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|  Born in Athens, Illinois, Rowena Fry arrived in Chicago in the late 1920s and there had a career as a painter and screen printer. She had studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Ropp School of Art.
She described her paintings as "American Naive" and depicted numerous genre neighborhood scenes of people of the city's Near North Side. Her style and subject matter, which contrasted with social realistic views of industry and frustrated city dwellers among skyscrapers, placed her among the prevalent American Scene painters of the 1920s and 1930s. Fry's goal was to paint works that made people feel good and uplifted.
During World War II, from 1942 to 1946, she taught art classes at the Great Lakes Naval Station, and also did paintings of students participating in those sessions.
Exhibition venues included the Chicago Society of Artists and the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1937 to 1959, she did block-print calendars. Her work is in the collection of Abbott Laboratories.
Source:
Elizabeth Kennedy, "Chicago Modern"
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