Born March 18, 1905 in Illinois, Lichtner was another beneficiary of Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s. He worked in the sober tones of the social-realist style typical of the austere 1930s, and this painting: Potato Planting, is a classic example of the genre.
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