Irene Siegel

Irene Siegel (born 1932) is an American artist. 
Early life and education.
Soiegel was born in Chicago to Russian immigrant parents. She grew up on the south side of Chicago, in Gage Park. At age 11, she was awarded a scholarship to take classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1953 she graduated from Northwestern University and went on to study social science at the University of Chicago. Around that time, she became a Moholy-Nagy scholar at the Chicago Institute of Design, where she earned her master's degree in 1956.
Career.
Siegel was a professor of art the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1970 until 1982. In1985 a fresco she had been commissioned to create at the Conrad Sulzer Regional Library in Chicago led to a community controversy over its content. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Norton Simon Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.