George Raab

The Farmer

1936

9.25 x 12 inches (sheet), 8.75 x 12 inches (block) Linoleum block print on laid paper Framed 16 x 18.88 in Signed to lower margin

This piece is an original linoleum block print created and printed by George Raab. The lower margin is titled and signed by the artist in graphite. The lower left has the title. The ...

"Meditation" is an original linoleum print by Schomer Lichtner, signed in the lower right hand corner. It features a man in the middle of a project, in quiet meditation. Image: 6" x 8" Framed: 14.5" x 14.37" Lichtner and his wife, Ruth Grotenrath (1912-1988), are celebrated as Milwaukee’s first couple of painting and are regarded as major Wisconsin artists. Lichtner’s impressive production, perseverance, longevity, and positive approach to his life and art made him and his work distinctive and much loved by his many admirers. His work is currently represented in collections at the Milwaukee Art Museum, the John Michael Kohler Art Center, the West Bend Museum, and in the collections of many individuals. Books on the lives and art work of both Lichtner and Grotenrath are in progress and it is anticipated that they will be published next year. Recipient of the 2006 Wisconsin Visual Artist Lifetime Achievement Award The late Milwaukee artists, Schomer Lichtner and Ruth Grotenrath, created original silkscreen prints as a part of their Christmas celebration starting in the 1940's. The subjects and colors varied from year to year but they laboriously printed these little gems themselves. Ruth Grotenrath, 1912-1988, and her husband, Schomer Lichtner, (1905-2006), are celebrated as Milwaukee’s first couple of painting and are regarded as major Wisconsin artists. From the outset, Lichtner and Grotenrath were determined to become full-time artists. Ruth Grotenrath and Schomer Lichtner began their careers by creating numerous murals for the WPA (Work Projects Administration), primarily post offices. A wonderful example can be seen in the Sheboygan, Wisconsin post office. Even during the Great Depression they worked producing Post Office murals under the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts (SFA). According to James Auer, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel art critic, "As art and economic trends evolved, the couple’s palettes brightened and warmed. Both fell under the spell of the Mexican social realists, notably Diego Rivera, and modernists such as Matisse and Dufy. The couple’s perspective changed further after they became friends with philosopher Alan Watts...

"Market Scene" is an original color lithograph by Angelika Thusius. It depicts three women at a market. Thusius uses contour lines and bright oranges and yellows to create this litho...

Signed to the lower right. Presented in a slim wooden frame. On board.

More a wood engraving rather than a woodcut, Glintenkamp's Farmyard scene was given all the care and detail of the artist's more complex images. It is signed and numbered in pencil. ...

Il fattore is an original modern artwork realized in the 1920s by Giuseppe Viviani (Agnano, San Giuliano Terme, 1898 – Pisa, 1965). Original B/W Etching on paper. Numbered on the ...

Farmers is a woodcut print on paper realized in the Early 20th Century by Raphael Drouart (1884-1972). The artwork is in good conditions on passepartout: 39 x 30 cm The artwork rep...