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INCREASE ROBINSON (LISTED ARTIST 1890 - ?). CIRCA LATE 1940'S, VIEW FROM AMALFI DRIVE, 26" x 26" sight size mixed media and collage (framed size: 33-1/2" x 33-1/2") signed lower left. Has no glass. Price of over 50 years ago was $450 per label on back. This biography from the Archives of AskART: The following is from Nancy Lorance Flannery, webmistress of thesite, . Flannery is trying to collect information on artists known by Increase Robinson, especially in the Midwest.Increase Robinson was born Josephine Dorothea Reichmann in Chicago, IL on April 2, 1890 to Frank Joseph Reichmann, a transportation official, and Josephine Lemos, an artist in a long line of artists.Robinson was a graduate of Hyde Park High School, and was the Vice President of her high school class of 1909. She took the name Increase Robinson after the death of her first husband, Philip Increase Robinson. She was a member of the Chicago Art Club and the Chicago Society of Arts. She worked as a painter, teacher, lecturer, gallery owner, and State Director of the Federal Art Project in Illinois between 1933 and 1938. She had an exhibition of art at the 1933/34 Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair. However, her greatest public recognition came from her work with the WPA. Controversial and autocratic during her years on the FAP [Federal Art Project], she was the read more
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