Thursday, December 16, 1999
Lithograph inspired by tornado of '99
Loren Long prints benefit Red Cross
BY OWEN FINDSEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
'The Tornado'
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The tornado that hit northeastern Hamilton County in April has inspired Cincinnati artist Loren Long to create a print to honor the victims of the disaster and the volunteers who helped them.
“I am an illustrator so I'm used to telling a story,” Mr. Long says. “When I first started thinking about doing a fine-art lithograph, the tornado had just hit. The newspapers were full of photographs of the disaster, and I wanted to do a story telling about the human devastation. It's not about the tornado. It's about the results; the people picking up the pieces.
“The Red Cross kept showing up in the stories and in my sketches, so I thought we should donate part of the proceeds from the sale of the prints to the Red Cross.”
The print was inspired by the lithographs created in the 1930s by famous regional artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, John SteuartCurry and Grant Wood.
“These were artists who created murals, oil paintings and lithographs,” Mr. Long says. “The lithographs were done so that people who could not afford original paintings could own fine art.”
Mr. Long drew the image using grease pencil on a lithographic plate, the same technique used by the artists of the 1930s.
Mr. Long is best known for his 1998 Cincinnati Heart Mini-Marathon poster that featured greyhounds. It won the gold medal of the Society of Illustrators in New York.
The print “The Tornado,” is a signed original lithograph printed by Mark Patsfall Press and published by David Lusenhop Fine Art. Only 39 prints will be sold.
The print is 9 by 13 inches on 15- by 19-inch paper. The price is $300, of which $75 goes to the Cincinnati Red Cross. Send one check for $225 made out to David Lusenhop Fine Art and a second check for $75 made out to the American Red Cross to Lusenhop Fine Art, 3143 Schubert Ave., Cincinnati 45213; 631-1939.
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