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Richard FlorsheimCityscape Lithograph Chicago Modernist
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Genre: Other Subject: Landscape Medium: lithograph Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions with Frame: 12.75 X 15.75 The artist Richard Florsheim depicts a Seascape using local colors, emphasizing on perspective, and the desolate marine scene where the only sign of civilization is the dock. Richard Aberle Florsheim was born 1916, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the Chicago Latin School (1923–34), and the University of Chicago (1935-36), and studied in New York with Aaron Bohrod (1934–35). independent study in France, Italy, central Europe, and the Near East (1936–38). In France he met artist Emile Bernard, and spent time in his studio and visiting museums. He exhibited in France in the late 1930s with the Salon des Refusés, and the Musée du Jeu de Paume honored him by purchasing one of his paintings. He began working in lithography in 1940 and was included in a two-man show at Quest Gallery, Chicago. In 1942, Florsheim enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the Pacific theater as a cartographer and obtained patents for his radar plane-spotting technique. After the war, he resumed his artistic career, exhibiting widely. He attended the University of Chicago as a freshman, He avoided attending one of the best art schools of the time, the Art Institute of Chicago, preferring not to be affiliated with any group or art movement. His father was adamant that he pursue a university education but with the assistance of one of Richard's professors, his father was persuaded to allow his son a much desired year in Europe. By that time, Florsheim had had several small exhibitions of his work in Chicago. While in Paris and other European cities, Florsheim studied the work of the masters including José Clemente Orozco, Honoré Daumier and Käthe Kollwitz, claiming in later years that they were his only teachers. Upon his return from abroad Florsheim served as an assistant to the American painter Aaron Bohrod for a while. As Florsheim established himself in New York and his paintings became widely recognized. ACA, his major gallery, considered him to be their star. In the 1950s and 1960s, as a printmaker, he sold more graphics than any other artist represented by the AAA (Associated American Artists) Gallery. His bright expressionist paintings, images of Mexican villages and the desert, were largely influenced by a stay in Mexico and the American southwest. As a mature artist, Florsheim's paintings and graphics were concerned with refracted light in landscapes, scenes of industry and night-time cities. Among his best known images are views of the Chicago skyline at night and the bright yellow and orange flames from steel mills seen against dark backgrounds. The lyrical works reflecting his summer stays in Provincetown were also concerned with the refraction and distortion of light. Those works showed sailboats, marshes and surf set against elegant clouds and reflections on the sea. The Art Institute of Chicago; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit Institute of Arts; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany; La Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo d'Art Moderna, Milan, Italy; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Syracuse University, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut own Richard Florsheim works. He helped found the Artists’ League of the Midwest with Artists’ Equity Association of New York, later becoming president of National Equity. In 1947–51, he exhibited at Milwaukee Art Institute and mounted two shows at Luyber Galleries, New York. He also taught at King-Smith School in Washington, DC, and Layton School of Art, Milwaukee (1949–50). Florsheim had a summer home in Provincetown, MA, and was a trustee and honorary vice president of Provincetown Art Association. In 1965 he was appointed to the Illinois State Art Council. He was also a member of the Audubon Artists and Society of American Graphic Artists. He died in 1979.Details
- CreatorRichard Florsheim (1905-1979, American)
- DimensionsHeight: 12.75 in. (32.39 cm)Width: 15.75 in. (40.01 cm)
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- Conditionminor wear.
- Gallery LocationBal Harbour, FL
- Reference Number1stDibs: LU3823184193
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