Artworks · Richard Aberle Florsheim

Smoking Ruins Gave No Shelter

1945 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 22.8 × 33.1 cm (9 × 13 1/16 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 40.4 cm (11 7/8 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

And Armies Marched in Torn Confusion

1945 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 23.2 × 33.5 cm (9 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 40.2 cm (11 15/16 × 15 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Now Harbors Filled with Tangled Wreckage

1945 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 33 × 22.5 cm (13 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 30.6 cm (16 × 12 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Thunder Broke Upon the Beaches

1945 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 24 × 34 cm (9 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 40.5 cm (11 15/16 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

With Remnants Tattered

1945 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 23 × 33.2 cm (9 1/16 × 13 1/8 in.); Sheet: 30.9 × 40.7 cm (12 3/16 × 16 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Bombers Left a Tumbled Pattern

1945 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 32.2 × 22 cm (12 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 40.3 × 30.1 cm (15 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Strange Symbols Stood Upon the Beachheads

1944 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 23.3 × 33.7 cm (9 3/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Sheet: 30.3 × 40.5 cm (11 15/16 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Wind Was Gone – The Branches Torn

1944 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

Image: 32.9 × 23.5 cm (13 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 42 × 31.9 cm (16 9/16 × 12 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

While Shadowed Figures Searched

1944 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 25 × 35.3 cm (9 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.1 × 40.6 cm (11 7/8 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

And Homeless Wandered

1941 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 24.5 × 31.2 cm (9 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Sheet: 28.9 × 40.3 cm (11 7/16 × 15 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Struggling Saw No Others's Faces

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 24 × 34.5 cm (9 1/2 × 13 5/8 in.); Sheet: 29.2 × 40.4 cm (11 1/2 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

While Visions Weighed Him, Crushed and Speechless

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 28.4 × 17.3 cm (11 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 40.3 × 19.4 cm (15 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

On Seashores Heavy with Approaching Storms

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 16 × 43.9 cm (6 5/16 × 17 5/16 in.); Sheet: 20.2 × 52.1 cm (8 × 20 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Or Marched in Rhythm Through a Gathering Darkness

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 53.3 × 39.6 cm (21 × 15 5/8 in.); Sheet: 58 × 40.4 cm (22 7/8 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

And Rocks That Shielded Broken Branches

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 18.5 × 26.6 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/2 in.); Sheet: 20.5 × 28.9 cm (8 1/8 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

They Turned Away From Where He Fell

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 17.2 × 29.5 cm (6 13/16 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet: 23.7 × 40.3 cm (9 3/8 × 15 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

This is How It All Began

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 36.7 × 26 cm (14 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 29.2 cm (16 × 11 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Wind Swept Through the Leafless Trees

1940 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper

Image: 27 × 48.5 cm (10 11/16 × 19 1/8 in.); Sheet: 40.3 × 49.1 cm (15 7/8 × 19 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago