Tag Archives: mural artists in Illinois
Museum of Science and Industry Space Center, Chicago IL
Evanston 2020 Mural Art Project, Evanston IL
Jesus Was a Plumber?
A long time ago, when I was working as a custom cabinetmaker and doing murals as a sideline, I was hired to paint a religious scene in the lunchroom at a Catholic hospital in a rural Illinois town. Supervising me would be the half-dozen-or-so nuns from the order that had founded the hospital. Continue reading
Brookfield Zoo Great Bear Wilderness, Brookfield IL
Brookfield Zoo Habitat Africa Okapi Exhibit, Brookfield IL
Airplanes
The first commercial flight I took in 1957 was as a boy with my family, from New Orleans to Los Angeles. All of the men on the plane wore suits, I wore a coat and tie. My sisters wore frilly dresses. We checked our luggage and walked from the terminal at Moisant Field (now Louis Armstrong International Airport), across the open tarmac and climbed the rolling staircase into the fuselage. Continue reading
Red Oak Nature Center, North Aurora IL
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago IL
Mostly True Tales, a Foreword
In the interest of full disclosure, I feel obligated to use the qualifier “mostly” about these stories, not because I intend to be a bit deceptive but because some of them go back 30 years or more and have been retold countless times. Continue reading