"George Washington Carver, Famous Scientist" by Felix Benjamin Duncan Gaines (Alabama, 1908-1991), original etching done in a style Gaines called "Psycho Beautigraph," signed in plate and copyrighted 1946, framed - 18 1/2" x 23 1/2" 
 
Unfortunately, little is known about Felix Benjamin Gaines.  What is known is that Gaines was from Birmingham, he was a high school art teacher and he painted two murals in an African American community center located in Selma, AL, which was funded by the WPA Federal Art Project. The murals were later moved to the Old Depot Museum in Selma, where they still can been seen today.  It's also known that Gaines referrred to himself as a "dream artist," because he often painted the "beautiful visions" that came to him while he slept.  
 
The exact meaning of "psycho beautigraph" seems to be known only to Gaines himself.  In reference to this lithograph portriat of Carver, it's been speculated that "psycho" may refer "to the psychology of the portrait's sensitive investigation of character ... [t]he background texture of the image resembles the cross-hatched fibers of a peanut shell, one of Carver's primary subjects for his experiments, and Gaines described some of his portraits using the term 'peanut etching.'"  It is possible that Gaines intended to distribute Carver print portriats to black communites, schools and churches as a way of encouraging young black students to seek higher education.