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1890 Kiev, Russia - 1981. Known for: Genre and figure painting, woodblock, etching, lithography, teaching.
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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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Musicians, Music Genre, Music
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Art Association
- •Chicago Society of Artists
Art Teacher
- •Charles Curran
- •Karl A. Buehr
Art School
- •Kiev Art Academy, Russia
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Russian
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Chicago Society of Artists-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts