1930's Listed Artist popular Boris Riedel Original Serigraph Silk Screen Signed Artwork

I am Selling a Silkscreen artwork of a Country Village Scene by Listed Austrian Artist Boris Riedel, dates from the 1930's. The Art measures 18" x 14" and is signed in the lower left corner, the Art is in beautiful, clean condition.

Graphic artist and illustrator Boris Riedel was born in Austria but was primarily active in the United States. Little is found on the seemingly prolific illustrator, though it is known that he worked for the Chicagoan, illustrating its first cover in 1926 as well as several subsequent covers and vignettes, and also acting as the magazine's first art editor. He illustrated several children's books we well as a book of poetry by Marie Hecht and a novel by J.V. Nicholson, and was employed by WGN Radio out of Chicago to illustrate their publication, The popular Linebook. At some point he lived in Hollywood where he worked as a poster designer and portraitist to the stars.

Some of Riedel's silkscreen work would today fall under the category of fine art rather than illustrative, but at the height of his career silkscreen was still primarily considered commercial, and had not yet been formally recognized by the art world as a stand-alone fine art medium.

In 1924 he was also the illustrator of J. U. Nicolson's Sainted Courtezan published in Chicago by Pascal Covici . Riedel's other Chicago work included a cover for Richard Henry Little's Linebook series. (The black & white photo is Boris Riedel, cropped from a December 19, 1926 Chicago Daily Tribune photo titled, "Linebook Night on W-G-N!")Little's Linebooks, collections of stories, poems and humor garnered from his newspaper column, "A Line O' Type or Two," were published by the Chicago Tribune from 1924 to 1940. Riedel did the 1926 cover - the year The Chicagoan first hit the stands.

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