"Clown - For Andree ..." by Russell T. Limbach (Ohio, 1904-1971) original lithograph, signed and dedicated "Clown - For Andree, Rachel .. and Winthrop may look at it too - Also Daddy & Mommy - if they are good - Xmas 1956 Butch," circa 1935-1943, from the Amity Art Foundation Collection, loose - 15 3/4" x 23". 
 
Russell T. Limbach was a painter and printmaker. He briefly attended the Cleveland School of Art, then left to become an apprentice in the sketch room of a small lithographic plant there, learning and refining his technique under the guidance of experienced staff artists. He left for Europe in 1928 and studied for nearly a year under a fourth-generation lithographer in Paris. Returning to Cleveland in the depths of the Depression, he traveled to New York City, where he found work as the Art Editor of The New Masses. Limbach was a member of the American Artists’ Congress and was commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project in 1934. He moved to New York in 1935 to work as a technical advisor for the Works Progress Administration's graphics workshop. He resigned in 1940 and began working at Wesleyan University in 1941, where he could remain for the rest of his life. He was the recipient of numerous awards, and his works are held in the collections of numerous libraries and museums including the Whitney Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art.