Lionel Barrymore etching print Signed in plate Print “ The Old Boat Works”. Print from 1940 - produced in late 50s. Print is 8-1/2” x 11”. In Matte. Ships flat. Matte is 16” x 14”. Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life. Barrymore had attended art school in New York and Paris and was a skillful graphic artist, creating etchings and drawings and was a member of the Society of American Etchers, now known as the Society of American Graphic Artists. For years, he maintained an artist's shop and studio attached to his home in Los Angeles. This scene depicts three weathered boat workers with gaunt features. There is an African American man working at a bench on the left. Two other men are seated next to a furnace on the right-hand side. Both are enjoying a beverage.

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