Surrealistic Etching Attributed to Robert Lohman

Item Details

Charcoal on paper

An etching on paper attributed to noted artist Robert Lohman, c. 1970s. This etching features four nude male figures in a surrealist landscape, presumably in the forest under a tree. Unsigned and unframed.

Robert Lohman (American; 1919 – 2001) was a sculptor and painter who worked in a variety of media including wood, plaster, oil paint, watercolor, ceramics and bronze. He studied at the John Herron Art Institute and completed graduate degrees at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Yale University. His teachers included Maija Grotell and Gaetano Cecere. He assisted Carl Milles at Cranbrook before becoming Director of Fine Arts there from 1947-49. He also taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the Indianapolis Art League for 10 years. Among his many accomplishments as an artist, he designed the medal for the Indy 500 Pacemaker Club, 1965, and the medal to represent the US at the Exposition Internationale de la Medaille in Athens, 1966.

Condition

-some roughness to edges

Dimensions

-approximate size of piece
-image is approximately 12.00″ × 8.75″

Item #

17DAL221-036