Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Closed 1999

The Disappointed Tourist: Coffee Trader, Ellen Harvey, 2021. Oil and acrylic on Gessoboard, 18 x 24″ (46 x 61 cm). Photograph: Etienne Frossard.

In high school, I though the most glamorous thing in the world was going to the Coffee Trader on Downer Avenue with my friends to drink coffee and eat chicken fingers. Matthea H.

The Coffee Trader on Downer Avenue was the first “specialty coffee” venue in Milwaukee. It opened in 1974 and quickly became a social hub before closing at the end of the 1990s. The painting is based on an uncredited photograph.

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