BACKGROUND:
Richard
Florsheim was a painter, sculptor and graphics artist in
Chicago, Milwaukee, Provincetown and Woodstock, New York,
Born in Chicago, he was assistant director of the Arts
Center Association, 1951-52, and taught at the Layton School
of Art in Milwaukee from 1949 to 1950, and the Contemporary
Art Workshop in Chicago from 1952 to 1963. From 1965 to
1973, he was a board member of the Illinois Arts Council. He
studied at the University of Chicago. Florsheim became a
member of the National Academy of Design, the Society of
American Graphic Artists, the Provincetown Art Association,
which he served as Trustee and Vice President from 1962 to
1971, and the Chicago Society of Artists from 1947. He was a
contributing artist for Associated American
Artists.
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Richard
Aberle Florsheim
(1916-1979)
Original
Lithograph - 1963
"Inlet"
Original
stone lithograph in the crayon technique. Published by
Associated American Artists - 1963 - in an edition of
250.
Image
size: 13-7/8" x 9-7/8"
Sheet: 18" x 13-1/16"
See
background, below.
Pencil.
signed lower right:
Richard Florsheim
Strong
image. Original paper mat
Print
in Excellent Condition!
Paper mat has some staining.
$
85.
I-851-Z
The Associated
American Artists of New York was founded in the mid
1930's. They commissioned original graphic art from such
leading artists of the day as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart
Benton, Reginald Marsh and others. It published etchings and
lithographs into the 1960's as new contributing artists
included Jack Levine, Chaim Koppelman, Joseph Margulies,
James Kearns, Richard Florsheim, Irwin D. Hoffman and Sidney
Chafetz.
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