Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950. Gregory Orloff, b. Kief, Ukraine, 1890–d. Union Pier, MI, 1981. Gregory Orloff was born in 1890 in Kiev and began his early art training with... Read full biography
Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950. Gregory Orloff, b. Kief, Ukraine, 1890–d. Union Pier, MI, 1981. Gregory Orloff was born in 1890 in Kiev and began his early art training with painter Vyacheslav Korenev at the Kiev Academy of Art. He continued his studies in the United States,... Read full biography
Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950. Gregory Orloff, b. Kief, Ukraine, 1890–d. Union Pier, MI, 1981. Gregory Orloff was born in 1890 in Kiev and began his early art training with painter Vyacheslav Korenev at the Kiev Academy of Art. He continued his studies in the United States, first at the National Academy of Design* in New York with Charles Curran and Ivan Olinsky, and subsequently with Karl Buehr at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago*, where he absorbed his... Read full biography
Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950. Gregory Orloff, b. Kief, Ukraine, 1890–d. Union Pier, MI, 1981. Gregory Orloff was born in 1890 in Kiev and began his early art training with painter Vyacheslav Korenev at the Kiev Academy of Art. He continued his studies in the United States, first at the National Academy of Design* in New York with Charles Curran and Ivan Olinsky, and subsequently with Karl Buehr at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago*, where he absorbed his teachers’ preferences for figurative subjects, leisure themes, and the coloristic and decorative effects of Impressionism. Recalling his academic training, Orloff later stated that he had “to unlearn and undo what I had acquired.”. Orloff made his mark in... Read full biography
Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950. Gregory Orloff, b. Kief, Ukraine, 1890–d. Union Pier, MI, 1981. Gregory Orloff was born in 1890 in Kiev and began his early art training with painter Vyacheslav Korenev at the Kiev Academy of Art. He continued his studies in the United States, first at the National Academy of Design* in New York with Charles Curran and Ivan Olinsky, and subsequently with Karl Buehr at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago*, where he absorbed his teachers’ preferences for figurative subjects, leisure themes, and the coloristic and decorative effects of Impressionism. Recalling his academic training, Orloff later stated that he had “to unlearn and undo what I had acquired.”. Orloff made his mark in Chicago in the mid-1920s, exhibiting portraits and scenes of daily life with the Chicago Society of Artists*, of which he was a member; the p... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (6)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists