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CHET LA MORE Miners.
Color woodcut, 1935-43. 302x410 mm; 11 5/8x16 1/8 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce woodcut.
La More (1908-1980) was born in Dane County, Wisconsin. He studied at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin. For a time he was the editor of the Baltimore Art Association magazine. In the 1930s he was an artist in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project Graphic Arts Project. He was also a member of the National Coordinating Committee of the Artists Union.
In 1942, La More located in Buffalo where he taught at the University of Buffalo. He then served in the armed forces in Europe during World War II. He returned to teaching at Buffalo before locating to Ann Arbor to teach at the University of Michigan in 1947. He taught at Michigan until his retirement in 1974.
