Past tenants who have occupied the Fine Arts Building or its annex include:
– Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
– Sculptor Lorado Taft.
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– Cartoonist/illustrator John T. McCutcheon.
– Commercial artist William W. Denslow, who collaborated with advertising writer L. Frank Baum on ”The Wizard of Oz.”
– Frank and Joseph Leyendecker, German-born designers who were known for their national magazine illustrations, particularly Joseph`s drawings for the Arrow Collar Company.
– Florenz Ziegfeld Sr., founder of Chicago Musical College.
– Harriet Monroe, founder of ”Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,” which introduced such new talents as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay.
– Margaret Anderson, founder of The Little Review, a controversial avant- garde literary journal that later would publish James Joyce`s ”Ulysses”
in serial form.
– Portrait painter Ralph Clarkson.
– Opera singers Rosa Raisa and Siegfried Nielsen.
– Francis Fisher Browne, editor of The Dial, a conservative literary journal, and owner of a ground-floor bookstore.
– Drama teacher Anna Morgan, who staged the first American performances of certain plays by Shaw and Ibsen.