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About Artist:

Ethel Mars, 1876-1959, was an American woodblock print artist, known for her white-line woodcut prints, also known as Provincetown Prints, and a children's book illustrator. She had a lifelong relationship with fellow artist Maud Hunt Squire, with whom she lived in Paris and Provincetown, Massachusetts. This print was created circa 1908 during her first phase of wood block printing, and her first residency in France. Along with the wave of artist moving to France at the turn of the century,she moved to Paris in 1906. Mars made chalk drawings, paintings, and woodblock prints. Her work is described as follows, "in landscapes, portraits, domestic vignettes, street and cafe scenes, Mars's work is distinguished by its flat forms, bold simplicity of design and lively color." Mars shared her woodblock printmaking techniques with visiting American artists. She regularly exhibited and juried shows at Salon d'Automne, where she was an elected member. She was also a member of Société des Beaux-Arts. Besides being regularly exhibited in Paris, she also exhibited throughout the United States. In 1909, Harper's Weekly published her painting Woman with a Monkey, which won the "Best Painting by a Woman" award at the Society of Western Artists the next year.