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This Raymer Society auction includes more than 140 works of art. Consigned to the auction are original works This Raymer Society auction includes more than 140 works of art. Consigned to the auction are original works by Lester Raymer, including 1 metal sculpture, 4 oil paintings, 3 ceramic works; tiles and uglies, 4 lino-cuts. Also up for auction will be 6 works by Birger Sandzen, including l7 lithographs, a lino-cut and dry point etching. In addition, there will be works from many Sanzden students, Prairie Print Makers, many Sanzden students, Kansas and Midwest, national and international artists. by Lester Raymer, including 1 metal sculpture, 4 oil paintings, 3 ceramic works; tiles and uglies, 4 lino-cuts. Also up for auction will be 6 works by Birger Sandzen, including l7 lithographs, a lino-cut and dry point etching. In addition, there will be works from many Sanzden students and other regional, national and international artists.
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LOT 17:
Capps, Charles (1898-1981) "Castles in Kansas" etching, pencil signed in lower right, good condition but ...
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Capps, Charles (1898-1981) "Castles in Kansas" etching, pencil signed in lower right, good condition but appears to have foxing on paper, image size: 8 x 10.75 inches. A printmaker especially known for subtle tonal variations in aquatints, Charles Capps, whose friends called him "Chili", did many images of Midwestern scenes and Southwestern subjects as well as commercial art endeavors. He was especially taken with the adobe architecture of Taos and Santa Fe. He created his own plates, and turning out editions of about 100, signed and numbered each one in pencil. In total, he completed about 80 prints, of which half are aquatints, a third etchings and drypoints and the others blockprints and lithographs.Noted for his dry sense of humor, he had a sign over his studio door: "Phooey to the Louvre". One of his friends said that Capps "could puncture a balloon of self-important pomposity."A charter member of the Prairie Print Makers of Kansas, he served as its President for twenty-three years. He was also active in the Society of American Etchers, the Chicago Society of Etchers, Philadelphia Society of Etchers, Northwest Printmakers and Printmakers Society of California.Capps was born in Jacksonville, Illinois where his father was a clothing manufacturer, and Capps worked in the mills during summer vacations. He went to Illionois College in Jacksonville, graduating in 1920 and then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.Returning to Jacksonville, he married Anna Palmer and the couple moved to Wichita to work for Western Lithograph. Shortly after, he returned to Illinois, taking an advertising job in Springfield. Then they moved to San Francisco, where he worked as a free-lance advertising artist until 1925, when he returned to Wichita and a promotion at Western Lithograph. Soon he began experimenting with woodcuts, creating a series of award-winning bookplates, and from 1931, did etchings. The quality of his prints earned him membership in professional printmakers' organizations including the Chicago Society of Etchers, where the committee upon seeing his work, burst into applause. Also friendship and classes with Doel Reed, professor of art at Oklahoma State University, and master of aquatints, had a profound effect on Capps' career, which was memorialized just before his death with a joint retrospective with Clarence Hotvedt and Lloyd Foltz sponsored by the Wichita Art Association.
Condition: good, appears to be some foxing on paper
Dimensions: 16.25 x 19 x 0.75 in
Weight: 3.4 lb
