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Ellen Lanyon

A World Between Dreams and Reality: The Art of Ellen Lanyon Ellen Lanyon’s paintings are portals, inviting viewers into a realm where the familiar tilts on its axis and the subconscious takes visible form. Born in Chicago in 1948, her artistic journey began not within the hallowed halls of academia, though she would later attend both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Iowa, and even undertake postgraduate stu

dies at the Courtauld Institute in London on a Fulbright fellowship, but amidst the industrial landscape of her father’s foundry. This early exposure to the precise rendering of machine parts instilled in her a meticulous attention to line – a characteristic that would become a hallmark of her distinctive style. But it was a childhood visit to the “Midget Village” at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, an undeniably surreal spectacle, that…