dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
name: Norton
vorname: John Warner
wikidata-repräsentation: Q2198813
gnd-repräsentation: 119169312
biografische angaben: Born 1876 in Lockport, Illinois, died 1934. American illustrator, painter, muralist, and teacher. He was the most prolific muralist in the USA of the pre-WPA period, and his work progressed from an early Beaux Arts style to modernism in response to the direction of art in his time. He provided designs for the interior of Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens in 1914, unfortunately never realized, and continued to work in close collaboration with many ot the most important architects in Chicago. He was educated at Harvard University and the School of the Art Institute, where he taught composition, life drawing, illustration, and mural painting from 1910 to 1929 and became head of the Mural Department. Considered a "progressive voice in a conservative, academic school," he taught such students as Tom Lea, Ethel Spears, Archibald Motley jr., Theodore Roszak, and John Steuart Curry. During the 1920s he lived and worked in the Tree Studios, often assisted by Tom Lea.