$1,350Sale Price|25% Off
Pulitzer prize-winning playwright David Mamet, signed by Jack Mitchell
By Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright David Mamet, 1977, signed in pencil on the reverse by Jack Mitchell signed by Jack Mitchell on the ver...
Silver Gelatin
$960Sale Price|20% Off
Twelfth Night Color Lithograph Print, Hand Signed, Contemporary, 1981
By Donald Sultan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This limited edition color lithograph poster was created for the 1981 production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by David Mamet, a close associate of Donald Sultan.
Offset
Pomegranates
By Donald Sultan
Located in Miami, FL
In addition to his paintings, Sultan has collaborated with the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet on the illustrated novel Bar Mitzvah (1999).
Screen
Eyeball Freak, Circus Side Show Curiosity, Silver Gelatin Print, Framed, 1952
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Tracks to War, New Jersey, 1943, Black and White Photograph, Signed, Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
A Farm Grandma Waiting for Kids, Archival Pigment Print, 1951, B&W
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Young Pool Shark, Chicago 1949, Black & White Photograph, Framed, Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Mafia Boss Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo in Front of Big Lion, Chicago 1959
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Titter, Scantily Clad Woman Viewing Titter Magazine, 1950 Vintage Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Safari Bath, 1955 - Contemporary Archival Pigment Print, Unframed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Damen and Division Street circa 1949, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Fallen Starr, 1966, Vince Lombardi Bawling Out Bart Starr, Green Bay Packers
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Gale Sayers #40, 1966 - Color Photograph by Art Shay for Sports Illustrated
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
$3,000
60-Lombardi-66, 1962, Green Bay Packer Coach Flanked by Ed Blaine & Ray Nitschke
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Mock Duel Between Nelson Algren and Marcel Marceau, Chicago, 1958
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Backyard Olympics - kids playing in the backyard circa 1949, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Marcel Marceau Shopping on Maxwell circa 1956, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Maxwell Street Dog, Silver Gelatin Print, Signed, 20x16 in
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Nelson Algren at Comsiky Park circa 1949, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Hedda Hopper - Hat Lady, Hollywood circa 1956, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
$3,000
Man with the Golden Arm - poker table with Algren circa 1949, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
The Nixons on LaSalle Street, Chicago, 1968, Color Photograph, Signed on Back
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Andy Griffith on Train in Nashville, 1961, Black and White Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Two Leopards Spotted, Chicago 1974, Brookfield Zoo, Signed and Framed.
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
$3,000
Car Reflection, 1958, Black and White Photograph Appeared in LIFE Magazine
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
$2,500
Nakedly Patriotic, 1970, Peaceful Gathering, Nude Female, Archival Pigment Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
$3,000
Seurat's A La Grande Jatte w Marcel Marceau, Chicago, 1958, Black & White Photo
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Observant Father, 1949, Chicago, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
$3,000
Jessica Lange at her Minnesota Cottage, 1976, Black and White Photograph, Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Street Transaction, 1949 Vintage Silver Gelatin Print, Signed, Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Vegas, Hotel Signs, Homage to Mondrian, Color Street Photography by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
JFK in Profile, 1960 - Color Photograph Matted and Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Marlon Brando, Libertyville, Illinois, 1950 - Silver Gelatin Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Blues Guitarist, Buddy Guy, 1966, Playing Guitar, Framed Photograph by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
$3,000
Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, Las Vegas 1961, The Rat Pack, Black & White Photo
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
The Man With the Golden Arm, 1949, Nelson Algren as the Dealer, Silver Gelatin
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Leaf
$3,000
Caitlyn Bruce Jenner, Montreal Olympics, 1976, Black and White Photograph Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Palmer Ready to Win His 2nd Masters, Augusta, Georgia 1960, Vintage Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Woman in Sheer Dress, Silver Gelatin Black & White Photograph by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Lombardi Huddle, Green Bay Packer Coach Vince Lombardi 1966 by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Building of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, 1963, Silver Gelatin Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Boy With Fish - Black & White Silver Gelatin Photograph, Signed and Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
$3,000
Brooklyn, Illinois, Twins, 1952 - For Ebony Magazine in Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, IL
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Maxwell Street Dog, Black & White Street Photography, Chicago, 1953 by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
$3,000
Killers For Hire, JFK, South Dakota 1960, Black and White Photograph by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Liz Taylor Smelling Smell-O-Vision, Chicago, 1960 With Eddie Fisher
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
One of Diamond and Thirteen of Diamonds
By Donald Sultan
Located in Missouri, MO
He has been a Visiting Artist at the Santa Fe Art Institute, and collaborated with the playwright David Mamet on the book, Bar Mitzvah.
Engraving, Aquatint
$3,000
Fallen Starr, Color Photograph of Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi in 1966, Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
$2,000
Marimekko Ducks, Oil Canvas, American Art, Realism, Tchotskes Quirky Objects
By MAUREEN O'CONNER
Located in Houston, TX
Her artwork appeared in David Mamet’s film, “Lipservice,” an HBO production filmed in Boston.
Oil
$1,450
Candy Jar, Oil on Canvas, American Artist, Realism, Tchotskes AKA Quirky Objects
By MAUREEN O'CONNER
Located in Houston, TX
Her artwork appeared in David Mamet’s film, “Lipservice,” an HBO production filmed in Boston.
Oil
Three to Four Ages of Women - Black and White Street Photography by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Boxing Great, Rocky Graciano in Locker Room After Fight, 1948
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Martin Luther King Speaking at Soldier Field, Chicago 1966
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Wrassle Mania, 1975, Multi-Exposure Black and White Photograph, Framed, Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Marlon Brando Kissing Dog, Libertyville, IL 1950 - Large Format Black & White
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Green Bay Packer Bart Starr vs Detroit Lions Roger Brown, 1962 (vintage)
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
"Man of Steel" Tony Zale Coaches CYO Youth, 1950, Signed, Black & White Photo
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 40 in W 40 in D 2.375 in
Red Poppies in Cement (signed acrylic and concrete print on aluminum)
By Donald Sultan
Located in Aventura, FL
In addition to his paintings, Sultan has collaborated with the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet on the illustrated novel Bar Mitzvah (1999).
Concrete, Metal
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H 35 in W 35 in D 1 in
Blue Poppies Aug 17, 2022 (framed, hand signed silkscreen)
By Donald Sultan
Located in Aventura, FL
In addition to his paintings, Sultan has collaborated with the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet on the illustrated novel Bar Mitzvah (1999).
Enamel
Field Practice in the Wrigley Vines, Chicago, 1961
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Liz Taylor at the Pump Room, Chicago 1960
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Muddy Waters and His Wife, Geneva, 1951
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
JFK Surrounded by Ohio Crowd, 1960
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Bachelor's Needs, 1963
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Cassius Clay (Ali) In Lockerroom, Louisville 1961
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
The Supremes, Supremely Tired, Detroit 1965
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Rat Pack, Las Vegas 1961
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Ali Knocking Out Miteff, Louisville 1961
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Roma 1954
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Martin Luther King at Chicago Freedom Rally, Soldier Field, 1966
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
I Am A Man
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Thirty Seconds with Johnny Cash, Nashville 1961
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
James Baldwin, Deerfield, IL 1959, Deerfield Integration Rally
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Bobby Hull, Stanley Cup Playoffs, 1966
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Halsted St., Route 66, 1949
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 14 in W 11 in
Roma, An Italian Gentleman Enjoying a Beautiful Woman, Black & White Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin, Archival Pigment
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H 20 in W 16 in
Maxwell Street 5am, Chicago circa 1957, Black and White Photograph by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Welcome Democrats, 1968 Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Smoking Dog, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 13 in W 19 in D 0.5 in
Kid Boxing, 1952, Black and White Photograph by Art Shay, Signed and Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
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H 20 in W 16 in
Muddy Waters and His Wife, Geneva, 1951, Black and White Photography, Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 16 in W 20 in
Hula Hoop Craze, Group of Women in Suburban Chicago, Black and White Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 20 in W 16 in
Blues Great Howlin' Wolf, Chicago 1966, Framed Black and White Photo by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 16 in W 20 in
Old Town's Boss Coffee Shop, Chicago 1970, Color Photograph, Signed & Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
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H 20 in W 16 in
Smiling Ray Kroc, 1965, McDonald's First Franchise in Des Plaines, IL, Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Simone de Beauvior, Nude Photograph, 1950, Signed, Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 14 in W 11 in
Diana Ross & The Supremes, Supremely Tired, Detroit 1965, Black and White Photo
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 22 in W 17 in
Dolly Parton, 1976 - Portrait, Bright Red Dress & Guitar, Color Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
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H 11 in W 14 in
The Supremes at Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit, MI, 1965 - Framed, Signed Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 20 in W 16 in
Iceman - Children Gathered Around an Ice Cream Vendor circa 1949, Photo Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
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H 8 in W 10 in
The Supremes Dancing - Detroit, MI, 1965 - Framed, Signed Silver Gelatin Photo
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 16 in W 20 in D 1.25 in
The Supremes at Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit 1965, Framed, Signed Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 20 in W 16 in
Liz Taylor at the Pump Room, Chicago 1960 - Black and White Photograph, Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 17 in W 22 in D 1.25 in
Ron Santo, 1967 - Black and White Baseball Photograph by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
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H 20 in W 16 in D 1 in
Twins, Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, Illinois, for Ebony Magazine, 1952, Silver Gelatin
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 20 in W 16 in D 1.25 in
Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, Illinois, Rail Walker for Ebony Magazine 1952, by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 20 in W 16 in D 1.25 in
Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, Illinois, Boys PlayingBasketball for Ebony Magazine, 1952
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 13 in W 9 in
Dolly Immortalized, Vintage Black and White Photo, 1976, Signed and Framed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 19 in W 13 in
James Baldwin Standing, Deerfield, IL 1961, Deerfield Integration Rally
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
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H 16 in W 20 in D 1.25 in
Hugh Hefner in His Bedroom Office, Chicago 1961, Black and White Photography
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 16 in W 20 in
Deerfield Protestors, 1963, Activists at Rally at Dusk, Silver Gelatin Print
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Girls Girls Girls, State St. Strip Joint Near Death, Chicago, 1966
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
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H 12.5 in W 16.8 in
The Cherry Orchard Igor Kvasha, Marina Neyolova, Sergei Garmash Illustration Art
Located in Surfside, FL
It has influenced many other playwrights, including Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, David Mamet, and Arthur Miller.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Deerfield Protestors, 1963
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Find Waldo Nixon, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1969
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Marlon Brando Kissing Dog, Libertyville, IL 1950
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
James Baldwin, Deerfield, IL 1959
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
Keep on Truckin' R. Crumb, Chicago 1975
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Cassius Clay, Ali TKO Punch vs. Alex Miteff, Louisville 1961
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Vince Lombardi Huddle, 1966
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Fallen Starr, 1967
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
R. Crumb, 1975
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
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H 19 in W 13 in
James Baldwin Standing, Deerfield, IL 1959, Deerfield Integration Rally
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Archival Pigment
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H 16 in W 20 in
Cassius Clay - Ali in the Locker Room, 1961, Black and White Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet
Silver Gelatin
Art Shay is a great photographer. His work over the past 50 years has artfully captured the beauty, humor and pathos of America. Studs Terkel says, “Art Shay is one of the best photojournalists I know. I’ve been a fan of his work since the early 1950s - before the launch of Playboy magazine.” Hugh Hefner says, “Algren, Terkel, Royko, they gave us a voice. Art Shay gave us a face.” Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago artist says, “Art Shay is America’s Cartier-Bresson.” Tom Dyja, author of The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream says, “Art Shay in many ways is to American photography what Nelson Algren was to American writing: that rare and absolutely necessary citizen who’s blessed with a cold eye, a clear head and a warm heart. What is it about Chicago that keeps giving us men like this?” Russell Banks, novelist says, “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai and in America, the Chicago-based Art Shay, all world-class photographers.” Christophe Loviny, art editor, Paris says, “Art Shay is the best photo-journalist Chicago ever produced.” Arthur Siegel, photographer; IIT Institute of Design President says, “I have one of Art Shay’s pictures over my desk. It reminds me every morning of my Chicago roots. Arts photos, like me, have the Chicago accent, which may be to say he’s telling you the truth. I think it takes a realist to see the humor in things. I know it takes a realist to see the depths of tragedy. Shay’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm,” says David Mamet.
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later.
Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide.
What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?
Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.
Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.
Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.