Richard Loehle - Artist Info

About Richard Loehle

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    Richard Loehle
    1923-2011

    Richard Loehle had a busy and successful career as an illustrator, fine artist and portrait artist. He received a scholarship to the High Museum School of Art in 1940 and went to night school at Georgia Tech before moving to Nashville to attend an excellent small private art school. He met his wife, Betty, also an artist, at the school. They were married in 1947 and moved to Chicago to pursue their art careers.

    The first few years in Chicago Richard had covers on sports magazines and Amazing Stories, and his cartoons and figurative line drawings were in the first issue of Playboy and subsequent issues for many years. Book illustration became his main focus, and he produced...

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