In 1924 he was listed in a professional registry of illustrators at 70 Fifth Avenue, the same place of business he had occupied for twenty-four years. His older sister Caroline went to live with their brother Albert at 11 Irvington Place in Brooklyn. His wife's unmarried sister Elise Leffingwell came to live with them. In 1924 they sold the family home on Ocean Avenue. This was an innovative union of allied illustrators, mainly composed of members of the New York Society of Illustrators. In 1921 he joined the newly founded Guild of Free Lance Artists, which later became the Artist's Guild.

He contributed patriotic recruitment posters to the war effort, as did other illustrators, such as James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, and John A. He was thirty-eight years old, so he did not serve in the military. Their second child Robert Leffingwell Graef was born October 20, 1914.ĭuring the Great War he reported for draft registration on September 12, 1918, and was recorded to be medium height, medium build, with blue eyes and gray hair. On Septemhis son Frederick Leffingwell Graef was born. They lived with his widowed mother and unmarried sister in a separate floor of his family home at 399 Ocean Avenue. In 1908 he married Ethel Esther Leffingwell, who was born 1881 in NYC. His illustrations soon appeared in Red Book, The Delineator, Woman's Home Companion, Hampton's Magazine, as well as the Hearst newspaper syndicate. Graef opened a professional art studio at 70 Fifth Avenue, near 13th Street in Manhattan. On Aughis father died and left the family a significant fortune. In 1897 a new brick home was built for the family at 399 Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn. On Jhe was awarded the Diploma of Course Completion from Pratt Institute of Brooklyn. In 1896 he won first prize in a student competition to design a poster for the mid-summer issue of Century Magazine, which was his first illustration published in a nationwide magazine. In September 1893 he enrolled in the Regular Three Year Art Course at Pratt Institute of Brooklyn.

On Jhe graduated from grammar school P.S. In 1890 at the age of ten his first published artwork appeared in a Brooklyn Newspaper. In 1884 the family moved to a rented home in Brooklyn. His father was a prosperous glass and chinaware merchant with a store at 1141 Broadway, which was on the corner of 26th Street. They lived at 143 Second Avenue, near East Ninth Street in Manhattan. Alfred was born in 1878, and then Robert in 1879. Brunner, was born 1851 in New York City to parents of Swiss and German ancestry.

His father, Frederick Wilhelm Graef, was born 1840 in Germany, then called Prussia.

Robert Arthur Graef was born Septemon the Lower East Side of New York City.

The Enchanted Fawn by Robert A. Graef