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officials. He was assigned the duty of driving an ambulance and chauffeuring the Red Cross officials from one region to another. Walter’s ambulance had Disney cartoons all over instead of the stock camouflage. This implied that Disney was obsessed with arts. After driving an ambulance for a short period, he resigned and went to Kansas City in the year 1919. Here he worked as a commercial illustrator and formed crudely animated cartoons. In the year 1920, he had accomplished his mission of…

Dudley Weldon Woodard, was an African American Mathematics Professor. Dudley went to a College called Wilberforce University in Ohio (1903-1906) he worked at a University of Chicago (1907). Dudley Weldon was born October 3(1881,Galveston Texas). Dudley died on a Wednesday in a Jewish hospital of old age on July 1,1965 in Cleveland Ohio. Dudley was a smart curious child Dudley’s father had a great job he worked at postal office . There is little or no information about Dudley…

in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905) and the Art Students League in New York City (1907-1908). O’Keeffe on April 3, 1917, had her first solo show. It was sponsored by John Singer Sargent, a artist Georgia admired very much and would later become her husband, featured charcoal sketches, which O'Keeffe had made in 1916. Stieglitz was captivated by them and begun also one of the most famous collaborations in art history. After her husband died in 1946, she…

Declaration of Sentiments an Grievances, demanding “equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women.” One hundred and twenty-six years later, Judy Chicago created The Dinner Party, a mixed media installation to celebrate the liberation of women and women artists from the tyranny of anonymity. Judy Chicago (once known as Judith Sylvia Cohen) was born in 1939, during a time in which woman were an important part of society but were still not treated equally. “I was…

Blute-Fin, Montmartre (1887), Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge (1892/95). I encountered these paintings in the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection at The Art Institute of Chicago. While observing these paintings, I discovered objects and motifs that suggest modern advancements in technology, fashion and architecture, while uncovering a connecting between Frances past and present. Van Gogh’s painting Terrace…

upon to in life. In this paper, I will look at how the monument in Chicago was put up in Lincoln Park to honor Goethe and his accomplishments as a renowned German poet and writer. It will also show the monuments history, how it got to Chicago and how it represents the pride of the German nation to German-Americans who live here as…

she began her art career in 1905 by studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. She continued her education a year later at the Art Student’s League of New York. After working in Chicago as a commercial artist for a while, she moved to Texas to teach art (“Georgia O’Keeffe: About the Painter”). Eventually she became supervisor of art in Amarillo Texas public schools (O’Keefe, Georgia). While teaching in Texas, O’Keefe became frustrated with her own work and stopped paining. Her love of art was…

Since I was about six years old, I’ve had an interest in architecture and interior design. After going to see a Kandinsky exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, I fell in love with the strange shape of the building rather than the ones in the modern artist’s paintings. A few years later, I went to Fallingwater and I bought myself Frank Lloyd Wright’s biography. For Christmas that year, I received the Lego kits for Fallingwater and the Guggenheim. I have been hooked on how modern Frank…

Steyerl - A case study of an up and coming Stakeholder in the Art Market. Hito Steyerl (b1966) Munich, is a filmmaker, philosopher, theorist and writer. Steyerl studied film at Tokyo’s Academy of Visual Arts and at the University of Television and Film in Munich. She also holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She is based in Berlin where she has been Professor for Experimental film and video, University of Arts Berlin since 2011. Some of her other lecturing…

LaToya Ruby Frazier is exhausted. She flew in from Braddock, Pa. to Chicago at the crack of dawn to speak at the Art Institute of Chicago in front of a packed crowd. Today is painless compared to the previous 365 days. She reflects on her weeks in Flint, Mich. where she documented Flint's horrific water crisis. The tragedy in Flint exposed thousands of children to high levels of lead. Back in her hometown of Braddock, Frazier's spent the last month around the clock at the local hospital by her…