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Ralph Fletcher Seymour – Artist, Book Publisher, Teacher, Etcher, Active Club Participant – An Early 20th Century Chicago “Renaissance Man”

April 3, 2020 19 Comments

By Jim Rosenthal The “Renaissance Man” is defined as someone who is knowledgeable, educated and proficient in a wide array of fields. The best example is Leonardo da Vinci. The best example in Chicago for the first half of the 20th Century was Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Seymour was a man of many talents. He was […]

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Agnes Miller Parker, Alfred Fowler and the Woodcut Society in 1941

January 6, 2018 2 Comments

One of the joys of collecting are the unexpected – but fascinating – historical and artistic surprises that sometimes accompany a purchase.  A case in point is a wood-engraving I purchased several months ago by Agnes Miller Parker.  The piece, “Fox”, was the 1941 Presentation Print of an organization by the name of  The Woodcut […]

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The Prairie Print Makers Presentation Prints – Over Three Decades of Print Making Excellence

January 17, 2016 10 Comments

The Prairie Print Makers was organized in Wichita, Kansas in 1930 with ten charter members: Lloyd Foltz, Arthur W. Hall, Norma Bassett Hall, C. A. Seward, Birger Sandzen, Charles M. Capps, Edmund Kopietz, Herschel Logan, Clarence A. Hotvedt and Leo Courtney William Dickerson was invited to join and was elected as the first Artist Member […]

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A Collector’s Must Read – “Small Victories” by Dave H. Williams

September 12, 2015 Leave a Comment

“Small Victories: One Couple’s Surprising Adventures Building an Unrivaled Collection of American Prints” by Dave Williams (Boston: David R. Godine, 2015) is a great read for any collector.  The book chronicles the “small victories” of Dave and Reba Williams in collecting over six thousand prints.   It is not a book about art although there […]

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