Portrait of the Broadway Actor, Flo Brooks
Florence “Flo” Brooks b1906; New York City Broadway chorus girl, dancer and actor; aka Flo Barrett Flo Brooks performed in…
Spiral Sketchbooks collection
April 2025 acquisition Collection includes six Brudno spiral bound sketchbooks with study’s for completed and many unknown paintings mostly on…
Salome’s dance
The story of Salome’s beheading involves her dancing for her stepfather, King Herod Antipas, who promised her anything she desired. Prompted by…
Indian Phantasy
c1930 design for a movie palace in Chicago This drawing once hung in Grell’s Downers Grove (IL) summer home where…
The Spirit of Light
Versions of The Spirit of Light (Apollo) were commissioned inside at least four different locations including the Chicago Theatre (1933),…
New Discovery Nov 2023
November 22, 2023 “Ever since I was a little girl, I have been familiar with the name of Louis Grell. …
Four Toucans
A Grell mural study presumably for a ceiling or dome with tropical Toucan birdlike figures drawn into all four corners….
Susanna bathing
The religious story of Susanna and the Elders involves two men who surprise a bathing woman, and the biblical account of David…
Sword fight
oil on canvas 14.5″ x 18.5″ source: color photo with painting dimensions written en verso graphite on paper sketch, source:…
Pastel Friedl
portrait of the artists’ wife, Friedl graphite & gouache on paper, signed l/r “LOUIS GRELL 1928”
NEW DISCOVERY Feb 2024
Grell utilized similar scenes and characters in different works. This European winter scene is similar to The Midnight Carol (Charol) (untitled,…
Abduction of Europa, Congress Hotel Chicago, IL
One of three walls designed and painted by Grell for the Pompeian Room inside the Congress Hotel Chicago, IL that…
