Beatrice Wood (1883-1998) was an acclaimed artist, best known for her work as a ceramicist and her involvement in founding the Dada Movement. While working in the Los Angeles art scene during the 1930s, she was introduced to master printer Lynton Kistler, who persuaded her to take up printmaking and gifted her a set of materials to learn lithography. She created "Operation" in 1932. This print is believed to represent her personal traumatic experience receiving a hysterectomy. Wood’s lithograph series were pure expressions of her wit as well as intimate views into her personal life
Fountain in the "Plaza de Armas," Chihuahua, Mexico; published by Wittick & Russell, New Albuquerque, N.M.; round stone fountain with water spouting out through sculpture in center; sculpture in center of fountain of a young child carrying a jug on it's head and arm wrapped around a duck/goose with wings outspread; cathedral in background