Chet La More Art

American, 1908-1980

Chet La More was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker and educator. He was born in 1908, in Dane County, Wisconsin and grew up in Madison. He studied briefly at the Layton School of Art, before receiving instruction from Arthur Colt, a student of Charles Hawthorne. He attended the University of Wisconsin, earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art history and criticism, in 1932. La More opened his studio in Madison, where he focused on traditionally French-influenced portraits and figures. He was unable to make a living with his art in Madison and quickly realized how isolated he was from contemporary art movements. In 1933, he left Madison to travel to Baltimore, an intended stop, before settling in New York. He remained in Baltimore for three years, during which time, he met his wife. He picked up an assortment of odd jobs, including in late 1933, when he began working on art projects, under the Public Works program. He continued creating public works art projects and was hired as a mural painter, under the Treasury Relief Art Project (TRAP). In 1936, he moved to New York and continued to work on various projects under TRAP. He also became an active participant in the Artists’ Union. In 1939, La More had an exhibition at the prestigious Perl Gallery (New York). He relocated again, in 1942, this time to Buffalo, where he taught at the Albright Art School. He taught for one year, fought in the U.S. Army for two years and returned to Buffalo to teach for two more years. In 1947, he left Buffalo and settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There, he worked as a professor in art at the University of Michigan, until 1974. His works have been exhibited at several institutions throughout his career, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Carnegie Institute and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chet La More died in 1980.

Artist: Chet La More

Chet La MoreNON COMBATANTS - Actual WPA /FAP print with WPA stamp!, c 1937

$700

NON COMBATANTS - Actual WPA /FAP print with WPA stamp!

By Chet La More

Located in Santa Monica, CA

CHET LA MORE (1908 – 1980) NON COMBATANTS c. 1937 Lithograph, signed and titled in pencil. Image 10 ½ x 14 3/8”, sheet 12 3/8 x 15 7/8. With the FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC - WPA stam...

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1930s American Modern Chet La More Art

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Lithograph

Howard Norton Cook'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism, 1931

$12,000

H 13.32 in W 10.38 in

'Financial District', New York City — American Modernism

By Howard Norton Cook

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Howard Cook, 'Financial District', lithograph, 1931, edition 75, Duffy 155. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 5 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 inches (338 x 264 mm); sheet size 23 x 16 inches (584 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed. Literature: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987. Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker. Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest. Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937. He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit...

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1930s American Modern Chet La More Art

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Lithograph

$750

H 13.63 in W 10.38 in

'Judgment of Souls' — Surrealist Fantasy

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Zena Kavin, 'Judgment of Souls', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '17/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full marg...

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1930s American Modern Chet La More Art

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Lithograph

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Chet La MoreBreaker Slope (the landscape construction by a coal mining operation / WPA era), 1937

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H 15.5 in W 22.5 in

Breaker Slope (the landscape construction by a coal mining operation / WPA era)

By Chet La More

Located in New Orleans, LA

A unique WPA era ink wash of the breaker slope at the construction site of a coal mine Chet La More was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and educator. He was born in 1908...

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1930s American Modern Chet La More Art

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Ink

Chet La MoreMother of Invention, 1937

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H 14 in W 21 in

Mother of Invention

By Chet La More

Located in New Orleans, LA

A unique ink wash painting created in 1937 Chet La More was an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and educator. He was born in 1908 in Dane County, Wisconsin and grew up in Mad...

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1930s American Modern Chet La More Art

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Ink

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