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Louis Frederick Grell (1887-1960) was a Chicago based portrait artist and mural painter. Grell earned countless commissions to paint his…
Purple Cow murals
Albert Pick Hotels Corporation Imagineered and hand drawn by Louis Grell, an estimated seventy individual Purple Cow murals were installed…
Doris Day Purple Cow song
Is it possible that Doris Day was inspired to sing a song about Purple Cows based on Louis Grell murals?…
Hotel Durant, Flint, MI
Pick-Durant Purple Cow restaurant Construction of the eight story Hotel Durant structure began in 1919 and was opened in 1920. …
Hotel Jermyn, Scranton, PA
One of the Albert Pick Hotels Corporation properties. There was a Purple Cow shop and a Manhattan room all with…
Hotel Raleigh, Waco, TX
-LOBBY MURAL- The Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth cloak scene mural hung high above the Raleigh Hotel registration office…
Chicago Theatre
Commissioned 1921 & 1933 (thirty large murals total) The “Wonder Theatre of the World” was owned and operated by Balaban…
Times Square Paramount Theatre
The Paramount Building and Times Square Paramount Theatre was built at a total cost of $18 million ($327m in 2025)…
Ft. Wayne Paramount Theatre
The Ft. Wayne (IN) Paramount Theatre opened on October 3, 1930 and had two very large Grell murals located in…
Toledo Paramount Theatre
All ceilings and walls depicted here were designed and hand painted by Grell and his team of assistants. NOW SEEN…
Gateway Theatre, Chicago
All ceilings and walls were hand painted by Grell and his team of assistants. Opened in June 1930 and was…
Birth of Electricity
This large painting was purchased by a Chicago artist from the Romano Galleries at Tree Studios artist colony, Chicago, in…
