Carl Krafft 1884 – 1938  

Through the Woods XIII, Landscape XIV, ca. 1920’s, oil

Krafft was the founder and first president (1921 - 1922) of the Art League.  He exhibited across the country and received many awards for his work in the 1920’s and 30’s.  His paintings are in many local collections (e.g. Art Institute of Chicago, Nineteenth Century Club, Dominican University).  In 1939 there was a memorial exhibit of Krafft’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Carl Krafft 1884 – 1938  

Through the Woods XIII, Landscape XIV, ca. 1920’s, oil 

Krafft was the founder and first president (1921 - 1922) of the Art League.  He exhibited across the country and received many awards for his work in the 1920’s and 30’s.  His paintings are in many local collections (e.g. Art Institute of Chicago, Nineteenth Century Club, Dominican University).  In 1939 there was a memorial exhibit of Krafft’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago. 

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Unknown Painter 

Untitled, oil

  This painting is in the Art League’s permanent collection, however little is known about the artist.  If you have any information, please share it with someone from the League. 

  This and many of the works in the collection are in need of restoration and preservation.  If you wish to make a donation toward this effort, please note the receptacles provided in the gallery.  

Cornelia Hawthorne (Connie Dowadkin)

Untitled, ca. 1920’s, oil

 Hawthorne graduated form the Art Institute of Chicago. She studied in Provincetown, MA at the Cape Cod School of Art. She exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rockford Museum, and in galleries in the Midwest and California. In the 1940’s and 50’s she served as an artist/draftsman for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. 

K.A. Buehr  (sp)  

Untitled, ca. 1920’s, oil

  BORN: February 2, 1866 Feuerbach, Wuertenberg, Germany

DIED: September 22, 1952 Chicago

TRAINING

1888-1897 Art Institute of Chicago, Graduated with honor 1894; 1899 Paris with Frank Duveneck; 1901, 1902, 1908-1913 Académie Julian with Raphael Collin; 1902 Académie Colarossi;1907-1909 London School of Art with Frank Brangwyn and Swan

Buehr showed early promise. In 1894 a critic wrote: "Karl Albert Buehr is one of the strongest of the Art Institute’s pupils. His work can safely be placed among the best… and would hold its own in any collection composed of the works of painters of established reputation." He became close friends with Frederick Frieseke whom he knew in Chicago and Richard Miller, the leading members of the American art community in Giverny. While his children played with Monet’s grandchildren, the two never met. Buehr had come to Giverny because of his association with Henry Salem Hubbell. The two shared the patronage of Lydia Coonley Ward from Chicago.

Source

Illinois Historical Art Project  (E-mail) P.O. Box 570, Techny, IL 60082-0570

http://www.illinoisart.org/index.html

  This and many of the works in the collection are in need of restoration and preservation.  If you wish to make a donation toward this effort, please note the receptacles provided in the gallery.

Charles Vickery 1913-1998   

Untitled, 1997, oil

Vickery studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Fine Art.  He became known as one of the finest seascape artists of the twentieth century.  He frequently sketched at the Chicago lakefront and the Indiana Dunes, and often credited Lake Michigan as being his greatest instructor.  This painting was completed at an Art League demonstration by Mr. Vickery the year before he died.  Mr. Vickery’s work is represented at The Clipper Ship Gallery in LaGrange, Illinois.

This painting is on loan from OPAL member Libby Sokol, who enjoys it, appropriately enough, in her Chicago lakefront home.