Robert Bruce Tague

Untitled (Chicago), ca. 1940

Watercolor on paper

15 x 11 inches (framed 23 x 19 inches)

Provenance: Estate of the artist

$1,200

#21683

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Robert Bruce Tague was born in 1912 in Chicago. He earned his undergraduate degree in architecture at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology in 1930 and accepted a post-graduate scholarship on the condition that he could produce his thesis under the direction of George Fred Keck, one of the few architects then designing in the International Style vocabulary. Subsequently he worked for Keck off and on for twenty years while teaching at the new Bauhaus in Chicago, known as the Institute of Design. Tague was an associate of Crombie Taylor's in restoring the landmark Auditorium Theater in Chicago, and was later a partner of Tristan Meinecke. Tague was an advocate of contemporary design throughout his career. He died in 1985 in Chicago.

Source: Art Institute of Chicago