- J. C. Leyendecker
Joseph Christian Leyendecker was a popular American illustrator. Of Dutch ancestry, born in Germany, he emigrated to the United States at the age of eight in 1882 from Montabaur, Germany, with his parents, Peter Leyendecker and Elizabeth née Oreseifen, his sister, Augusta, and two brothers, Francis Xavier "Frank" Leyendecker, and Adolph Leyendecker. Leyendecker obtained a job at an engraving company, and attended the Chicago Art Institute under John H. Vanderpoel, … - Donald Roller Wilson
Donald Roller Wilson (born November 23, 1938) is an artist who uses some unique items in his paintings, such as dogs and cats, chimpanzees, dill pickles, wooden matches, olives, asparagus stalks, and even cigarettes. He paints in oils, in a very polished, super-realistic style, using the same techniques used by the Old Masters. He was born in Houston, Texas and is based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. According to the "New York Times", "Donald Roller Wilson's goofy, … - Andrew Loomis
William Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) was an illustrator from the United States who is best remembered now for a series of art instruction books that continues to influence realist artists, though they are in 2004 all out of print, except for some excerpts available from the art publisher Walter Foster. The Loomis family, who still holds the copyrights to all the books published by Andrew Loomis, … - J. Allen St. John
J. Allen St. John (1875-1957) was an American author, artist and illustrator. He is especially remembered for his illustrations for the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs; although, he illustrated works of many types. He taught at the Chicago Art Institute and with the American Academy of Art. - Carl Morris
Carl Morris (1911-1993) was an American artist. Morris was born in Yorba Linda, California and he studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Paris and Vienna. He opened the Spokane Art Center through the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. He met his wife, sculptor Hilda Grossman (Deutsch) when he recruited her as a teacher for the center. Other notable teachers at the center include Guy Anderson and Clyfford Still. - Rudolph Ruzicka
Rudolph Ruzicka prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype Company for fifty years. He designed a number of seals and medals, including the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). - Lyman Young
Lyman W. Young (1893-1984) was an American cartoonist who created the strip "Tim Tyler's Luck". His younger brother Chic Young is the creator of the strip "Blondie". He studied at the Chicago Art Institute and served in World War I before beginning his career as a cartoonist in 1924, taking over C.W. Kahles' cartoon strip 'The Kelly Kids'. He received the National Cartoonists Society Silver T-Square Award in 1977. - Gustave Moeller
Gustave Moeller was an American born artist who was most well known for painting, especially painting American towns and villages. Moeller was born in New Holstein, Wisconsin, but moved to Milwaukee at a young age. As a teen Moeller attended the Milwaukee Art Students’ League with young artists such as Edward Steichen. Moeller was one of the first students at the Milwaukee Art Students' League. - Lugenia Burns Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope, née Burns (Feb 19, 1871, St. Louis, Missouri – Aug 14, 1947, Nashville, Tennessee) was a social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her youth, Lugenia Hope worked for various charitable organizations, inspiring a life-long interest in social outreach work. - Max Kahn
Max Kahn was a lithographer, painter and sculptor born in in Slonim, Belarus in 1902. He worked until age 100 and died in 2005 at the age of 103. He went to the USA in 1907 studying art at Bradley University then going to Paris in 1926-1928 where he studied primarily sculpture with Charles Despiau and Antoine Bourdelle and drawing with Othon Friesz at the Academy Suede West on the Rive Droite. In 1935 he met Eleanor Coen, a lithographer and painter, who he later married. - George Hitchcock
George Hitchcock, American artist, was born at Providence, Rhode Island. Hitchcock graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in Paris. He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his "Tulip Growing", of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio at Egmond-aan-Zee, in the Netherlands. - Kimon Friar
Kimon Friar (1911-May 25, 1993) was a Greek-American poet and translator of Greek poetry. Friar was born in 1911 in Imrali, Turkey, to an American father and a Greek mother. He was brought to the United States in 1915 and naturalized soon after in 1920. As a child, Friar had problems with the English language, and so he focused all his energy on art. He discovered poetry at a young age, and, as a teenager, became interested in drama. - Erwin Hauer
Erwin Hauer (b.1926) is an Austrian-born American sculptor who studied first at Vienna's Academy of Applied Arts and later under Josef Albers at Yale. Hauer was an early proponent of Modular Constructivism and an associate of Norman Carlberg. Like Carlberg, he was especially known for his minimalist, repetitive pieces in the 1950s and 1960s. According to ribabookshops.com, Hauer's sculptures are in many public collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, … - Warner Sallman
Warner Sallman (1892-1968) was a Christian painter from Chicago. He worked as a freelance illustrator. His portrait of Christ, "Head of Christ", of which more than 500 million copies have been sold, is better known than he is, however the "New York Times" in 1994 called him the "best-known artist of the century". He also created commercial advertising images. - Cecco del Caravaggio
Cecco del Caravaggio (active c.1610-mid 1620s), is the name used for a Baroque artist working in Rome in the early decades of the 17th century, an important early follower of Caravaggio. He has been identified as Francesco Boneri (or Buoneri), although this is not universally accepted. Little is known about Cecco del Caravaggio. In his guide to contemporary artists written for fellow-collectors in about 1620, "Considerazioni sulla Pittura", … - James Strombotne
James S. Strombotne (born 1934) is an American painter. He was born in Watertown, South Dakota, but was raised and educated in Southern California, receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College in 1956 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Claremont Graduate School in 1959. He received a fellowship from Pomona College to study in Italy, and in 1962 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for further study in Rome. - Mary Stanisia
Sister Maria Stanisia (born Monica Kurkowski) was an American Catholic artist and painter. She was a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Born of a Polish family, Kurkowski, in Chicago, Illinois, where she first began to paint at the age of eight. Noted Polish painter Professor Thaddeus Zukotynski taught her the art of religious painting, landscape painting, and sculpture. After his death, she continued her studies at the Chicago Art Institute. - Gene Ahern
Gene Ahern (1895-November 17, 1960) was a cartoonist best known for his bombastic Major Hoople, a pompous character who appeared in the long-run syndicated gag panel "Our Boarding House". Many of Ahern's comic strips took a surreal or screwball approach, and he created the nonsense catch phrase "Nov shmoz ka pop." After three years at the Chicago Art Institute, Ahern went to Cleveland and worked for the NEA syndicate (1914-15) on such strips as "Dream Dope", … - Maginel Wright Enright
Maginel Wright Enright Barney (June 19, 1881-April 18, 1966) was a children's book illustrator and graphic artist, younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, and mother of Elizabeth Enright, children's book author and illustrator. She was born Margaret Ellen Wright in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the third child of William and Anna Wright. (The name "Maginel" was a later creation of her mother's, a contraction of "Maggie Nell".) At age two, … - George Lichty
George Lichty (1905-1982) was an American cartoonist, creator of the cartoon series "Grin and Bear It". He was born George Maurice Lichtenstein in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the Chicago Art Institute, and at the University of Michigan was editor of the Gargoyle Humor Magazine. His work was signed "Lichty", and often ran without mention of his first name. The artwork had a hastily drawn, loose appearance. - Clarence Joseph Bulliet
Clarence Joseph Bulliet (March 16, 1883 - October 20, 1952) was an American art critic and author. Also referenced commonly as "C.J." Bulliet. He was the grandfather of Richard Bulliet, a present day historian. Bulliet grew up in Corydon, Indiana and graduated in 1904 from Indiana University. For nine years he pursued a journalism career in Indianapolis. His theater reviews resulted in an offer from Robert Mantell, the head of a touring Shakespeare company, … - Gregory Allen Page
Gregory Allen Page is a Chicago–born artist who pioneered the artistic movement Chicago Impressionism, a genre influenced and inspired by the impressionist paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Painters in this genre study the Impressionist paintings housed in the Art Institute (as opposed to formal art school training) to create art with an Impressionistic influence. - Michael Foster
Michael Foster was an American cartoonist, journalist and novelist. Born August 29, 1904, in Hardy, Arkansas, he died March 25, 1956, in California. Foster was a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute and became a reporter and cartoonist for newspapers in Salina, Kansas, and Seattle, Washington. His nickname was "Gully." In 1926, he was working on the "Los Angeles Express," a daily newspaper. A friend, Charles Harris (Brick) Garrigues, wrote that Foster "writes, … - Nicodemus David Hufford III
Nicodemus David Hufford III, the son of a minstrel and vaudeville comedian, was born in Columbus, Ohio. In the 1930s he studied his chosen profession at the Chicago Art Institute, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and the Chicago Professional School and American Academy, and in the early 1940s he served an apprenticeship under two top illustrators, Haddon Sundblom and Harry Anderson. Hufford has painted portraits of a number of leading American families, … - Arthur Thrall
Arthur Thrall Painter, printmakerArthur Thrall’s painting and prints have been in more than 500 exhibits in the USA and abroad including England, Finland, Germany, and in US embassies. His work is in collections of the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Strang Print Room of the University College London, the Pori Library (Finland), Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, National Collection of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, … - Lars Fletre
Lars Fletre was a prominent Norwegian sculptor/artist born in Voss, Norway on June 22, 1904. He was married to Helen Svensson Fletre. He migrated to Chicago in 1923 and attended the technical night school at the Chicago Art Institute. He returned to Norway to marry a Swedish woman (the above aforementioned Helen Svensson Fletre) whom he met in Chicago. At one time, he worked at the Hadeland Glass factory in Jevnaker. - Charles Kassler
Charles Kassler Jr (b. 1897, Denver, Colorado) Was a painter, printmaker, and lithographer. He lost a hand during a high school chemistry experiment. He studied art and architecture at Princeton University and the Chicago Art Institute. From 1925 to 1932 Kassler continued his studies while living at various times in New Mexico, Europe, and North Africa. While in France, he apprenticed himself to a well-known fresco painter. - John Goray
John C. Goray (1912-1990) graduated from the Chicago Art Institute and was a member of the Art Student's League, New York. He worked as an art instructor and had a great influence on many artists in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. His work can be seen at the Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Goray was a vibrant and energetic man especially in the expression of his art and he brought out the best in his students. - Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and litigant in the United States Supreme Court case, "Hansberry v. Lee". Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hansberry was the youngest of four children of Carl Augustus Hansberry (a prominent real estate broker) and Nannie Perry Hansberry. She grew up on the south side of Chicago in the Woodlawn neighborhood. When she was eight, the family moved into an all white neighborhood, … - Jules Engel
Jules Engel (11 March 1909-6 September 2003) was a Jewish-Hungarian American filmmaker, animator, painter,sculptor, and teacher. He is most remembered as the founding director of the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators. - Andrew Borowiec
Andrew Borowiec received his MFA from Yale University and is currently a Professor of Art at The University of Akron. He has received numerous grants and awards for his work including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, NEA grants, Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship. His photography has been exhibited in solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, Colombus Museum of Art, O.K. Harris in New York. - Marjorie Schlossman
Marjorie Schlossman is a painter, musician and mother of seven children. Born in California and raised in Fargo, N.D., Marjorie graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. , with a degree in literature. She married and moved to La Jolla and then to the Palo Alto area, where she studied art with Richard Bowman, an instructor at the Chicago Art Institute and Stanford University; and Kenneth Washburn, a retired Columbia University professor. - Joseph Binder
Joseph Binder was an Austrian-born designer whose influence permeated Europe and the U.S. He applied reductive compositional principles derived from Cubism and De Stijl to his posters, including the one he designed for the New York World’s Fair in 1939. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1934 and won many poster competitions, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, for such agencies as the National Defense, the United Nations, and the American Red Cross. - Rachael Ledingham
Rachael Ledingham, Advertising Services Assistant Ledinghams part-time duties for AdOhio include compiling tearsheets for current newspaper buys. She works mornings Monday through Friday. Ledingham previously spent 45 years in the graphic design field, most recently with Mlicki Design. She studied fine arts at Ohio State University and took classes at the Chicago Art Institute, Academy of Fine Arts (Chicago) and Bradley University. - Michael Hislop
Michael Hislop Michael is director of the PA Club , designed to bring PAs in touch with each other and with suppliers. He has over 20 years’ lecture experience on a wide range of topics. Audiences include the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chicago Art Institute, the British Fulbright Scholars’s Association & the Fulbright Commission, Docklands Business Club, various Chambers of Commerce. etc. Radio appearances include BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. - Christine Stoughton
Christine Stoughton Christine Stoughton Christine Stoughton , a printmaker and sculptor, has taught printmaking in community art centers since 2001 and for the Continuing Inspiration Program of the University of the Arts since 2006. She studied with the Violette de Mazia Foundation under the instruction of Marilyn Bauman and William Perthes from 2001 to 2005, and participated in the Foundation’s Teacher Training Program during the summer of 2007. - Marion Weiss
Marion Weiss Marion Weiss is the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design – PennDesign – where she teaches design studios and courses on representation and urbanism. She is also in private practice with Weiss/Manfredi architects of New York. She studied architecture at the University of Virginia and Yale University. - Leonard Koscianski
Leonard Koscianski was born in Cleveland. A student of R. Buckminster Fuller, and noted American painter Wayne Theibaud, Leonard received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his Masters degree from the University of California, Davis. Leonard has exhibited his artwork throughout the United States and Europe. He is represented by the OK Harris Gallery in New York, the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Cumberland Gallery in Nashville. - Norma Bassett
Norma Bassett Hall Norma Bassett Hall and her husband, Arthur Hall, were among the founding members of the Kansas-based Prairie Print Makers. The group of artists formed the printmakers' society on Dec. 28, 1930, in the Lindsborg studio of Birger Sandzen. Not only was Mrs. Hall the only woman in the group, she also was the only one to establish a reputation exclusively through color prints, at first with her woodcuts, and later, her serigraphs. - Ellen Raskin
Ellen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 13, 1928. As a child during the Depression years, she "... had straight dark hair, tap-danced with two left feet, . . . had a singing range of three wrong notes, spilled ink on [her] best dress, lost [her] piano to a finance company..." and always had her nose in a book, according to her own account of autobiographical elements in her books, published in The Horn Book , December, 1978.
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