LITHOGRAPHS BY RICHARD FLORSHEIM, 1962-1978

Richard Florsheim was born in Chicago in 1916. After attending the Chicago Latin School he studied art with Kenneth Shopen and Aaron Bohrod. Largely self-taught as an artist, he created his first etchings while at the University of Chicago and began working in lithography in 1940. He held his first one-man show in 1935 and had more than 100 exhibitions, including two at The Art Institute of Chicago. His work is held in collections throughout the world, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the National Gallery, Washington, DC. Mr. Florsheim died in 1979. Edward Barry, writing in the Chicago Tribune Magazine, November 1970, noted that "Florsheim responds strongly to such ordinary things as oil derricks, rolling mills, airports and the tangled pattern of cities. . . . If he has a special area of interest it is night and the city. . . ." A major volume on his work, Richard Florsheim, The Artist and His Art, by August L. Freundlich, was published by A.S. Barnes and Company in 1976.

Abstract images of various subjects, including the lakefront, steel mills, buildings (including the John Hancock Tower), and skyline views. Titles and dates listed below.

Gift of Richard A. Florsheim Art Fund, 1985.

1 Big John, 1973

2 Burnoff, 1962

3 Chicago Lakefront, 1974

4 Cityscape, 1978

5 Inner City, 1977

6 Lakeshore, 1973

7 Lights, 1963

8 Sleeping City, 1967

9 Steel Mills, 1962