Iver Rose (1899-1972) American, Artists Proof Lithograph. Signed in pencil bottom right. Titled in pencil bottom left: "The Bath (A.P.)" 

Overall: 22 1/2 X 15 3/4 in. 

Sight: 15 3/4 X 9 1/2 in. 

#3819 . 

Iver Rose was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1899. His introduction to art was through a drawing class at Hull-House, one of this country’s best known social settlements, which was established in 1889 in the heart of Chicago’s densely populated Near West Side neighborhood. Rose received additional instruction at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cincinnati Academy of Art. During the early 1920s Rose moved to New York, where he found work as a commercial artist. When the Depression hit he returned to Chicago and was employed for a time as an easel painter under the auspices of the WPA. Many of Rose’s works dating from the 1930s and 40s have a social realism flavor about them, a concern for the plight of the working man. Iver Rose began summering in Rockport in the early 1930s, and in the paintings he did in the Cape Ann area this shows up in his depictions of men laboring in the granite quarries and working in the fishing industry. On his first visits to the area he found lodgings in a Main Street boarding house run by Jennie Savage, affectionately known as “the jungle,” which also offered endless inspiration. In 1948, Rose purchased the property which overlooked Sandy Bay and continued to use it as his summer home and studio until his death in 1972. In his later years Rose turned his focus to lighter subjects, most notably clowns and children, and his work can be seen in public displays at the Chicago Public Library, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the University of Georgia, the Des Moines Art Center, the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.