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HENRI GILBERT DE KRUIF (1882-1944)
Untitled. Lithograph, 1932. 184x298 mm; 7¼x11¾ inches, full margins. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil at lower margin. Numbered 134 from an edition of 50. Printed by Paul Roeher, Los Angeles, CA.
Henri Gilbert De Kruif was a painter, print maker, and commercial artist. His early training was at the art Institute of Chicago followed by the Art Students League where he honed his skills under the tutelage of renowned American instructors such as F. Luis Mora, Reynolds Beal, and Frank DuMond. In 1911 De Kruif moves to California where he delves into modernism under the teachings of the great Synchromist painter, Stanton MacDonald wright. de Kruif was a member of the Group of Eight, which included artists Mabel Alvarez, Clarence Hinkle, John Hubbard Rich, Donna Schuster, E. Roscoe Shrader, Edouard Vysekal, and Luvena Buchanan Vyseka. Exhibitions of the Group of Eight were sporadic but they did have an exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum in 1927.
