Renate Scheer Kalkofen Mid-Century Ab Ex Print "Still Life," 1962, ed. 5, Purples Froebel design blue and orange

blue and orange

And what a terrific bull it is

with red inside the mouth as the perfect final touch

and might be inclined to adopt a couple of actual dogs who bear their likeness

An aesthetically stunning object

Renate Scheer Kalkofen Mid-Century Ab Ex Print "Still Life," 1962, ed. 5, Purples Froebel design blue and orangeThere is not a whole lot out there about Renate Scheer Kalkofen (1935 2013) who created this stunner of a print in 1962, as well as several others I am listing from around the same time. I do know she was a graduate of Tufts University and spent much of her life in the nearby Boston suburb of Belmont, where there are records of her exhibiting from the 1960s and 70s all the way through 2011. And I know from the dealer I purchased the prints from that