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Lars Olavson Fletre was born in Voss, Norway in 1904, the seventh of nine children. He came to the U.S. in 1923, locating in Chicago where his brother, Odd, immigrated to in 1913. He attended the Chicago Painting School’s evening classes from 1924-1925 and classes at the Chicago Art Institute from 1925-1931. He worked in a furniture factory and did house painting while producing sculptures, wood carvings, prints, and paintings. In 1933, he returned to Norway where he worked as a sculptor. From 1941-1950 he was a designer for Hadeland Glass Works in Jevnaker, Norway. Later, he established his own shop in Voss for the production of cemetery sculpture, Vossevangen Masonry. He returned to Chicago in 1954 and later founded the Vossing Art Studio in 1962. Fletre died in Norway in 1977.

This block print is from a series of cityscapes of Chicago during the Great Depression.