Monday, December 18, 2017

A New Deal Winter & Christmas: "Walnut Hills Landscape"

Above: "Walnut Hills Landscape," a watercolor by Robert Fabe (1917-2004), created while he was in the New Deal's Section of Fine Arts. According to the Eisele Gallery of Fine Art, Fabe "was drafted into the United States Army, where he served for five years. He participated in the Battle of the Bulge and [the] D Day invasion in Europe. He was wounded twice while serving in Europe and then discharged in 1945," and then taught art at the University of Cincinnati from 1958 to 1987. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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