Indian Phantasy
c1930 design for a movie palace in Chicago This drawing once hung in Grell’s Downers Grove (IL) summer home where…
The Spirit of Light
Versions of The Spirit of Light (Apollo) were commissioned inside at least four different locations including the Chicago Theatre (1933),…
Four Toucans
A Grell mural study presumably for a ceiling or dome with tropical Toucan birdlike figures drawn into all four corners….
Pastel Friedl
portrait of the artists’ wife, Friedl graphite & gouache on paper, signed l/r “LOUIS GRELL 1928”
Lady with a Pearl Necklace
Heart of Hair – black and white photo of a portrait bust of an unknown young lady, possibly a student…
Abduction of Europa, Congress Hotel Chicago, IL
One of three walls designed and painted by Grell for the Pompeian Room inside the Congress Hotel Chicago, IL that…
Skinny Old Man
Conserved at the Gerald Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, NE This portrait is of the man who cleaned the artists…
Windy Walk
Santa Fe collection
1929 Health Posters
Six health posters for the 1929 anti-tuberculosis campaign held annually during the holiday season created for the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute…
Museum design
Grell ventured into architectural designs of museum interiors. This particular creation for an unknown location has the following statement incorporated…
Service Above Self
Possibly related to the Chicago Rotary Club mural. Mural study. Another unknown mural commission. watercolor gouache, 1928, California Grell collection
World War I Illustrator
National Parks Service link to Louis Grell article here After Grell was drafted into World War I he eventually ended up…
