A large woodcut print — a second confirmed woodcut alongside the Hardcat (605) — in which a dramatically simplified insect form fills the picture field in solid black against the pale paper ground. The subject appears to be a grasshopper, cricket, or similar orthopteran insect: a large oval body mass at right, a small round head at center, and radiating legs that extend outward in multiple directions. The white lines cutting through the black masses are the woodcut's vocabulary — the knife or gouge marks that removed wood to create the white spaces within the black print surface.
The formal language is boldly Expressionist: large black masses, white lines within them that suggest the insect's segmentation and anatomy without describing it naturalistically. The legs are the most dramatic element — long, angular, extending to the edges of the composition in multiple directions, giving the print its energy and its sense of arrested motion.
The signature "Sidney T. Cothran Jr." is visible at lower right — the full formal signature, confirming this as a work Sidney valued as complete. The print's size is substantial — this is not a small study but a large statement.
Two woodcuts now confirmed in the collection: the Hardcat (605, edition of 6) and this insect. Both work in the same formal language — black masses, white drawn lines, bold simplified forms. Sidney had a print vocabulary distinct from his drawing and painting vocabularies, and it was a powerful one.