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Numerous resources are available for learning more about the art and artists of Chicago from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The following selection offers a launching point for further…
Compressed into a vertical format that accentuates the dramatic contrasts of heights and valleys, Carl Wallin’s composition presents a fantasy landscape in which mountain and rocks, rendered in muted tones…
…Paris in 1891 to study for three years at the Académie Colarossi. She then attended the Art Institute of Chicago, working under John Vanderpoel. In 1898, Hartrath resumed her studies…
…abandoned commercial art altogether to devote himself to painting, specializing in figural images and landscapes. He worked in coastal New England, in the artists’ haunts of Provincetown and Rockport, Massachusetts,…
…year in the Art Institute’s inaugural annual exhibition for American artists and helped found the Chicago Society of Artists, of which he served as first president. Boutwood was a regular…
Associated with Chicago’s community of progressive artists early in her career, Frances Foy was a commercially successful illustrator, painter, and printmaker whose works include portraits, still lifes, and scenes of…
…with additional training at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (founded in 1902). Grant worked as a commercial artist to fund study abroad, in Italy in 1907 with American impressionist…
…in New York he moved to Chicago, where he attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (founded in 1902), studying under Wellington Reynolds and Victor Higgins, and then at the…
…on a scholarship, graduating with honors in 1913, and he worked as a commercial artist. In 1912 Ostrowsky married Anna Israelson, daughter of a prominent Chicago rabbi; her career as…