Rural Church

original lithograph

by Edward G Eisenlohr

1933

Edward Eisenlohr (1872-1961) is considered one of the pioneer landscape painters and lithographers of Texas. Eisenlohr documented the early twentieth-century landscape of Dallas in over 1,000 drawings, watercolors, pastels, oil paintings, and lithographs. His earliest drawings and paintings recorded abandoned buildings on the edge of the city, as well as the emerging skyline of Dallas. He also painted fields, farms, and country churches around growing Dallas. 

His works have been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington; the National Academy of Design and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Pan-American Exposition; the Albany Institute of the History of Art; the New York and San Francisco World’s fairs; the St. Louis Museum; the Museum of New Mexico; and many one-man exhibitions. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, the Delgado Museum of Art in New Orleans, the Witte Museum at San Antonio, and the art museums of Abilene, Houston, and Santa Fe. 

Eisenlohr was one of the founding officers of the organization that became the Dallas Art Association. He was also a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Texas Fine Arts Association, the American Arts Professional League, the American Federation of Artists, the Southern States Art League, the New York Federation of Arts, and the New York Water Color Club. 

(adapted from the biography on the US Department of State's "Art in Embassies" website)

This rare original lithograph is signed, titled, and dated by the artist in pencil. It is one of an edition of 50 on watermarked paper. Slightly lightstruck from mounting. Old tape residue on reverse top edge. Image in excellent condition.

Sight: 9 x 10.5

Sheet: 11 x 12.5