"Civic Opera Building," art print by Richard (Dick) Richards, distributed as an art calendar for 1944 by James C. Thompson, president of the the 20 N. Wacker Corp., owner/managers of the Civic Opera Building.

Title

"Civic Opera Building," art print by Richard (Dick) Richards, distributed as an art calendar for 1944 by James C. Thompson, president of the the 20 N. Wacker Corp., owner/managers of the Civic Opera Building.

Description

Richard (Dick) Richard's 1943 distributed "Civic Opera Buidling, Chicago" calendar print, a black and white engraving, had attached, below the print, a small 1944 calendar with tear-off pages for the months.  Over or covering the print was a sheet of semi-transparent protective paper (attached through two holes at the top to similar ones in the print with a white cord tied connecting them), with "Seasons' Greetings" for 1943-44, etc. printed over the space for the print, showing through. It is signed by James C. Thompson, from 1936 to 1952 the president of the 20 N. Wacker Corp., owners and operators of the Civic Opera House.  

See the Special Collections finding aid for information about both artist Richard and James C. Thompson:

http://archon.lakeforest.edu/?p=collections/controlcard&id=92

For more history of the 1929-completed Graham Anderson Probst & White buidling and design, see: 

http://www.lyricopera.org/about/lyric-history.aspx

and 

http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1058/Civic-Opera-Building.php

For a more recent history of the building beyond the opera theater, see: 

http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/article/20120215/CRED03/120219881/civic-opera-building-sells-for-almost-126-million#ixzz1mrdMbeKf

Creator

Richard, Richard

Date

1943

Rights

http://www.lakeforest.edu/library/archives/permission.php

Format

document

Language

eng

Type

pdf

Files

Civic-Opera-Bldg.,-Richard-print-1944 calendar.jpg

Citation

Richard, Richard, “"Civic Opera Building," art print by Richard (Dick) Richards, distributed as an art calendar for 1944 by James C. Thompson, president of the the 20 N. Wacker Corp., owner/managers of the Civic Opera Building.,” Digital Collections - Lake Forest College, accessed October 5, 2024, https://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/4002.

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