1950s Grace Spongberg Landscape Drawing

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Grace Spongberg (American, 1906-1992) oil pastel on paper, estate stamp on reverse. This was in a folder with works by … Read more Grace Spongberg (American, 1906-1992) oil pastel on paper, estate stamp on reverse. This was in a folder with works by the artist of Arizona (mostly Tucson area) and parks and nature areas in the very far outreaches of the Chicago suburbs.

A life-long Chicagoan, Spongberg grew up on her Scandinavian immigrants parent's farm on the South Side. She trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Louis Rittman (1889-1963) and Albert Krehbiel (1873-1945). Spongberg exhibited many places including the AIC, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Cincinnati Art Museum, Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE), Renaissance Society (Chicago), Art Student's League, Smaland Museum (Sweden), Riverside Museum (NYC), Chicago Society of Artists (where she was a member), and the Swedish-American Exhibition where she was awarded the purchase prize in 1936 for "Washington Square, Chicago." She also exhibited ceramics at the Benedict Gallery at Hull House in 1951 with her fellow artist and roommate Hatti Hayes.

A WPA mural, one of two she completed, survives and was restored at Bennett Elementary School on South Prairie Ave.

Collections: Smart Museum at the University of Chicago and Block Museum at Northwestern University.

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