Inscribed and signed by Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988), an Italian born American painter, who became one of America's most brilliant landscape artists and whose work is noted for its high level of realism and attention to detail. In 1932, Lucioni became the youngest person to have a painting purchased for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964), American music critic, novelist, and photographer, turned to photography after a long career of writing. His blindstamp is on the bottom right corner.