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.
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