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Ellen Lanyon was born on 21 December, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American painter (1925-2018). Discover Ellen Lanyon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 21 December 1926
Birthday 21 December
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois
Date of death 7 October, 2013
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Nationality United States

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1910

Later works frequently depict everyday objects imbued with both domestic and menacing overtones and have been compared to the metaphysical art of the 1910s and ‘20s.

Index came about from Lanyon's desire to catalogue the 292 items that appeared in her earlier artwork.

1926

Ellen Lanyon (December 21, 1926 – October 7, 2013) was a painter and printmaker from Chicago, Illinois.

She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), her MFA from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History and studied restoration at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

She also received an honorary doctorate from SAIC.

Her works are in the permanent collections of many major American museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Ulrich Museum.

Lanyon was born in Chicago to Howard and Ellen Lanyon.

1933

As a child she visited the "Midget Village" at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, a rather surreal experience that had a strong impression on her as an artist.

She attended Hyde Park High School and during this time held a part-time job as an artist in the foundry where her father worked, drawing machine parts.

She credits her careful rendering of line to this experience.

1944

In 1944, Lanyon was invited to a work-study program at the Ox-Bow School of Art.

It was her experience there - including her work at the Museum for the Contemporary Arts and the Department of Prints and Drawings - which inspired her to pursue painting and printmaking.

1948

In 1948, she completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

That same year she married classmate and fellow artist Roland Ginzel.

She also became a leader of the Exhibition Momentum, a juried venue started in 1948 in protest of the Art Institute of Chicago's annual exhibition.

Earlier that year, the Art Institute had restricted students from entering the juried exhibition.

In response, Lanyon joined with other students to recruit New York artists and curators to jury the Momentum.

Three years later, the Art Institute opened their exhibition to students again.

1950

Lanyon subsequently competed her MFA at the University of Iowa in 1950 and did postgraduate work at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, UK while on a Fulbright Fellowship.

This "sophisticated primitive" work continued until the late 1950's when she became inspired to paint larger works in oil.

Her works from this period (late 1950s to the 1960s) include portraits of relatives and the rooms they inhabited.

Several years later, Lanyon developed an allergy to the solvents used in oil painting.

Although Lanyon had worked in printmaking before, the allergy marked a major transition back to her earlier medium.

1953

In 1953, Lanyon returned to Chicago with her husband.

Together with three other printmakers from the University of Iowa, they founded the Graphic Arts Workshop (1953-1956).

Lanyon spent the early years of her career in her hometown, where she was often identified with the Chicago Imagists.

Her first paintings were of city-scapes.

1970

In the 1970s, Lanyon moved to New York City and became a member of the Heresies Collective, which created Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics.

1976

In 1976, Lanyon received a commission from the Department of the Interior to work in the Everglades, which she says "awakened [her] to the environmental crisis" and led to art with a heavier focus on flora and fauna.

Toward the end of her life, she began depicting objects from her collection of curios, many of which were inherited from relatives, such as a tobacco jar which once belonged to her grandfather.

The jar, which is shaped like a toad wearing a red waistcoat, appears in several of her works.

Lanyon's art has been characterized as Surrealist or Magical Realist, and she sometimes used the term "dreamscapes" to describe it.

Her fantastical compositions often feature animal, vegetal, and floral motifs.

2001

Over the course of three years (2001-2003), Lanyon created numbered, pen and ink drawings of each artifact and compiled them into five encyclopedic books: Personae, Folly Animale, O. J. Darr, Mechanique, and Smoking Guns.

Several of these drawings are accompanied by poems written by her friend, Lynne Warren, who was separately inspired by Lanyon's collection.

2002

In 2002, Index became a long-distance collaboration between Lanyon and Kip Gresham, a master printer and owner of The Print Studio in Cambridge, England.

Lanyon mailed her drawings to the Gresham, who printed two editions of the book.

Lanyon's Index was strongly inspired by Louis Poyet's wood engravings.

This relationship became clearer as Lanyon began creating Curiosity, a series of works that overlaid Index prints with Poyet's engravings.

2015

The perspective she choose was influenced by her travel on the Chicago "L", as well as the 15th Century Sienese paintings she viewed in the Art Institute galleries.