Louis Grell Collection
1918-2015
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Louis Grell (1887–1960) studied art in Germany and New York before beginning work as an instructor at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After five years there, Grell was appointed instructor of commercial art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. Primarily known for his murals and portraits, Grell’s career is documented in this collection through correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs of paintings and murals, brochures for the Daprato Statuary Company, and a drawing of his Stations of the Cross done for the Daprato Statuary Company.
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Typescript papers, printed papers, photocopies, black and white photographic prints, photomechanical prints, graphite drawings, ink drawings, mixed media and an architectural reprographic print with watercolor on paper.