Midwest Modernさんのイラストまとめ

Shirley Aley Campbell (1925-2018) was a lifelong Cleveland painter who developed a distinctive figurative realist style. She was best known for her depictions of the Cleveland night life, from musicians to burlesque performers and drag queens.

Paul Travis Bough (1891-1975) was another leading figure of the Cleveland School artists known for paintings of animals from Africa and Asia, especially tigers:

More of Charles Burchfield’s watercolor landscapes

Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) was one of America’s greatest watercolorists, creating an almost mythological world in his landscape paintings. Born in Ashtabula, OH and studied at the Cleveland School of Art, moving to Buffalo in 1921 where he spent the rest of his life.

Theo Wujcik (1936-2014) was born to Polish immigrants in Detroit and grew up on the east side. He studied and later taught at @CCS_Detroit and co-founded the Detroit Lithography Workshop in the 1970’s.

Examples of Ed Fella’s later signature style, including the typeface Outwest created in 1993. Fella was awarded the 2007 AIGA Medal: “By battering and mixing fonts, engaging in visual puns and generally violating the tenets of good design, Fella lets a thousand flowers bloom.”

Fella was born in Detroit in 1938 and graduated from the rigorous commercial art program at Cass Tech. He started his career as a commercial artist for auto companies but experimented with typography on the side, honing his craft making flyers and posters for local art galleries.

Charles Culver’s Michigan landscapes

Charles Culver (1908-1967) was another pioneering Detroit modernist painter, known for his impressionist paintings of Michigan landscapes and wildlife. He has over 90 works in the collection of the Detroit Institute Arts, more than any other Michigan artist.

Carlos Lopez (1908-1953) was born in Havana, Cuba and immigrated to Detroit at age 11. He was one of the pioneering modernist painters and the first prominent Latino artist in Michigan, with his first DIA exhibition in 1932.