Includes a surrealist Mehrdad Rashidi style lithograph print, marked A/P artist's proof lower left and illegible signed lower right; and Ethel Lubell Smul original lithograph, Striped Rooster. Signed Ethel L. Smul, titled and numbered 6/15 by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. Ethel Smul, New York City, 1892 - 1978, was a fine twentieth century painter and lithographic artist. Ethel Smul first studied art at Hunter College. She then completed her education at the Art Students League of New York, under Brackman, Olinsky and Boardman Robinson. Ethel Smul was equally accomplished with both landscapes and figure studies. She began to exhibit her art around 1925 at such major institutions as the National Academy of Design, the National Association of Women Artists, Library of Congress, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Riverside Museum, and other shows in New York, Boston, Rochester and Philadelphia. Ethel Smul was a member of the American Society of Contemporary artists, New York ASCA, the New York Society of Women artists, the New York Teachers Guild and the Society of Independent Artists. Examples of her artwork can be found in the permanent collections of the American Society of Contemporary Artists, New York, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio and other major private and public institutions.