Elizabeth Saltonstall (1900-1990) Limited Lithograph, “Great Expectations”, edition #50, titled and dated lower left, pencil signed lower right, matted and framed.  The artist had said “this duck, half domestic, half wild, came for several seasons from the creeks and nested in the garden of the Karpenkos on Union Street in Nantucket, her eggs never hatched hence the title of the print”

9.75 in. x 13 in. Farmed 16 in. x 18.5 in.

Elizabeth Saltonstall (1900-1990) Was a prominent artist who excelled in printmaking, and an art teacher for nearly four decades. She attended the Winsor School, the art school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she studied fine and graphic arts with a focus on the natural world for inspiration. She became a major supporter of the Boston Society of Independent Artists, and studied briefly in Paris. Although she painted in oils, acrylics, and watercolors, stone lithography became her principle medium.She was one of the first artists to join the Nantucket Artist Association—and so found—the Artists Association with good friend and fellow printmaker Ruth Haviland Sutton.