Acrylic

11×14

Bio:

Chicago native John Fennell has been a painter for more than 40 years. After graduating from Northern Illinois University, he attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago and then studied privately with artists Milford Zornes, Rex Bradt and Gianni Cilfoni. He later earned a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has exhibited in Chicago, Milwaukee and Hong Kong as well as in St. Louis, Fulton, Jeff City, and Columbia, Missouri. His work is in many private collections. He retired as a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism where he taught magazine writing, magazine publishing and design. Before teaching, he was a journalist and editor. A former newspaper reporter, he assisted the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko at the Chicago Daily News. For seven years he was the editor of the international design journal, Step-By-Step Graphics, before becoming editor-in-chief of Milwaukee Magazine.