John Morris

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pencil and paper drawing of three South Side Chicago two-flats
This style of two-flat with large front stepped gables and ground level entrances are mostly on the NW and SW side of the city, particularly the SW side. I've never figured out why they are so heavily concentrated there. There are a few on the NW side in neighborhoods like Avondale and Mayfair too This is a miniature linocut print depicting 3 brick two-flats on the Southwest Side of Chicago. Printed with black oil ink on kitakata paper
Linocut print featuring three Chicago bungalows. The middle and right two flats are similar in appearance with square front bay windows and a ground level entrance. Despite the overall similar style there are many minor differences between the two, including castellated brickwork on the middle one. 4800 block of N. Kostner. All built in the early 1920s
A linocut relief print of residential buildings in Chicago, featuring a mix of styles. Romanesque on the far left, light Neoclassical in the left and middle. And a store and flats and building on the right features a mostly classical ornament with some Victorian whimsical ornament. The second building with ivy is colored green while the rest of the buildings are monochrome
Recruitment poster at Sokol Community Center at Elston and Kilbourn with a few Art Deco era typefaces
A linocut print of a 1920s yellow brick three-flat a few blocks west of Horner Park in Chicago. Color added to garden via oil pastel
Three Chicago two flats, all with a similar face but slightly different. 4x6 linocut print on kitakata paper
3200 block of Lake Shore Drive as the sun sets on winter time. Linocut print from 2018
Statue in midcentury courtyard apartment building as snow falls
monochrome linocut print showing cta #53 Pulaski bus stopped at Montrose
Linocut print of the 5200 block of N Clark showing a stretch of several commercial buildings
Five residential buildings dating from late 1800s to early 1900s (and a recent modern addition) on Augusta Boulevard near Ashland. The second from the left was a Polish grocery from around the 1900s to 1940s, and the center building was a tavern up until the late 1950s or early 1960s. Hand pressed linocut print on kitakata paper
work in progress carved and inked lino block showing chicago residential flats