Renate Scheer Kalkofen Mid-Century Ab Ex Print "Still Life," 1962, ed. 5, Purples old porcelain enamel street sign and red with some print

and red with some print on it for the tail

What a brilliant and beautiful box

Really beautifully made (this piece reminds me very much of the work of Anderson Design Studio in Maine) with a resist technique used for the surface decoration I believe

Executed in ink or a few in pencil on heavy cream board

This Standard Set of 202 colors was first introduced in 1948 and remained Color-aid's core product until the introduction of the "Full Set" in 1990

Renate Scheer Kalkofen Mid-Century Ab Ex Print "Still Life," 1962, ed. 5, Purples old porcelain enamel street sign and red with some printThere is not a whole lot out there about Renate Scheer Kalkofen (1935 2013) who created this stunner of a print in 1962, as well as several others I am listing from around the same time. I do know she was a graduate of Tufts University and spent much of her life in the nearby Boston suburb of Belmont, where there are records of her exhibiting from the 1960s and 70s all the way through 2011. And I know from the dealer I purchased the prints from that