The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
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1912 Urbana, Illinois - 2002. Known for: Streetscape, figure, interior painting.
A painter whose work was rediscovered in the late 20th century, Harold Noecker was born in Urbana, Illinois and remained active in Chicago as a painter in the 1930s and 1940s. He took art classes at... Read full biography
A painter whose work was rediscovered in the late 20th century, Harold Noecker was born in Urbana, Illinois and remained active in Chicago as a painter in the 1930s and 1940s. He took art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and was trained as an architect at the University of Illinois.... Read full biography
A painter whose work was rediscovered in the late 20th century, Harold Noecker was born in Urbana, Illinois and remained active in Chicago as a painter in the 1930s and 1940s. He took art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and was trained as an architect at the University of Illinois. Noecker's painting style was both surrealistic and realistic, "combining familiar objects in ways that are ultimately haunting and enigmatic." (Kennedy 135) Many of his houses and objects placed in... Read full biography
A painter whose work was rediscovered in the late 20th century, Harold Noecker was born in Urbana, Illinois and remained active in Chicago as a painter in the 1930s and 1940s. He took art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and was trained as an architect at the University of Illinois. Noecker's painting style was both surrealistic and realistic, "combining familiar objects in ways that are ultimately haunting and enigmatic." (Kennedy 135) Many of his houses and objects placed in interiors as well as figures are isolated in a manner that suggest haunting loneliness. It is thought that Noecker's single figures in interiors reflected the inner life of the artist himself. "Noecker also sometimes included a rushing figure or a hissing... Read full biography
A painter whose work was rediscovered in the late 20th century, Harold Noecker was born in Urbana, Illinois and remained active in Chicago as a painter in the 1930s and 1940s. He took art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and was trained as an architect at the University of Illinois. Noecker's painting style was both surrealistic and realistic, "combining familiar objects in ways that are ultimately haunting and enigmatic." (Kennedy 135) Many of his houses and objects placed in interiors as well as figures are isolated in a manner that suggest haunting loneliness. It is thought that Noecker's single figures in interiors reflected the inner life of the artist himself. "Noecker also sometimes included a rushing figure or a hissing snake, ratcheting up the mystery of the scene." (Kennedy 135) . It is likely that because of the closeness of his style to Chicagoan Gertru... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (4)
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Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
2004
(Exhibition catalog)Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor)176 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)1,117 pages