Description: A gorgeous American Modernist industrial maritime view from artist/lithographer Richard Florsheim (1916-1979). This lithograph is titled "Buoy", dates from 1968 and is an extremely powerful mid-century abstracted view of a sea buoy set against the backdrop of a heavily smoked sky above an industrialized shoreline, it is likely inspired by the Lake Michigan shore around East Chicago. The lithograph was published by Associated American Artists and printed at the Mourlot Press in Paris. Good size, the image measures 18 1/8 x 13 7/8 inches, sheet size is approx. 20 x 16 inches with a deckle edge at bottom. It is hand signed in pencil and numbered by the artist and is printed in black ink on watermarked Arches wove paper. Has a little toning towards the edges, but no tape residue or mat lines, it is in very good condition, does not appear to have ever been framed. Florsheim has work included in the permanent collections of: the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, among many others as well as works in sixteen foreign museums. Richard Aberle Florsheim (1916-1979), a Chicago native and active as a printmaker, painter, and sculptor in Chicago, Milwaukee, Provincetown, Woodstock, and New York. He is known for his dramatic semi-abstracted views of cities, industry and progress. He was assistant director of the Arts Center Association in Chicago, 1951-52, 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. Florsheim was a member of the National Academy of Design, the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Chicago Society of Artists and the Provincetown Art Association where he served as Trustee and Vice President from 1962 to 1971. Awards include; the Art Institute of Chicago Award (1946), the Pennell Fund Award (1950) and the Library of Congress Award (1956).
Price: 165 USD
Location: Spring Hill, Florida
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Artist: Richard Florsheim
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Signed: Yes
Date of Creation: 1950-1969
Material: Ink, Paper
Region of Origin: Illinois, USA
Original/Licensed Reprint: Limited Edition Print
Subject: Chicago, Landscape
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1968
Style: Abstract, Modernism
Theme: Industrial
Original/Reproduction: Original
Features: 1st Edition, Limited Edition, Numbered, Signed
Production Technique: Lithograph
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Time Period Produced: 1960-1969
