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Enquirer Weekend, Friday September 15th, 2006
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Office
fine art: Scenes of Cincinnati at Clifton opening on Thursday.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Weekend Magazine
Friday April
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Friday, February 20, 2004

Looking
for new office art? Cincinnati artist Tom Lohre, Jr.'s Clifton
Cow series might be a nice addition.


Cincinnati
Post Article November 5th, 2003 by Roy Wood


Monday,
November 03, 2003 Tip Sheet
Need distinctive office or living room art? An impressionistic
oil painting of Tall Stacks 2003 is now for sale from Clifton's
Tom Lohre.

Wednesday,
February 19, 2003
Cincinnati Enquirer
Fighting winter blues
Picture
this inspirational cow for relief by Denise Amos

Cincinnati Enquirer Tip Sheet Tues, 18 Feb 2003
Need
new office art? About a year ago, the world learned that a wandering
cow with apparent mystical powers was loose in Clifton. Cow
art by Tom Lohre


Cincinnati Enquirer
Tip Sheet Thu, 2 Jan 2003
Do you miss
it: This photo of a painting by Clifton artist Tom Lohre of Cinergy
Field, the Suspension Bridge and the Ohio River is available at
Cinergy
Field.

" the individualists and adventurers like Lohre may
be the artists to watch" "Figurative portrait painting is no longer taught
in most art schools. Lohre, who studied advertising in college, has been
studying painting the way artists studied in the 19th century. He sets up
his canvas in an museums and copies paintings by the masters. 'I started
copying paintings at the Cincinnati An Museum. After I moved to New York
I painted at the Metropolitan.'
To learn his trade, Lohre seeks out artists and asks their advice. 'I learned
a lot about painting portraits from celebrity artist Ralph Wolf Cowan.'
Lohre started painting portraits when he noticed some of the people in the
paintings at the Met resembled people he knew. 'I'o paint a Van Dyke and
put in a new face.' The device was a good publicity stunt, but not very
lucrative. 'People want an original painting, so I staned painting people
posed in their favorite fantasy.'
Lohre is also interested in painting landscape, but only when there is something
significant happening. He found a way to get press credentials for the launch
of the space shuttle. Before Mount St. Helens erupted he contrived a way
to be present to paint the mountain.
Lohre is learning his art the hard way, by traveling, searching and working,
without the aid of academy or apprentice
system. In an age when most artists are products of master programs at universities,
all reflecting the current academic dogmas of contemporary an, the individualists
and adventurers like Lohre may be the artists to watch."
Owen Flndsen, Art Critic for The Cincinnati Enquirer
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