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accession number: 1938.274
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Ohio Farmer, c. 1938. Walter DuBois Richards (American, 1907–2006). Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1938.274
title: Ohio Farmer
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creation date: c. 1938
creation date earliest: 1933
creation date latest: 1938
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creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: lithograph
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
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CREATORS
* Walter DuBois Richards (American, 1907–2006) - artist
Walter Dubois Richards is best known for his lithographs of the 1930s and 1940s, primarily classical, realist images of the Amer can scene. Born in Penfield, Ohio, he was raised in Rocky River, just west of Cleveland. He studied with Henry Keller, Paul Travis, and Carl Gaertner at the Cleveland School of Art, graduating in 1930. He accepted a commercial art job with the Sundblom Art Group in Chi go in 1930. In 1931 he returned to Cleveland and worked at Tranquillini Advertising Art Studios, where he met Stevan Dohanos, who became a lifelong colleague and friend. In 1932 Richards and Dohanos spent a summer in Eastport, Maine, at the George Pearce Ennis School, where they studied lithography with Stow Wengenroth. In 1936 Richards joined Dohanos in New York City, where they worked together again in the Charles E. Cooper Studios. Practicing free-lance work exclusively, Richards moved to Connecticut. He has done commercial work for companies such as Anheuser-Busch, Campbell’s Soup, Chrysler, General Electric, and Standard Oil. He designed more than 40 commemorative postage stamps and illustrated several books. He also served as the official history painter for the U.S. Air Force, traveling to Vietnam in the mid-1960s. His illustrations have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Colliers, American Legion, Life, Look, and Fortune magazines. He has exhibited his works in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1930s) as well as in exhibitions in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia. He was a director of the Cleveland Print Makers. In 1950 he established the Fairfield Watercolor Group, an organization of artists and illustrators who met regularly to practice and discuss the fine arts.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 235
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The May Show: 20th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
opening date: 1938-05-04T04:00:00
The May Show: 20th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 4-June 12, 1938).
title: May Show Prints: Purchases for 1936-1938
opening date: 1938-11-09T05:00:00
May Show Prints: Purchases for 1936-1938. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 4, 1938).
title: Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946
opening date: 1996-05-19T04:00:00
Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Walter DuBois Richards Entry Card to 1938 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS04838
Robinson, William H., et. al. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
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