{"title":"Charles F. RAMUS","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Frederick Ramus (1902–1979) was a Denver-born and raised artist, art historian, and educator. Raised both in the city and its surrounding countryside, he began formal artistic training at the Denver Academy of Applied Arts before following his mentor, painter John E. Thompson, to the newly founded Chappell House art school. Although trained primarily in drawing and painting, Ramus gravitated toward printmaking and assisted Thompson on mural commissions. This led him to Mexico in 1925, where he worked alongside major muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. During this period, he discovered the work of Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, sparking a lifelong passion for collecting prints. Ramus went on to assemble a varied personal art collection, with special focus on prints. These personal interests ultimately enriched the Denver Art Museum, where his 1948 gift of twenty three Posada prints (as well as other works of art) remains a cornerstone of the museum’s Latin American holdings. From 1929 onward, Ramus became primarily a scholar, first as Curator of Primitive Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art, then as a lecturer in art history University of Denver and a Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Detroit Art Museum. In the early 1930s, and again in 1939, Ramus created lithographs. The extent of his output is hard to gauge but seems to have been limited. Social commentary subjects dominate these prints Ramus died of cancer in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"scrap-for-war","title":"Scrap for War","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eLithograph on wove paper. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrial proof; it is uncertain that an edition of this print, which seems very scarce, was ever printed. Printed by Harold Emerson Keeler, who was based in Denver at the time of this edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigned, dated, titled, and annotated \"9th Trial Proof\" in pencil.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"\u003eNOTE: Sadly prescient, an amalgamation of metal scraps with an air of rockets and tanks has been stocked in heaps. Two boys approach what looks like a manhole prudently. Their pose seems to suggest they expect something is about to blow out of this conduit. Two dogs nearby are similarly perplexed by what this all means. Given this lithograph was created in 1939, one can only assume Charles Ramus remembered what happened the last time nations amassed weaponry; having lived through the end of World War I. He very probably could feel it coming again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RAMUS, Charles F.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47970775105772,"sku":null,"price":415.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2654\/1544\/files\/CharlesF.RAMUS-ScrapforWar-Lithograph-1939-detail.jpg?v=1784479833"}],"url":"https:\/\/armstrongfineart.com\/collections\/charles-f-ramus\/color_black-and-white.oembed","provider":"Armstrong Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}