Jug and Still Life in Purple with Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928 Oil on Linen of an urn with a bowl and apples in a Purple background by Alvin R. Raffel (American, 1905-1987.) Linen is on plywood but we can re-stretch on stretcher bars. Some loss to linen edges at corners out of sight of the painting will be re-lined. Alvin Robert Raffel born on December 25, 1905 in Dayton, Ohio. Son of Herman John and Pauline Louise (Kromann) Raffel. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and a BA in fine arts in 1933 at the Artist Institute of Chicago under F. DeForest Schook. He was a lithographer for Gartner & Bender in Chicago from 1925 until 1936. Lived in Dayton, Ohio in 1939 as a lithographer for Reynolds & Reynolds. Instructor of watercolor painting at Centerville High School and an Instructor of drawing and painting at Dayton Art Institute. Exhibited: Ohio Annual, Dayton Art Institute: 1933, 1934-45 (1945, First Purchase Prize) Cincinnati Annual, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, 1945 Pepsi-Cola, 1945 Carnegie Annual, Pittsburgh, PA, 1946-48 Magnificent Mile Exhibit, Chicago, IL, 1955 Provincetown Art Festival, MA, 1958 Member of: American Association of University Professors Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors