Ellen Lanyon (1926 - 2013) Original Watercolor Painting - Mid Century Modernist Figure

Ellen Lanyon (1926 - 2013) Original Watercolor Painting - Mid Century Modernist Figure

Size - Sight: 16 x 25" framed: 24 x 34"

Biography from Askart:

The following copy of the memorial tribute by the Art Institute of Chicago was submitted by Gene Meier. His source was the brother of the artist.

On behalf of the family of Ellen Lanyon, we invite you to join us for a celebration of her life.
Monday, December 2, 4:00 p.m.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Ballroom
112 S. Michigan Ave.

Ellen Lanyon passed away on the evening of October 7, 2013, most unexpectedly, at age 86, as she was returning from Cambridge, England, where she had been for the prior week, working on a series of new prints. Prior to her time in Cambridge, Ellen traveled to Cornwall, England, the home of her ancestry with which she felt a strong connection. With her family, she visited the cemetery where her Lanyon great-great grandparents are buried and other places where she had spent time early in her artistic career as a Fulbright scholar.

Lanyon has been an icon of the Chicago school for more than 60 years, painting in a way that harkens to both formalism and the realms of dreams and symbolism. Her works involve the most fanciful of still-lifes one could ever imagine, such as, the replication of intricate objects, like a small ceramic humidor in the shape of a frog smoking a pipe that first belonged to her grandfather, and the incorporation of natural elements in fantastical settings. Lanyon said that she felt she was a magician through her paintings, one "who can transform flowers into fire, create the animate out of the inanimate, and utilize osmosis and gravity to create illusion." And she did through items of nostalgia, rich color pallets, and dream-like scenarios that brought her scenes to life.

Lanyon made the transition to New York City as her primary residence and studio in the late-1970s, but her heart and home has always been in Chicago.

She has had more than 75 solo exhibitions and 11 museum exhibitions, including three major traveling retrospectives. Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Union League Club, Chicago; numerous private collections in the Chicago area; and other major museums and collections in the United States and abroad.

Education: Honorary Doctorate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007 The Courtauld Institute University of London, UK MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1950 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,1948

Lanyon has taught painting at several institutions including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Lanyon received several Armstrong Prize Awards and a Logan Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago, Fulbright Study Grant, Cassandra Foundation Grant, Herewood Lester Cook Foundation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Awards, Florsheim Art Foundation Grant, several Yaddo Fellowships, Ossabaw Island Project Fellowship, and two Purchase Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the Union League Club, Chicago; Century Association, New York City; and the National Academy of Design.

Ellen is survived by her husband Roland Ginzel, children Lisa Ginzel and Andrew Ginzel (Sarah Walker); grandson Walker Ginzel; brother Richard Lanyon (Marsha Richman); and other nephews and nieces. Ellen was the eldest daughter of the late Howard W. and Ellen M. Lanyon of Chicago.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made in memory of Ellen to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for the Ellen Lanyon Scholarship Fund. Contributions may be sent to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Office of Institutional Advancement, 116 South Michigan Avenue, suite 500, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

Notes: the art is good, the frame and the plexi glass have some issues - as pictured, as shown

$300 - $600

16" x 25"

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