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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Provincetown Wharf
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Le Chateau Gallery:
| A twentieth-century American printmaker, painter, sculptor, educator and writer, Richard Florsheim first studied at the University of Chicago before going to New York to study at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Metropolitan Museum, under Aaron Bohrod. His education was completed in Paris at the Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne.
Florsheim gained recognition in the late 1930's when he first began exhibiting his art. Venues included the Salon des Refuses, Paris; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Los Angeles County Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Richard Florsheim was a full member of the American Graphic Artists, the Audubon Artists, the Artists Equity Association and the National Academy of Design. During his career he received the Art Institute of Chicago Award (1946), the Pennell Fund Award (1950) and the Library of Congress Award (1956).
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Biography from AskART:
| The following was compiled and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher of Laguna Woods, California: Richard Florsheim was born on October 25, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a painfully shy child, channelling all his energies into straight-A scholarship and crude, gloomy art. His father reluctantly helped him get an art education in Europe during the 1930s, but before World War II Florsheim managed to sell just one picture
In the Navy during the war, Florsheim discovered in himself an unexpected streak of scientific acumen. He developed a radar plane-spotting technique that is still considered basic. But at the end of the war, he was still faced with many problems in his art. He buckled down to the backbreaking work schedule and exhibited only on occasion. Happily married and with an art teaching job to help make ends meet, he still felt and painted misery. But gradually the gloom lifted from his work and he began to sell until there came a time when everything he painted was snapped up. He died in 1979.
Sources include:
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, 1986-7
Time Magazine, November 23, 1959.
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Biography from AskART:
| Active as a painter, sculptor and graphics artist in Chicago, Milwaukee, Provincetown and Woodstock, New York, Richard Florsheim was born in Chicago. There 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.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk (Editor), Who Was Who in American Art
Louise Dunn Yochim, Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists |
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