Signed artist proof in pencil with title in lower margin, as well as
initialed in the block. Image size is 7 in. x 5 in. on full sheet with margins,
cream thin vellum, 10 1/2 in. x 8 3/8 in. Mild foxing. Light toning from
previous matting. Framed in thin wood frame. WPA era work-based on a dock
scene, this print is the basis for a similar study done in silkscreen called
River and Clouds of 1941, at the Illinois State Museum. From the Hilda Diamond Armin Estate.
Roumanian-American artist, Chicago modernist. Born in Radautz, Roumania (now part of Austria), Emil Armin settled in Chicago, Illinois in 1905 and became an oil painter, printmaker and sculptor in wood. He studied at the Chicago Art Institute with J. Wellington Reynolds, George Bellows and Randall Davey and spent time painting and carving in New Mexico, Mexico, the Indiana Dunes, and Maine. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920. He exhibited in galleries in Chicago and joined the WPA program in the 1930s as an easel painter. He lived in the Hyde Park artists colony near the Univ. of Chicago until his death. His work is many public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington DC. |
