Midwest Modernさんのイラストまとめ

Architectural paintings by Chicago painter Harold Noecker (1912-2002). Noecker was born in Urbana and studied architecture at University of Illinois before moving to Chicago and turning to painting in the 1930’s.

New Deal posters by the Cleveland Division of Health & Cleveland Metro Housing Authority

Paintings and prints by Karamu House artist Elmer W. Brown (1909-1971)

Paintings by Charles Salée Jr. Sallée was born 1913 in Oberlin, OH and raised in Sandusky. He was awarded a scholarship to study art at Karamu House in 1932 and a few years later became the first Black student to graduate from the Cleveland School of Art.

Linocut prints by William E. Smith. Smith was born in 1917 in Chattanooga, TN and moved to Cleveland at age 13. He studied at the Cleveland School of Art and learned printmaking at Karamu House, Cleveland’s legendary African-American theater.

Backyard & living room. Eames drew the living room sketch from the perspective of the family dog.

Girard Through the Eyes
of Charles Eames

These images are from a November 1952 House & Home profile of Alexander Girard’s Grosse Pointe home as sketched and photographed by his good friend Charles Eames, “an unorthodox attempt to explain the special character of Girard’s work.”

Julian Stanczak (1928-2017) was another student of Josef Albers, studying art at Yale after graduating from the Cleveland School of Art in 1954. The genre itself took its name from Stanczak’s 1964 solo exhibition “Optical Paintings” in NYC.

Phyllis Sloane (1921-2009) was raised in Cleveland Heights and studied art at Carnegie Mellon alongside Roy Lichtenstein. She returned to Cleveland after college and developed her Pop Art-influenced figurative style, both as a painter and printmaker.