This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Anyone who passed through downtown Chicago in the 1970s or ’80s might have encountered a weathered blond woman wearing a rabbit fur coat and men’s orthopedic slip-ons as she hawked her art on Michigan Avenue. If you looked like a prospective buyer, she would slowly, seductively, unfurl her latest canvas as you approached. Frenchy,” a racy hit from World War I, was her favorite. The eccentric “bag lady,” as she was often called, was Lee Godie, one of the city’s most iconoclastic artists.

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Persons: unfurl, Lee Godie Locations: Times, Chicago, Michigan