Carnival Evening
Exhibited in Chicago at the Art Institute’s annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity from February 1 to March…
Thespian
Thesbian, painted at Tree Studio unknown who the ‘stander’ is Oil on Canvas 1948 42″ x 28″
Museum design
Grell ventured into architectural designs of museum interiors. This particular creation for an unknown location has the following statement incorporated…
Snow landscape
previous title Winter scene; oil on canvas, previous Ruth Thomy’s Santa Fe collection
Former Tree Studio Garden
Former Tree Studio Garden titled by artist on verso Painted by Grell during the time he chained himself to one…
Tree Studio Courtyard
Tree Studio Courtyard 1959 Oil on Canvas” 22″ x 18 1/8″ graphite on paper sketch, source:The Grell Spiral Sketchbooks collection…
Dante’s Inferno
oil on canvas, private collection
Discovery
Discovery 1960 Oil on Canvas 29.5″ x 58″ Grell painting until the day he died! Artists’ last painting, unfinished (varnish…
Apollo bust
oil on canvas, Chicago former student collection, hung inside the Chicago Theatre
The Spectrum of Life
Imagineered by Grell to represent the spirit of life; from beginning to end, and again oil on canvas, 20.25″ x…
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…
