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name: Walley
vorname: John Edwin
biografische angaben: 1910–74. American painter. He came to Chicago from Sheridan, Wyoming, and graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. His continuing studies included political cartooning, painting, and design with Rudolph Weisenborn, scenic design at the Goodman Theater, and large-scale architectural mural production. In 1933 he spent a year at the university of Wyoming teaching and painting, and he returned to Chicago to join a commercial firm where he designed sets and displays. For the WPA's Illinois Project, he completed murals for two Chicago high schools and became director of its design workshop in 1939. Appointed assistant state director for all projects in 1942, Walley supervised 2400 unemployed craftsmen, who were put to work producing equipment and environments for such government-sponsored projects as schools, state and city parks, hospitals, and zoos throughout Cook County and Illinois. After a stint in the army in 1943, working as a draftsman, camouflage expert, and traveling lecturer-teacher, he was asked to join the original faculty of László Moholy-Nagy's Institute of Design. Five years later it became part of Illinois Institute of Technology. He joined the Architecture Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1953 and became chair of the Art Department in 1971, where he was the innovator of many projects in art and design education. He lectured and wrote, always continuing to create art and furniture and to design interiors. His book The Influence of the New Bauhaus in Chicago: 1938–42 was published in Chicago in 1965.