Renate Scheer Kalkofen 1962 "Still Life with Flower“ Signed Print old handmade house This puzzle

This puzzle

Visible image: 18 3/4" x 11 3/4"

which add up to a great patina

but thanks to a handy attribution written by his maker on the back of the base

with cutouts in the cardboard base for each shell -- and a dry kidney bean as well to hide underneath one of them

Renate Scheer Kalkofen 1962 "Still Life with Flower“ Signed Print old handmade house This puzzleThere is not a whole lot out there about Renate Scheer Kalkofen (1935 2013) who created this striking print, "Still Life with Flower," (a four color screen print I believe) in an edition of 5 in 1962, as well as several others I am listing from around the same time. I do know she was a graduate of Tufts University and spent much of her life in the nearby Boston suburb of Belmont, where there are records of her exhibiting from the 1960s and 70s all the