Dream of Flight by Harold Haydon, Amer., (1910-1994)

Linocut, The John Hay Fellows Print, 1961, 6-1/8 x 7-3/8, Ed. unknown, signed, titled, dated and inscribed The John Hay Fellows Print in pencil, on medium cream wove paper with full but uneven margins, a rich impression in fine condition. Harold Haydon was born in Fort William Ontario in 1910 and came to Chicago in 1917, earning his  masters degree in philosphy at University of Chicago. He attened classes in the 1930's at the Art Institute of Chicago and later taught there, at Indiana University and elsewhere. Prolific in many media, with a long distinguished career and artist, teacher and critic for the Chicago Sun Times is remembered for his strong modernist paintings and his enigmatic overlapping double portraits embracing his theory of "Binocular Vision", as seen here in his striking print Dream of Flight. Prints by Haydon are little known, but there is a lithograph by him in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. For more information on the artist, visit haroldhaydon.com