Oak Park Art League

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Our History ​ The Oak Park Art League was founded after World War One, during a time when rapid changes were occurring in the American art world; Picasso, Cezanne, Matisse and other artists of the European avant garde entering the dialogue and visual vocabulary of artists, collectors and museums after the 1913 New York Armory Show and subsequent exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. In response, new art institutions were organized to provide venues for artists to discuss the radical new art forms of these European artists. In Chicago, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1915), Arts Club of Chicago (1916) and in 1919 artist, Carl Krafft, and other Chicago area artists began meeting in Krafft’s Oak Park home.

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