William Seltzer Rice (1873-1963) was born in Pennsylvania but moved to Northern California in 1900, when the region's Arts & Crafts movement was flowering. A talented and prolific watercolorist, Rice taught at various schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland--a center for the movement. He became devoted to block printing because compared with original watercolors, prints better suited the Arts & Crafts ethos of making artwork available to a wide audience at modest cost. Unlike many printmakers, Rice designed, carved, and printed the blocks all himself. The landscapes of Northern California--from the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific--proved excellent raw materials for his creativity, and his prints today can be found in public and private collections worldwide.This set includes twenty assorted full-color 5" x 7" blank note cards (five each of four styles) with envelopes and decorative box.