Still Life in Purple With Jug and Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928

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Jug and Still Life in Purple with Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928
Oil on Linen of an urn with … more Jug and Still Life in Purple with Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928
Oil on Linen of an urn with a bowl and apples in a Purple background by Alvin R. Raffel (American, 1905-1987.) Linen is on plywood but we can re-stretch on stretcher bars. Some loss to linen edges at corners out of sight of the painting will be re-lined.
Alvin Robert Raffel born on December 25, 1905 in Dayton, Ohio. Son of Herman John and Pauline Louise (Kromann) Raffel. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and a BA in fine arts in 1933 at the Artist Institute of Chicago under F. DeForest Schook. He was a lithographer for Gartner & Bender in Chicago from 1925 until 1936.
Lived in Dayton, Ohio in 1939 as a lithographer for Reynolds & Reynolds. Instructor of watercolor painting at Centerville High School and an Instructor of drawing and painting at Dayton Art Institute.
Exhibited:
Ohio Annual, Dayton Art Institute: 1933, 1934-45
(1945, First Purchase Prize)

Cincinnati Annual, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, 1945

Pepsi-Cola, 1945
Carnegie Annual, Pittsburgh, PA, 1946-48

Magnificent Mile Exhibit, Chicago, IL, 1955

Provincetown Art Festival, MA, 1958

Member of:
American Association of University Professors
Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors less