Screenprint on matte woven paper with uneven edge along the top, signed lower right Riva Helfond and titled lower right "Sunium". There are old pieces of tape in the top corners as well as a couple of minor spots, which do not affect the image.

The paper size is 9 x 12, the image size is approximately 7 x 9 1/2. 

Sunium (or Sounion) is the southernmost point of Attica in Greece and was an important religious sanctuary sacred to the gods  Poseidon and Athena. 

Helfond was born in Brooklyn and trained at the School of Industrial Art and at the Art Students League, where she was taught printmaking by Harry Sternberg and painting with William von Schlegel, Morris Kantor and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who was also a printmaker. In 1933 Helfond began to teach, first at the College Art Association Program and then, from 1936 to 1938, at the Harlem Art Center, New York, where her students included Robert Blackburn and Ronald Joseph. From 1938 to 1941 she was on the staff of the Graphic Arts Division of the New York City WPA/FAP, where she worked in lithography with Louis Lozowick and Jacob Kainen. She also was a pioneer of the screenprint and worked in the Silk Screen Unit under Anthony Velonis with Elizabeth Olds and Harry Gottlieb.

In 1936 Helfond and her fiancé, the sculptor Bill Barrett, whom she had met at the Art Students League and later married, were invited by Harry Sternberg to join him and Blanche Grambs and Hugh Lefty' Miller on a trip to the mining area of Lanceford, Pennsylvania. The experience inspired an important series of social realist lithographs, drawings and watercolours on coal miners and their life.

Helfond left the WPA/FAP in 1941 but, unlike Grambs, she continued to make prints. In the 1940s and 1950s her work moved from Social Realism towards abstraction. In 1964 she taught an advanced printmaking course at New York University, and from 1980 she was on the teaching staff at Union County College, Plainfield, New Jersey. She remained active as a printmaker, and in 1991 one of her late monotypes was awarded a prize by the Society of American Graphic Artists. In 1999 Union County College staged a retrospective of seven decades of her printmaking. The checklist published by the Susan Teller Gallery records 220 prints made by Helfond between 1932 and 1994.

The Plainfield Public Library, Plainfield, New Jersey, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Museum of Modern Art, British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, have holdings of her prints in their collections.