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Rudolph Weisenborn (1879-1974) Abstract Oil on Canvas Circa 1957

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Rudolph Weisenborn (1879-1974) Colorful abstract painting in heavy impasto oil on canvas by renowned Chicago artist Rudolph Weisenborn. Signed on bottom right front Wesisenborn '57. In original wood frame. BORN: October 30, 1879[1] Chicago DIED: March 15, 1974 Chicago MARRIED: 1922 Alfreda “Fritzi” Gordon[2] of St. Joseph, MO TRAINING 1898 University of North Dakota 1905-1907 Students School of Art, Denver, Henry Reed[3] 1907-1910 Jean Mannheim School of Art, Denver ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT[4] c.1910 Commercial illustration, Denver c.1910 Portrait sketches, Denver Post 1913 Window designer for Marshall Field and Company 1922 Illustrated for The Wave c.1930s Diorama, Fight Against Soil Erosion, Tennessee Valley Authority[5] 1931 Lecture, The Abstract in Painting, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago 1933 Mural Machine Movement[6], Pavilion No. 4, General Exhibits Building, A Century of Progress World’s Fair, Chicago[7] 1934-1939 Federal Art Project, easel and mural division[8] 1936 Mural, Contemporary Chicago, Louis Nettelhorst Elementary School, Chicago[9] 1937 Mural, Richard Crane Technical High School, Chicago: Electricians; Boilermakers Pipe Fitters, and Architects and Steelworkers[10] TEACHING 1922 Chicago Hull House[11] 1920-1937,[12] 1939[13] Chicago Academy of Fine Arts 1935-1964 Weisenborn School of Modern Art [privately], Chicago[14] RESIDENCES 1879-1888 Chicago 1888-1905 North Dakota 1893 Wisconsin 1894 Minnesota and Oklahoma 1905-1910 Colorado 1910-1913 Cripple Creek, CO c.1913[15]-c.1960 Chicago;[16] 1940s-1960s Santa Fe, New Mexico (summers)[17] c.1960-1974 Oak Park, Illinois TRAVEL c.1930s Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1950 Provincetown, Massachusetts[18] MEMBERSHIPS/OFFICES All-Illinois Society of Fine Arts (advisory board 1926) American Abstract Artists[19] Artists’ Equity Association, Midwest (president 1952) Artists’ League of the Midwest (charter member 1947)[20] Artists’ Union, Chicago Chapter (executive committee/founder)[21] Cor Ardens (vice president, 1921-1922; treasurer 1922-1923) Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists (founder, president 1922-1926)[22] Chicago Society of Artists (board 1926-1927) Independent Society of Artists, Chicago Introspectives, Chicago[23] Neo-Arlimusc (founder, president 1926-1928)[24] Palette & Chisel Club Society of Independent Artists HONORS 1928 Honorable Mention architectural subject, Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual[25] 1931 Third Honorable Mention, Ninety and Nine Artists[26] 1941 Prize, Laura Davidson Sears Academy of Fine Arts, Elgin, Contemporary American Art 1957 William H. Tuthill Prize, Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity JURIES SERVED Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1923 Chicago Society of Artists annual 1924 Covenant Club under auspices of American Jewish Artists Club, First Annual Exhibition by Jewish Artists of Chicago and Vicinity 1936[27] Jewish Education Building, Chicago under auspices of American Jewish Artists Club, Annual Exhibition by Jewish Artists of Chicago and Vicinity 1955, 1956[28] Sears Academy of Fine Arts annual, Elgin, Illinois 1941 South Side Swedish Club, Chicago Artists of Swedish Descent GROUP EXHIBITIONS All-Illinois Society of Fine Art annual 1926, 1927 American Abstract Artists, annuals 1938-on American Art Congress 1937 Art Institute of Chicago, A Half Century of American Art 1939 Art Institute of Chicago, Abstract and Surrealist American Art 1947 Art Institute of Chicago, Abstractions By Eight Artists 1942 Art Institute of Chicago, American Annual 1928, 1929, 1939, 1941-1943, 1945, 1947 Art Institute of Chicago, American Watercolors 1923, 1925,[29] 1931, 1934, 1942-1944, 1946, 1949 Art Institute of Chicago, Federal Art Project 1938[30] Art Institute of Chicago, Room of Chicago Art 1945 Art Institute of Chicago, Society For Contemporary American Art 1953 Art Institute of Chicago, Work by 17 Chicago Artists, [work from the W.P.A.] 1936[31] Art Institute, Chicago & Vicinity 1918, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1943, 1948, 1949 Artists Equity Association, Chicago 1950, 1951 Artists League of the Midwest 1947, c.1950 Associated American Artists Galleries, Chicago 1950 Association of American Artists, Chicago, Artists-Teachers 1950 Cedar Rapids Art Association 1921[32] Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists 1922-1926,[33] 1928[34]-1931,[35] 1932, 1934, 1938, 1941, 1957[36] Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists directors at Moulin Rouge café, Chicago 1926 Cor Ardens, Arts Club of Chicago 1922 Elizabeth Nelson Galleries, Chicago, Chicago Artists 1950 European Art Tour, under auspices of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter of Chicago 1924[37] Evansville, IN 1922[38] Findlay Gallery, Chicago, Best Paintings by Chicago Modernists 1933[39] Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Frank Holland Critic's Choice 1950 Paul Gaulois Gallery, Chicago, Inaugural Show 1926 Illinois Academy of Fine Arts 1926 Illinois Woman’s Athletic Club, Beidler Gallery, Men Painters of Chicago and Illinois 1927, 1928 Increase Robinson Studio Gallery, Chicago, Flower Show by Chicago Artists, 1932 Increase Robinson’s Studio Gallery, Chicago, artists invited to submit decoration themes for A Century of Progress World’s Fair 1933[40] Independent Society of Artists, Chicago 1918 Introspectives, Arts Club of Chicago 1921 Kroch’s Books Store Gallery, Chicago, Chicago Artists 1929 Madison, Wisconsin Art Association, Eleven Chicago Artists 1926 Magnificent Mile Art Show, Chicago 1955 Milwaukee Art Museum, Cor Ardens 1922 Moulton and Ricketts Gallery, Chicago 1913 Neo Arlimusc Society, Exhibition of the Nude, 1927 Neo Arlimusc Society, Bidding Sale, 1927 Neo Arlimusc Society, Themes of Chicago, 1927 Neo Arlimusc Society, Summer Exhibition (Radical Artists of Chicago), 1928[41] Neo Arlimusc Society, Chicago Moderns in honor of Julius Meier-Graefe 1928[42] Newark Museum of Art, Works selected from the Society of Independents 1926 Ninety and Nine Association 1931[43] Pageant of Progress at Congress Hall, Municipal Pier, Chicago 1921[43a] Palette & Chisel Club annual 1917,[44] 1918,[45] 1919 Palette & Chisel Club, Salon des Refuses 1919[46] Provincetown Art Association annual 1950, 1951 Renaissance Society, Drawings by Contemporary Artists 1943 Renaissance Society, Form at Play: Abstractions in Various Materials by Chicago Artists 1948 Renaissance Society, Paintings in Color 1955 Renaissance Society, Representative Works by Chicago Artists 1946 Renaissance Society, Works by Chicago Artists Loaned by Chicago Collectors 1941 Renaissance Society, Works Made for the W. P. A. 1934 Rothschild Department Store, Chicago, Salon des Refuses 1921 Society of Independent Artists 1924, 1926, 1934 St. Louis Art Museum, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest 1820-1940, 1977 Terra Museum of American Art 1992 Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Modern 1893-1945 2004 Visitors Tourist Bureau, Chicago, Progressive Chicago Artists 1933 ONE, TWO OR THREE MAN EXHIBITIONS 1915 Marshall Field & Co. Galleries 1917 Marshall Field & Co. Galleries[47] 1918 Moulton & Ricketts, (paintings of unique impressionism)[48] 1922 Grace Hickox Studio, Fine Arts Building, Chicago[49] 1922 The Piccadilly Tea Room, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, works in tempera[50] 1923 Marshall Field & Co. Galleries 1926 Chicago Randolph Theater[51] 1926 Washington Book Company, Chicago[52] 1927 Chicago Playhouse Theater[53] 1927 Stutz Petite Salon, Chicago[54] 1928 The Cube little theater, Chicago[55] 1930 Chicago Woman’s Aid[56] 1930 Chicago Galleries Association 1930 Chester Johnson Gallery, Chicago[57] 1932 Chicago Academy of Fine Arts[58] 1935 Quest Art Galleries, Chicago[59] c.1935 Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka 1936 Chicago Academy of Fine Arts[60] 1937 Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago, portrait drawings[61] 1938 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago[62] 1940 Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago 1941 (April) Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago 1947 Mortimer Levitt Gallery, NYC[63] 1948 Mortimer Levitt Gallery, NYC[64] 1950 Well of the Sea Gallery, Chicago[65] 1950 Palmer House art galleries[66] 1950 Gordon Artists Material Co. Gallery, Chicago 1951 Werner’s Books Gallery[67] 1951 Riccardo Studio Restaurant, Chicago[68] 1953 Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico 1953 Lawson Art Gallery, Chicago[69] 1956 House of Arts, Chicago 1965 Bernard Horwich Center, Rosenstone Art Gallery, Chicago 1974 Gilman Galleries, Chicago PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Chicago Public Library Illinois State Museum
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
  • Style:
    Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
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  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1957
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. Very small tear on the back of the canvas which cannot be seen on the front because of the heavy impasto paint. Frame shows age appropriate wear. minor craquelure..
  • Seller Location:
    West Palm Beach, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU5824237629782
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