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Frank Fousek - Ohio Farm Scene

Ohio Farm Scene

Frank Fousek's original pastel drawing, "Ohio farm Scene" was created around 1940. While Frank Daniel Fousek was a fine artist of animal and figure studies much of his work dealt with his love of nature and American landscape scenes. Many of his prints, drawings and paintings depict the Ohio countryside and the farming areas around Cleveland. With its skilled use of space, tonal variations and colors, "Ohio Farm Scene" is a great example of his art in this area. This original pastel drawing is drawn upon wove paper and with full margins and is signed by Frank Fousek along the lower right margin.
 
Title: Ohio Farm Scene
Artist: Fousek, Frank Daniel 'Frank Fousek' (Ohio, 1913 - 1979)
Date: c. 1940
Medium: Original Pastel Drawing
Note: Frank Daniel Fousek 'Frank Fousek': An important Ohio printmaker and painter of the 1930's and 1940's, Frank Daniel Fousek studied at the Cleveland School of Art and the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute, Cleveland. He was strongly associated with the Cleveland Chapter of the Works Progress Administration, a key element of President Roosevelt's 'New Deal', which actively supported artists throughout the country during the economic hard times of the Great Depression. The Cleveland W.P.A. Graphics Art Workshop began operation in 1935 and continued to 1943. It was considered one of the five best centers for original prints and its artists included Leroy Flint, Russell Limbach, Dorothy Rutka, Sheffield Kagy, Kalman Kubinyi and Frank Fousek. Kubinyi was in charge of the project until 1939, when Frank Fousek assumed control.
  Most of Frank Fousek's catalogued prints* were commissioned by the Works Progress Administration. Fousek created lithographs, aquatints and etchings, both in black and white and in colors. During this time his art was regularly exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Public Library as well as in national shows at such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Frank Fousek was also awarded First Prize for an aquatint at the Cleveland Museum of Art Show, in 1942. Today, a large representative collection of his etchings and lithographs are housed in Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. His prints and paintings are also found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian Institute.
  Frank Daniel Fousek's work of art dealt animals, nature and American landscape scenes. Many of his prints, drawings and paintings depict the Ohio countryside and the farming areas around Cleveland. With its skilled use of space, tonal variations and colors, "Ohio Farm Scene" is a great example of his art in this area.
Reference: * Rachel Davis, Frank Daniel Fousek, Prints and Paintings from the WPA Era, Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Shaker Heights, Ohio, 1995.
Size: 11 1/2 X 15 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
  Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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  Ohio Farm Scene framed pastel drawing by Frank Daniel Fousek
Condition: Drawn upon wove paper and with full margins. Signed by Frank Fousek along the lower right margin. Apart from one slight smudge in the sky to the upper left Ohio Farm Scene is in very good condition throughout and represents a prime example of the landscape art of Frank Daniel Fousek 'Frank Fousek'.
Subject: Daniel Fousek, Frank Fousek, Ohio Farm Scene, American Landscapes, Original Drawings, Works Progress Administration, Ohio artist.
Price: Sold - The price is no longer available.
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Original Pastel Drawing by the American artist, Frank Daniel Fousek 'Frank Fousek'.

Ohio Farm Scene Original Drawing by the American artist Frank Daniel Fousek also listed as Frank Fousek
Ohio Farm Scene

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Frank Daniel Fousek 'Frank Fousek' (Ohio, 1913 - 1979)
# Image Title & Artist Medium Date Notes -
01- Church Night by Frank Fousek Church Night by the American artist, Frank Fousek Original Drawing 1937 Signed dated and titled in pencil by Frank Fousek along the lower margin.  
02.- Ohio Farm Scene by Frank Fousek Ohio Farm Scene by the American artist, Frank Fousek Original Pastel Drawing c. 1940 Signed by Frank Fousek along the lower right margin. Sold

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On the contrary most areas of the entertainment industries thrived. The art of Kenneth Hartwell is an excellent example. His lithographs of circus acrobats, jugglers and clowns and of the music, dancing and comedy of the Burlesque shows are worlds into themselves. Gazing at his imagery the viewer is granted a temporary reprieve from the real world.

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American Art of the Depression Era dating from 1930 to 1945 (Art of The Print / www.artoftheprint.com - Artist Index: K to P): Even in a Depression the sense of a continuation of normal activities persists. In Joseph Margulies, New England Granny the subject does exactly what grannies do best as she contentedly sits in her rocker, sewing. Philip Parsons depicts a joyful family reunion in Home for Christmas and Henry Pitz depicts the dignity of work in his monumental art deco style in both Maine Fisherman and Man Against the Sky.

Purely by alphabetical accident, page 3 also contains two of my favorite night scenes: Alan Lewis’ delightful color woodcut, Swinging the Gate and Martin Lewis’ renowned Night in New York. This famous etching was published by the Chicago Society of Etchers in 1932.

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