MAGNUM OPUS
Grell’s large theatre mural designs combined are unquestionably his Magnum Opus. Commissioned primarily throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s where many…
Self Portrait 1917
Exhibited at Aeolian-Vocalion Music Hall (118 So. Michigan Ave.) show 1918 as part of the Art Institute of Chicago ACV…
Purple Cow murals
May, 2018 update – new murals DISCOVERED -All images Copyright protected- November, 2020 update – a new photograph of…
Fredricka in Gown
Mrs. Grell is shown wearing the gown worn by the artists’ grandmother back in Germany during the mid-nineteenth century. Grell…
Chicago Theatre
Commissioned 1921 & 1933 (thirty large murals total) The “Wonder Theatre of the World” was owned and operated by Balaban…
Manos/Palace Theatre, Greensburg, PA
The Manos Theatre was completed in 1926. Grell was commissioned to paint three large French fairytale themed murals inside the auditorium…
Times Square Paramount Theatre
The Paramount Building and Times Square Paramount Theatre was built at a total cost of $18 million dollars by The…
Ft. Wayne Paramount Theatre
The Ft. Wayne (IN) Paramount Theatre opened on October 3, 1930 and had two very large Grell murals located in…
Destiny
Destiny won the Harry Frank prize in 1930 at the Art Institute of Chicago’s annual Artists of Chicago & Vicinity…
Toledo Paramount Theatre
All ceilings and walls depicted here were designed and hand painted by Grell and his team of assistants. NOW SEEN…
Bacchus and Ariadne
This 1951 painting is a record of the central figures in Grell’s 1935 mural The Feast of Bacchus on Mount…
Pick-Durant PURPLE COW
-September, 2022 UPDATE- A visit to Flint in September, 2022, to Factory One, Kettering University Archives was a huge success…
