Illinois
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Bertha E. Jaques
Jaques was already a respected printmaker when she began making cyanotype photograms of wildflowers. An active member of the Wild Flower Preservation Society, she created over a thousand of these botanical images.
B. J. O. Nordfeldt
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt came to America from Sweden when he was thirteen. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, working for a Swedish newspaper before and after his classes in order to make money.
William Penhallow Henderson
William Penhallow “Whippy” Henderson and his wife, the editor and poet Alice Corbin, moved to the Southwest in 1916. His career thrived in New Mexico, where he created paintings and book illustrations, crafted furniture, and designed stage sets and architecture.
Richard Hunt
Richard Hunt started welding in his parents’ basement, and today his studio is a converted trolley station on the north side of Chicago. The sculptor needs this enormous space to hold the industrial welding material he uses to create his works.
Carlos A. Cortéz
Graphic artist, born in 1923 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cortéz currently lives in Chicago, where he has been active with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) since the end of World War II.