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Hyde Park art fair roots and postwar Chicago scene
The piece outlines how a 1947 49 Hyde Park art fair formed through Mary Lou Werner and collaborators from the Renaissance Society the Art Institute and U Chicago. It notes local galleries like Findleys Hollands and the Little Gallery as hubs plus figures such as Frank Bulliet Rudolph Weisenborn and Emil Armin. It details early abstractionist strides amid park district hurdles and Alderman Merriam support.
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John
Mary Lou
Hyde Park
Renaissance Society
Art Institute
University of Chicago
The
Maroon
Chicago
I. D., Art Institute
U. C
Associated American Galleries
Papers
Modern
Frank Bulliet
Daily News
Grant Park
Bulliet
Park District
Robert E. Merriam
57Th Street
Findley’s
Hollands
Rudolph Weisenborn
Curry and Benton
Alvin Albright
Mary Lou Werner
America
Gertrude and
Otto Natzler
Golf House
Ernest Dreyfuss
Morris and
Gail Barazani
Olive Vanduff Zielonka
Byron Goto
Elmer Klein
Emil Armin
Vi Fogle
Gertrude Abercrombie
Institute of Design
Sam Bordelon
I. D
Moholy