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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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12 Book References for Todros Geller
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor) Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
(Exhibition catalog)
176 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1979 Yochim, Louise Dunn Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists 297 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1947 Lozowick, Louis One Hundred Contemporary American Jewish Painters and Sculptors 207 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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