Lumen Martin Winter (1908 - 19820 Lithograph on paper, Signed lower right in pencil "Lumen Winter" and numbered bottom left 198/260, measures 19.5 x 15.5 inches, titled 'Hudson River Valley". Lumen Martin Winter was born on December 12, 1908 in Ellery, Illinois. When he was three years old his family moved to Larned in western Kansas, to a ranch located along the Santa Fe Trail. The memory of the Santa Fe Trail influenced Winter's western art throughout his life. Winter worked creating watercolors, oil, murals in marble and bronze, mosaics, block prints, stone lithography and etchings. Winter studied at Grand Rapids Junior College in Michigan and the Cleveland School of Art in Ohio. He went on to study art at the National Academy of Design, Grand Central School of Art and Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, all in New York City. He also studied in France and Italy. Winter’s instructors included Ivan Olinsky, Eric Pape and Walter Biggs. He knew and was influenced by Thomas Hart Benton and John Stuart Curry. Became long-time friends with Norman Rockwell while working on murals at the United Nations in New York City.

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