Lot 24103: RALPH LUDWIG BOYER (American 1879-1952)

RALPH LUDWIG BOYER (American 1879-1952)
Three Landscape Drawings
Pencil on paper
Variety of sizes, ranging from 13in. x 10in. to 9in. x 2in.
All signed
Provenance: private collection, Dallas

Ralph Ludwig Boyer was born in Camden, New Jersey and began his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under renowned painters William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Anschutz, and Hugh Breckenridge. He won the Cresson scholarship, which enabled him to study art in Spain. During World War I, Boyer worked in Baltimore for the U.S. Marines Camouflage Division. He worked as an illustrator for several publications, including Scribners, Harpers Weekly, and Good Housekeeping. Boyer exhibited his works at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bridgeport Museum of Art. He lived in Westport, Connecticut from 1923 until his death in 1952.

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