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Gregory Orloff

Gregory Orloff (1890 - 1981) was active/lived in Illinois, Michigan / Russian Federation.  Gregory Orloff is known for Genre and figure painting, woodblock, etching, lithography, teaching.

Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950
Gregory Orloff, b. Kief, Ukraine, 1890–d. Union Pier, MI, 1981
Gregory Orloff was born in 1890 in Kiev and began his early art training with painter Vyacheslav Korenev at the Kiev Academy of Art. He continued his studies in the United States, first at the National Academy of Design* in New York with Charles Curran and Ivan Olinsky, and subsequently with Karl Buehr at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago*, where he absorbed his teachers’ preferences for figurative subjects, leisure themes, and the coloristic and decorative effects of Impressionism. Recalling his academic training, Orloff later stated that he had “to unlearn and undo what I had acquired.”

Orloff made his mark in Chicago in the mid-1920s, exhibiting portraits and scenes of daily life with the Chicago Society of Artists*, of which he was a member; the progressive Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists; and at the venerable annuals of the Art Institute of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8401 characters.]  Artist bio

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