Arthur Negus Fuller (1879-1945) reveled in the beauty of the hills of Western Massachusetts and painted them often. This is one of only a few of his monotypes, which are created by painting on a plate and then printing onto paper. While Fuller sometimes produced up to 75 prints in an edition of his etchings, only one print could be made from a monotype. Arthur was the youngest son of George and Agnes (Higginson) Fuller of Deerfield, Massachusetts. In 1915, he purchased the Little Brown House and studio barn on Albany Road and began printing monotypes. In 1919, he bought a printing press with his brother, Henry, for their shared Boston studio and in 1920, they bought a second press for their studio at the Little Brown House and Arthur began producing intaglio etchings. These are colored etchings printed with a single pass through the press. The artist first inked the lines on a copper plate, wiped off the excess, then lightly daubed ink where he wanted color, using the tip of a twisted cloth. Consequently, each intaglio print in an edition is slightly differently from the next.