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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, The Art Institute of Chicago. Providing degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels,...
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John Waddell
John Henry Waddell (born 1921) is an American sculptor, painter and educator.
Waddell was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1921 and moved to Evansville, Indiana at the age of ten. There he began to study art at the Katherine Lord Studio, and by the age...
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, humorist, and commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer," Vowell has written several books and is a regular contributor to the radio program This American Life...
John Carl Doemling
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Sharon Rogers
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Shulamith Firestone
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Edward Wormley
Edward Wormley was born in 1907 in Rochelle, Illinois, and died in 1995. In 1926 he went to study briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago. Funds ran out and he went to work as an interior designer for Marshall Fields & Company department store....
Cynthia Rowley
Cynthia Rowley is an American fashion designer.
A native of Barrington, Illinois (an affluent northwestern suburb of Chicago), she is one of three children born to Ed Rowley, a former science teacher, and his wife, Clementine. She graduated from...
Victor Skrebneski
Victor Skrebneski (born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois) is a famous photographer born to parents of Polish and Russian heritage. He was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943 and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology...
David Sedaris
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is a Grammy Award-nominated Greek-American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor.
Sedaris was first publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay ...
John Cullen Murphy
John Cullen Murphy (May 3, 1919, New York City, New York – July 2, 2004, Greenwich, Connecticut) was a magazine and comic strip illustrator known for his work on the Prince Valiant comic strip.
Murphy attended the Art Institute of Chicago, where his...
Shawn Reddy
Shawn Reddy (born July 16, 1973) is a Chicago playwright and director.
Reddy received his BA in both Anthropology and Philosophy from the University of Chicago (1996), and his MFA in Studio Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001).
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926), sometimes known simply as Hef, is an American magazine publisher, founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises. In 2003, Arena magazine listed him second on the "50 Most Powerful People in Porn"...
Stieg Hedlund
Stieg Hedlund (born 1965 in Portland, Oregon) is a computer and video game designer, artist, and writer with over 20 years of experience who has contributed more than 30 iconic games to the game industry. Although he is probably best known for his...
Donald Sultan
Donald Sultan (born 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American artist, known for large-scale still life paintings executed with bold contrasts of bright color and deep black forms, tight, nearly abstract compositions, and unorthodox media....
Wendy W. Jacob
Wendy W. Jacob (born March 27, 1958) is an American artist who works as an urban interventionist.
Wendy Jacob received her bachelor's degree from Williams College in 1980, and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from the Art Institute of Chicago....
Vachel Lindsay
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American poet. He is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. His numerous correspondences with the...
Ida Applebroog
Ida Applebroog is a notable American painter who has lived and worked in Chicago since 1956. Her work is included in many public collections in the United States. During the decade of the 1990s, she received multiple honors including the College Art...
Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett Mora (born April 15, 1915) is an American-Mexican sculptor and printmaker. Catlett is best known for the black, expressionistic sculptures and prints she produced during the 1960s and 1970s, which are seen as politically charged....
Hope Larson
Hope Raue Larson (born 17 September 1982) is an American illustrator and cartoonist. Her main field is graphic novels; she is regarded as one of the most promising young female cartoonists of the 2000s.
Larson is of German and Swedish descent. She...
Al Buell
Alfred Leslie Buell (1910–1996) was an American painter of pin-up art. He was born in Hiawatha, Kansas in 1910, and grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma. He attended some classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, which, in concert with a trip to New York...
A. Y. Jackson
Alexander Young Jackson, CC, CMG (October 3, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec – April 5, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario) was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven.
As a young boy, Jackson worked as an office boy for a lithograph company,...
María Luisa Penne
María Luisa Penne de Castillo (1913- October 2005) born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was a painter, artist, and educator who taught and influenced the work of well known artists such as Noemi Ruiz and Maria Somoza, Director of the Museum of Contemporary...
Ralph Pomeroy
Ralph Pomeroy (1926 - 18 November 1999) was an American poet.
Born in Evanston, Illinois, and raised in Winnetka, Illinois. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois. At eighteen he had already published...
John Churchill Chase
John Churchill Chase (1905 - 1986) was a cartoonist and writer. He was known for his editorial cartoons and his works on the history of his native New Orleans and Louisiana in the United States.
After high school in New Orleans, Chase attended the...
Eugene Montgomery
Eugene Montgomery, a painter and illustrator, was born in Texas in 1905 and died in Aurora, Illinois on December 16, 2001 of complications from a broken hip.
Montgomery moved to Chicago in the 1920s to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. He began...
E. Irving Couse
Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936) was an American artist, noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest.
Couse was born in Saginaw, Michigan, where he first started drawing the Chippewa Indians who lived nearby. Couse...
Martin Nodell
Martin Nodell (November 15, 1915–December 9, 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name "Mart Dellon."
Born in...
Virginia Howlett
Virginia Howlett (born 1951 in Edmonton, Canada) is a designer and painter.
With an MFA in Painting from The Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia was one of the first designers hired into Microsoft in 1985. While there, she built the company's first...
Mark Tobey
Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American abstract expressionist painter, born in Centerville, Wisconsin. Widely recognized throughout the United States and Europe, Tobey is the most noted among the "mystical painters of...
Carl Augustus Heber
Carl Augustus Heber (1875–1956) was a German-born American sculptor.
Don Blanding
Donald Benson Blanding (November 7, 1894 – June 9, 1957) was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii". He was also known as a journalist, author of prose, and speaker.
Blanding was...
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in...
Thomas B. Allen
Thomas B. Allen (1928 – November 8, 2004) was an American painter and illustrator known for a moody and expressionist style that pushed the boundaries of commercial art in the 1950s and 60s. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was educated...
Steve Diet Goedde
Steve Diet Goedde (born Steven Paul Goedde on February 20, 1965) is an American fetish photographer. Known for his erotic photographs of women paired with fetish imagery, he has had his photos published in published two photography books, The Beauty...
Sam Kweskin
Irving Sam Kweskin (February 24, 1924, Chicago, Illinois – June 23, 2005), who sometimes worked under the name Irv Wesley, was an American advertising and comic book artist.
Growing up in Chicago, Kweskin drew as a child, and at 16 won a scholarship...
Art Green
Arthur Green (born 1941) is a well respected professor and painter. Green was a member of the notorious Chicago artistic group, The Hairy Who in the 1960s, a member of the University of Waterloo’s faculty for over 30 years and has been an...
Ben Stahl
Ben Stahl (born September 7, 1910- October 19, 1987) was an American artist, illustrator and author. He showed precocious talent, winning a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago at age twelve. His artwork appeared in the International...
Herblock
Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October 13, 1909 – October 7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author.
During the course of his long career, he won three Pulitzer Prizes (1942, 1954, 1979), the Presidential Medal...
Richmond Barthé
James Richmond Barthé (January 28, 1901 – March 5, 1989) was an African American sculptor known for his many public works, including the Toussaint L’Ouverture Monument in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and a sculpture of Rose McClendon for Frank Lloyd Wright...
Gahan Wilson
Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois) is an author, cartoonist, and illustrator in the United States.
Wilson's cartoons and illustrations are drawn in a playfully grotesque style, and have a dark humor that is often compared to...
Richard Estes
Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as...
George Grey Barnard
George Grey Barnard (May 24, 1863 – April 24, 1938) was an American sculptor. Barnard was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Kankakee, Illinois, the son of Joseph Barnard and Martha Grubb, and the grandson of his namesake George Grey...
Sueo Serisawa
Sueo Serisawa (April 10, 1910 - September 7, 2004) was a Japanese American who became an important modernist of the Los Angeles school.
Serisawa's painting genres included Impressionism, Modernism, Regionalism, Expressionism, and Abstraction. He...
Red Grooms
Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Groom was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of...
Francis Chapin
Francis Chapin (February 14, 1899–February 23, 1965) was an American artist. His works included both watercolors and oil paintings of landscapes and portraits.
He was born in Bristolville, Ohio and received his undergraduate degree at Washington and...
John Chamberlain
John Angus Chamberlain (born April 16, 1927) is an American sculptor.
Born in Rochester, Indiana, John Chamberlain spent much of his youth in Chicago. After serving in the navy from 1943 to 1946, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago (1951–52)...
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician,...
Dulah Marie Evans
Dulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel (1875-1951) was an American painter,photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher.
She was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She attended William Penn University and graduated from The Art Institute of...
Barbara Rossi
Barbara Rossi (born 1940) is a Chicago artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. She first exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969. She is known for meticulously...
Halston
Roy Halston Frowick, also known as Halston (April 23, 1932 – March 26, 1990) was a clothing designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques.
Roy Halston Frowick was born on April 23,...
Adam Emory Albright
Adam Emory Albright (1862 – 1957) was a painter of figures in landscapes. He was born in Monroe, Wisconsin and spent his working life in Warrenville and the Chicago area.
The artist studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (later the Art...
Luis Gispert
Luis Gispert (born Jersey City, New Jersey U.S., 1972) is an American sculptor and photographer, living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Luis Gispert earned an MFA at Yale University in 2001, with a 1996 BFA in Film from Art Institute of Chicago,...
Peter Sotos
Peter Sotos (born April 17, 1960) is a Chicago-born writer and musician. In his books, Sotos examines sadistic sexual criminals and sexually violent pornography, particularly involving children. His writings are interpreted by some as commenting on...
Frederick Carl Frieseke
Frederick Carl Frieseke (April 7, 1874 – August 24, 1939) was an American Impressionist painter.
He was born in Owosso, Michigan and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie Julian in Paris. Frieseke and his family...
Minerva J. Chapman
Minerva J. Chapman (1858 - 1947) was an American painter. She was known for her work in miniature portraiture, landscape, and still life.
She was born in Sand Bank, New York and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She studied at a number of institutions...
Robert Lostutter
Robert Lostutter (born 1939) is a Chicago-based artist. He was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a breakaway group of surrealist iconoclasts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who showed in the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969 and later....
Ivan Albright
Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (February 20, 1897 – November 18, 1983) was an American magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes.
Ivan Albright and his identical twin brother, Malvin, were...
Jol Dantzig
Jolyon C. Dantzig (Jol Dantzig) is known as a guitar designer, guitarist, luthier, and one of the founders of Hamer Guitars.
A native of Evanston, Illinois, Jolyon (Jol) Dantzig began playing guitar and piano in grade school. He studied guitar with...
Art Paul
Art (Arthur) Paul (b. January 18, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American graphics designer and the designer of the Playboy rabbit-head logo.
Art Paul was born in the Southwest Side of Chicago, but his family later moved to Rogers Park. There,...
Ulric Ellerhusen
Ulric Henry Ellerhusen (1879 - 1957) first name variously cited as Ulrich or Ulrik, surname sometimes cited as Ellerhousen) was a German-American sculptor and teacher best known for his architectural sculpture.
Ellerhusen was born on April 7, 1879...
