Midcentury Chicago Painting by Frank Vavruska

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Wonderful mid-century painting of a manhole cover by Chicago artist Frank Vavruska. whose work has been featured by the Art … Read more Wonderful mid-century painting of a manhole cover by Chicago artist Frank Vavruska. whose work has been featured by the Art Institute and is very rare. In the original, chunky gold frame. Signed on the front with more artist detail on the back.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Frank Vavruska was born in Antigo, Wisconsin, to Czech parents. He studied art at University of Wisconsin (1935-38) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1938-41), where he took a BFA and was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship, which enabled him to paint and travel in Mexico (1941-42, again 1945-46). While hospitalized in England in the US Army during WWII, Vavruska produced many paintings which were the basis for a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945. In 1948, a painting of his was selected for the important Abstraction & Surrealism in American Art exhibition at the Art Institute, and the painting was reproduced in the show’s catalog. Vavruska worked for two years in the Yucatan Peninsula, was commissioned to make a mural for the Archeological Museum in Campeche, and developed an avid interest in the archeological richness of the region. The artist lived in Europe for six years, mainly in southern France, and he traveled in North Africa, Italy, Paris, and spent a year in London. See less