees and the California landscape. Millier, in 1936, wrote that she created "America's best etchings of trees."Brooks studied from 1921-1925 at the University of Southern California, in L