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Todros Geller

Todros Geller (1889 - 1949) was active/lived in Illinois.  Todros Geller is known for Wood engravings, stained glass, painting.

Todros Geller, born in Vinnitsa in the Ukraine in 1889, first studied art in Odessa, Russia, then in Montreal, where he immigrated in 1906.  Seven years later he married and moved to Chicago, where he studied further at the School of the Art Institute (1918-23).  According to Sparks, Geller took lessons from George Bellows.  Bellows did indeed teach at the Art Institute School in the fall of 1919.  Geller began exhibiting at the Art Institute in 1925.  Two of his works were chosen to be illustrated in AIC annual exhibition catalogues: Jerusalem the Old (1929) and Reconciliation Dance (1930), and Geller exhibited his works there until his death in 1949. 

Geller joined the Chicago Society of Artists and served as president, eventually being named the "Dean of Chicago Jewish Artists."  In 1929 his painting Jerusalem the Old was illustrated in the catalogue of the Art Institute's thirty-third annual exhibition; that year Gelle   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6037 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Todros Geller


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Hand-Crafted Objects
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Art Association
  • Chicago Society of Artists
Art Teacher
  • George Bellows
Art School
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Chicago Society of Artists-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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