William Grauer (American, 1896-1985), Suspension Bridge with Ship

oil on canvas, March 1965, signed at lower right, inscribed to verso, presented in the likely original frame.
Frame dimensions 19 1/4 x 36 1/8 in.
William Grauer was a painter, muralist and art teacher active in Cleveland, Ohio for nearly 60 years. Born in Philadelphia, he graduated from the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in 1914 and saw service in France during World War I. Coming to Cleveland as a free-lance artist in 1927, he married Natalie Eynon (1888-1955), a fellow native Philadelphian and artist with whose career his own became intertwined.

In 1932, Grauer was invited to contribute murals to the President's Cottage at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. He and his wife later returned to found and co-direct the Old White Art Colony, School and Gallery in the summers from 1934-1940. During the same period they also started the art department at Cleveland College of Western Reserve University. Grauer painted murals for the West Virginia exhibitions in both the Chicago Century of Progress (1933) and the New York World's Fair (1939).
From the Collection of Michael Kim, Richmond, Virginia
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Surface grime; minor stable craquelure; two small pinholes in lower left quadrant; small paint flake in upper left quadrant; some rubbing to frame.