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Mixed-media abstractions by Milwaukee artist Ida Ozonoff (1904-2007)
Ozonoff worked as a public school teacher and housewife for the first half of her life. She decided to pursue art later in life after her husband died, enrolling in classes at the former Layton School of Art.
Old Belle Isle Casino (1935) by Detroit watercolorist Freda Kroll (1917-2011)
Via @DHSDetroit
Paintings and ceramic figure by Wisconsin artist Mary Nohl (1914-2001). She was known to her neighbors as the Witch of Fox Point due to the strange sculptures covering the property of her suburban Milwaukee home: https://t.co/E3iLxlnyKJ
Paintings and sculptures by the visionary artist Stanisław Szukalski (1893-1987)
Szukalski was born in rural Poland and moved to Chicago in 1907, enrolling in the Art Institute at age 13. He became an important figure of the Chicago Renaissance as well as in his native Poland.
Paintings by pioneering modernist painter Manierre Dawson (1887-1969)
Born and raised in Chicago, he studied engineering at the Armour Institute of Technology then turned to painting after a 1910 tour of Europe. He worked out of a studio in Ludington, MI for most of his life.
Paintings by Ray Koppe
Koppe was born in St. Paul, MN and moved to Chicago in 1937 to study with Laszlo Maholy-Nagy at the New Bauhaus, where he later served as head of the Visual Design Department.
Chicago street scenes by Vienna-born painter Oscar Van Young (1906-1991), who immigrated to Chicago as a teenager after losing both parents during World War I.
Paintings by Detroit-born abstract expressionist Al Loving (1935-2005), who moved to New York City in 1968 after getting his MFA from @UMich
Paintings by Wisconsin regionalist Santos Zingale (1908-1999), born in Milwaukee to Sicilian immigrants.
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