May 2024 Issue: Ramberg (Digital Edition)
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The Other Oregon Trail
Searching for Familiarity, Old Friends and Lorado Taft, Forty Years Later
"My fondest childhood memories are set in White Pines State Park. Setting out from Chicago, I loved our two-hour drive from the city to Oregon, Illinois because I could see the countryside go from prairie flat to hilly. And I loved the cabin in which my family stayed, one of thirteen that had been built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s; they were constructed with massive logs, and inside each cabin was a fireplace and comfortable bed." (Natalia Nebel)
The Magus of Masonite
One of those two was Christina Ramberg, whose wedding was, no doubt, a portent of her artistic output: she’d make a habit of invoking solemn beauty where it’s least expected. The retrospective of her work at the Art Institute—the first since the University of Chicago’s Renaissance Society in 1988—is sure to inspire young artists possessing the creative fervor that she had." (Charles Venkatesh Young)
When He Grooved in Chi
"In early 1947, Terry Marion Southern, a slim, twenty-two-year-old Texan with thick dark hair and a courtly manner, came to Chicago to finish his college education. His time in the Army in Europe during World War II had given him a more cosmopolitan outlook, and he no longer wanted to finish a pre-med degree at Southern Methodist University. The racism in Texas appalled him. So he headed north, covering up his accent." (Mary Wisniewski)
An Unforgettable Discovery
Florence Price Goes to Vienna
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