Midwest Modernさんのイラストまとめ

Mitchnick was one of the few figurative painters working in the Corridor, and in her early days she painted amazing portraits of her artist friends. Now held at the DIA, these 1973 portraits feature Detroit artists Gordon Newton, Michael Luchs, Jim Chatelain, and John Egner

Nancy Mitchnick was born in 1947 and grew up in a working-class neighborhood near 6 Mile & Mound on the east side of Detroit. She became one of the stars of the Cass Corridor art scene, and eventually joined the first group to leave for New York City in 1973.

Carol Steen had her first solo show at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1973, then moved to NYC. Her paintings and digital work explore her experience living with synaesthesia. She co-founded the American Synaesthesia Association and is an advocate for synaesthesia research.

Gary Grimshaw grew up in the Detroit suburb of Lincoln Park with a circle of friends that included Wayne Kramer and Rob Tyner of the MC5. Grimshaw would become the official artist of the Grande Ballroom and one of the most legendary poster artists in rock & roll.

Stephen Ligosky helped found the Detroit Artists Workshop in 1964 and did illustrations for many of their early publications, including this sketch for a 1965 poetry collection. The bottom paintings are from his most recent Detroit exhibition, which was earlier this year.

The Detroit Artists Workshop

The Artists Workshop was founded 1964 in a space on Forest Avenue overlooking the Lodge Freeway, taking the various strands of avant-garde art and radical politics floating around the city and creating an identifiable Detroit art scene.

Born 1941 in West Virginia, Allie McGhee moved to Detroit as a child and graduated with honors from Cass Tech. His masterpiece “Black Attack” was created after the 1967 Riots, which marked a clean break from his early figural art to explosions of abstract expressionist color.

James Hiram Malone was a prolific and multi-talented cartoonist, painter, and graphic designer. He was born and raised in Atlanta but spent the height of his career in Detroit during the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Barton Myers & A.J. Diamond, Vidal Sassoon Salon (1970) Yorkville, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Myers & Diamond also designed a wild late 60’s interior for the Vidal Sassoon Salon at York Square.

Photos: Ian Samson
Via Record Interiors of 1971 https://t.co/TM2NMBXlzt

Skippy Velocipede Tricycle Series (1935-37) by Van Doren & Riedout for American National