SAMUEL BRECHER 1897-1982 Original SIGNED Limited Edition Lithograph 1950s WPA

Description: Artist: SAMUEL BRECHER (American, 1897 - 1982) Title: "Spring Fantasia" - 1953 - The American ArtistMedium: Original Lithograph on colored laid paperSignature: Signed in the plateEdition: Limited Edition of 2000, not individually numberedSize: About 12 x 9 inchesPrinter: Artist Equity Funds, Inc.Publisher: Artist Equity AssociationNotes: Part of the Improvisations Portfolio (for the Spring Fantasia Masquerade Ball in New York) published by the Artist Equity Association. The portfolio consisted of advertisements for local New York City businesses where each advertisement was an original lithograph: "Each page was designed by the artist directly on the litho plate, thus making this a collection of original lithographs."This Original Lithograph was produced for an annual art event in the 1950's for local businesses and major corporations largely based in New York. Historically important for corporate archivists, these are extremely rare to locate and are virtually unseen individually. The original lithographs were produced in only one edition, and included just 2,000. These lithographs are perhaps the most unique, rare, important advertising collectibles that exist for businesses and corporations.About the Artist: Painter and educator Samuel Becher was born in 1897 in Boryslaw, then a part of Austria and now a part of Poland. His family immigrated to the United States in 1910, settling in New York. Becher graduated from Cooper Union in 1921 and then continued his studies at the National Academy of Design (1921 - 1924) and provately with Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He established himself as a painter of cityscapes and coastal Maine and Cape Cod scenes before turning his attention to clowns, in the vein of Cortland Butterfield, Walter Kuhn and Georges Rouault. A show of clown paintings by Becher, Kuhn, Rouault, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Picasso was shown in San Francisco in 1942. In addition to his art career he taught at the WPA from 1933 - '38, and from 1946 until his retirement in 1974 he taught drawing and painting at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. He was a member of the Audubon Artists, Allied Artists, National Society of Casein Painter, and the New Jersey Painters and Sculptors Society. Becher was represented by the Kraushaar Gallery, the ACA Gllery, the Hudson walker Gallery, and the Merrill Gallery, among others. His work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), the Walker Art Center (MN), the Newark Museum of Art (NJ), Florida Southern College (FL); Tel Aviv Museum and Ein Harod Museum, Israel.

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