1929 Art Deco Chicago VITROLITE Advertising Charles Turzak Illustration Bathroom

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1929 Art Deco ORIGINAL advertising for Vitrolite architectural glass - touting use for high style interiors - bathrooms with lovely illustrations by Chicago artist Charles Turzak. 12 x 9 inches. Great condition.  From The House Beautiful and featuring a verso with an ad for Capitol Boilers.
Charles Turzak was born August 20, 1899, in Streator, Illinois, the third child and only son of Czechoslovakian immigrant parents. His father was a coal miner who worked long days, so many rural chores occupied Turzak’s boyhood years. He escaped his duties to do what he enjoyed most: carefully carve miniature animals from peach seeds, which he would sell for pennies.
During his youth, Turzak learned woodworking from a neighbor, an English cabinet maker, and he apprenticed making violins soon after. He drew cartoons for his school's yearbook and sale bills for local merchants. In 1920, Turzak won a cartoon contest sponsored by the Purina Company, in St. Louis, Missouri, which helped him earn entrance to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). There, he excelled in drawing and woodcarving, and was awarded membership in Delta Phi Delta, an honorary art fraternity. He supported himself through freelance advertising, selling insurance, and teaching a class in woodcut and wood engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts. Turzak graduated from SAIC in 1924.
By the late 1920s, he gained public attention from exhibiting and selling prints of Northwestern University and Chicago landmarks such as the Chicago Water Tower, Tribune Tower, Buckingham Fountain, as well as watercolors of steel mills, boats, harbors, skylines, woodlands, parks, and still lifes. In 1929 he traveled to Europe to study the master painting firsthand, visiting England, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and France. He filled sketch books with drawings of the streets and countryside, flowing watercolor studies of people, markets, castles, churches, bridges, a carnival at Munich, even his parent’s home, Spisska Nova Ves. He returned to the United States just as the Great Depression set in.
12 inches x 9 inches.
Condition is good.  See images.
Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
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