A Handsome Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Black Male Model in Profile by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon

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A Handsome Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Black Male Model in Profile by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). … Read more A Handsome Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Black Male Model in Profile by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A wonderfully executed studio portrait study, the drawing is charcoal on paper and dates from 1951. Artwork size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches; Artwork is unframed. Matted / floated to archival mat board measuring 16 x 12 inches (ready to frame). Signed and dated Harold Haydon 28-II-51, lower right. Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the artist.

Harold Emerson Haydon was born in 1909 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada. He moved to America, settling in Chicago with his family in 1917 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1941. Haydon attended the University of Chicago Lab School and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Philosophy. He also studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1930s. Haydon became a Professor of Art at the University of Chicago from 1944-1975 and later taught as an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1975-1981. From 1975-1982, Haydon also taught as an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University. He is recognized for his vibrant, painterly landscapes of New England, Vermont and Canada, as well as his dynamic urban views of the city of Chicago and its picturesque lakefront.

Harold Haydon served as the respected, longtime art critic of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper from 1963-1985. He died in Chicago in 1994. See less