A portrait of Chicago, decades in the making

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John A. Knudsen (1938-2014) was not the first artist to fall for Chicago’s transit system, and he won’t be the last, but few have used it as a motif over decades, across several media, the way he did. Knudsen’s oil paintings, watercolors, woodblock prints, etchings, and engravings teem with train cars and canyons of brick [] The post A portrait of Chicago, decades in the making appeared first on Chicago Reader.