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The Abyss - Original Oil Painting of Nude Figures Wandering Into a Body of Water
The Abyss - Original Oil Painting of Nude Figures Wandering Into a Body of Water

The Abyss - Original Oil Painting of Nude Figures Wandering Into a Body of Water

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

This beautiful grouping of nude figures wandering into the abyss are seen from behind in various states of undress. Master painter Bruno Surdo creates compelling and mysterious narratives in his classically inspired artworks. Bruno Surdo The Abyss oil on canvas 24h x 48w in 60.96h x 121.92w cm Bruno A. Surdo b. Chicago, 1963 EXHIBITIONS 2018 Liberation, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Blood Sport, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Art on Paper 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Pier 36, New York, NY SOFA Chicago 2018, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 2017 POP!ARAZZI, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL Coming Attractions, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL 2015 SOFA Chicago 2015, Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Allegories, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2014 Bruno Surdo: Respond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Modern Metaphors, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2013 Bruno Surdo: Revelations, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Vice + Virtue, Northern Illinois University Museum of Art 2012 Contemporary Realism Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 2011 Bruno Surdo, University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts, Fort Wayne, IN Uncensored, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Art Chicago 2010, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2009 Art Chicago 2009, Ann Nathan Gallery, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 2007 Bruno Surdo, Art Institute of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 2006 Context/Content: Making Meaning with the Figure, University of Arkansas, Conway, AR Creative Imaginings, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Bruno Surdo: Cycles, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Art Chicago 2005, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2004, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA Armory Show, New York Armory, New York, NY 2003 Paintings & Drawings, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL The Art Show, New York, NY Bruno Surdo: New Work, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2003, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-10 International Show of Contemporary Artists, Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL 2002 Bruno Surdo: Perception of Appearance, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Richard M. Daley Center, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Transcendence, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Art Chicago 2002, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL Tragedy, Memory, & Honor, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR 1998 Evanston and Vicinity Artists, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 1996 Bruno Surdo: A Personal View, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 1995 Bruno Surdo: Recent Works, College of Lake County, IL AIDS in Our Society, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Bruno Surdo: Life, Struggle, and Hope, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bruno Surdo: Dualities of Life, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Group Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Spiritual Inquiries, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1994 Recent Works, The 14th Annual Juried Exhibition for Lake County Artists, Grayslake, IL Go Figure, Figurative Works on Paper, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Re-Birth of Venus, Temporary Loan, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR College of Lake County, Greyslake, IL Flashpoint Academy, Chicago IL John Robert Wiltgen Design Shoemaker Ruud Collection Julie & Thomas Danilek Michael Vozzella and Mike Silver Benjamin Fernandez Tom Braake Betsy Colburn Michael Diemand & Lor LaRose Michael Staab & Kathy Brock Bruce Leep Frank Tzurect Mary Foley Rosalyn Carlson Mimmy Turney Janet Long Halstead Billy Hunt Carol Galli Myles Kerrigan Honorable & Mrs. Edwin Berman Theodore Gage Northrop Art Museum Past Present & Future Company Dr. James & Peggy Kemmler Salvatore Monastero Nix & Virginia Lauridsen Joel Miller David & Marlene Zerkel Ann & Andy Abel Claudia Rush Marc Miller Leonard Goldberg Lawrence Pucci Howard Tullman Collection Susan & Manny Kramer James Rinnert Richar Interiors Michael & Nancy Colt Khalid Altijir Dr. Joe Grodman Beryl & Jack Gore Larry Wolf & Eric Naegle Chuck Wolandi Jack Schwab & David Sandelin Thomas Kaczmarek Marti Dinerstein Craig & Michael Golden Mike & Jill Rose SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Bruno Surdo: The Method Artist Responds, by Lucia Mauro, June 26, 2014, anitathemovie blog An Exhibition of Exhibitionism: Bruno Surdo’s ‘Respond’, by Carrie McGath, July 1, 2014, The Chicagoist Website, Arts and Entertainment “Inspired Environs: A renowned designer decks out his Loop abode in art and texture” Modern Luxury, Men’s Book, Spring 2014 “Master Class” What’z Up Magazine, Fort Wayne, 2011 ”9/11 Painting will be on Display” Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 2011 “Illuminated Images” Fort Wayne Reader, 2011 “Two Faces of Beauty” American Art Collector Magazine, Issue #3 and #59, 2006/2010 “Art and Calamity” Art Papers, 2009 “Versions of the Present, Techniques of the Past” American Artist Magazine, 2004 “Living Artists” Crow Book Publishing, Chicago, IL 2004 “The New Master” by Craig Keller, Chicago Social Magazine, 2004. “Tragedy, Memory, and Honor,” by William Hageman, Chicago Tribune, March 28, 2002 “Mural Depicts Tragedy of 9/11” Art Section...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Picturesque 1945 Landscape Watercolor of Calais, Vermont, The Artist's Studio
A Picturesque 1945 Landscape Watercolor of Calais, Vermont, The Artist's Studio

A Picturesque 1945 Landscape Watercolor of Calais, Vermont, The Artist's Studio

By Harold Haydon

Located in Chicago, IL

A Charming, Picturesque 1945 Landscape Watercolor of Calais, Vermont, The Artist's Studio, by noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). For many years, Haydon and his wif...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

A 1940s Modern Surrealist Abstract Drawing, "Flash Watch" by Hananiah Harari
A 1940s Modern Surrealist Abstract Drawing, "Flash Watch" by Hananiah Harari

A 1940s Modern Surrealist Abstract Drawing, "Flash Watch" by Hananiah Harari

By Hananiah Harari

Located in Chicago, IL

A Striking, 1940s Modern Surrealist Abstract Drawing, "Flash Watch" by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Graphite on green toned paper, dating fr...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Young Girl in Green

Young Girl in Green

By Béla Czóbel

Located in Chicago, IL

In a letter written to Czóbel after he had become quite ill in 1975, famous Portuguese painter Vieira da Silva writes: “My very dear Czóbel, We em...

Category

1970s Expressionist Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Union of Different Skies: Contemporary Oil Painting, 60x48 in
The Union of Different Skies: Contemporary Oil Painting, 60x48 in

The Union of Different Skies: Contemporary Oil Painting, 60x48 in

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

In The Union of Different Skies, Bruno Surdo transforms an ordinary urban crowd into a contemporary history painting. The compressed space, layered figures, and heightened atmosphere...

Category

2010s Old Masters Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Approaching Storm: Horsemen on Normandy Beach

Approaching Storm: Horsemen on Normandy Beach

By Albert Zavaro

Located in Chicago, IL

Oil on canvas 60.3 x 73 cm.; 23 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches Signed lower right

Category

20th Century Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Dessert - Still Life Table Setting with Fruit, Wine and Flowers, Oil on Panel
Dessert - Still Life Table Setting with Fruit, Wine and Flowers, Oil on Panel

Dessert - Still Life Table Setting with Fruit, Wine and Flowers, Oil on Panel

By John Hrehov

Located in Chicago, IL

The artist is a master at storytelling. He sets the stage for the viewer to bring the events to a particular scene. Here, the artist has set two wine glasses, napkins and a small plate of desserts on a geometrically patterned table cloth, draping so it almost appears to be falling over the frame. The viewer is required to ask the questions about the scene but the answers may only lie in their own imagination. The painting, which is painted on canvas then mounted to a panel, is framed in a simple wooden frame measuring 21 x 30 inches. John Hrehov Dessert, 2022 oil on canvas on panel 20h x 29w in 50.80h x 73.66w cm JHR008 John Hrehov Education 1985 MFA-Painting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1981 BFA-Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Solo Exhibitions 2017 John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Tom Thomas Gallery, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN. 2012 Shades from White to Black, New Drawings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2011 John Hrehov: Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. 2009 John Hrehov: A Survey 1999-2009 Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Paintings and Drawings. Seerveld Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 2004 John Hrehov: Drawings and Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2002 Paintings. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 2001 Charcoal. Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. John Hrehov, Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2000 The Picture Proper. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. Fearful Symmetry. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. Allegories in Contemporary Life. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1999 Paintings and Working Drawings. Adams Hall Gallery, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. 1998 John Hrehov. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. John Hrehov: Paintings and Drawings. Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1997 Object Lesson, Paintings, and Drawings by John Hrehov. Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY. 1995 John Hrehov. Trinity Art Gallery, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL. 1993 John Hrehov: Selected Works 1980-1992 Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. Group Exhibitions 2019 2019 Alumni Exhibition. Reinberger Gallery at The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH. Out Of The Closet. Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY. 1026 West Berry Street: The Fort Wayne Art School. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 2018 Artlink Regional Exhibition. Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN. 2017 Sola Grace-Faith-Scripture: An Exhibition of Sacred Visual Art. Good Shepherd Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN. Norman Bradley...

Category

2010s Surrealist Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

"Charybdis II" Ink & Paint on Canvas
"Charybdis II" Ink & Paint on Canvas

"Charybdis II" Ink & Paint on Canvas

By Issy Wilson

Located in Chicago, IL

Awash with swirling colors and abstract forms, the mixed-media paintings of emerging artist Issy Wilson reflect the interconnectedness of the natural world. A collaboration between t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Ink, Pigment

A Cheerful 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin
A Cheerful 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin

A Cheerful 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

A Cheerful, 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman with Blonde Hair by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, oil on Masonite (...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera
1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera

1920s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera

By Tina Modotti

Located in Chicago, IL

An original 1920s silver gelatin print by famed photographer Tina Modotti, showing a mural fresco by Diego Rivera in the Agricultural School-Chapingo, Mexico. Photo is stamped “Photographs-Tina Modotti Mexico, D.F.” on reverse. Photograph size: 6 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 20 inches. Tina Modotti was born in Udine, Italy in 1896 and by the age of 14 she was supporting her entire family by working in a local silk factory. Modotti’s father emigrated to San Francisco, sending for his family in 1913. Modotti was hired in the sewing room at the I. Magnin department store, but her great beauty attracted the attention of her superiors who then employed her to model the store’s fashions. In 1915, Modotti attended San Francisco’s Pan-Pacific Exposition, where she got her first look at Modern art and photography. She also met her first husband at the Exposition, painter and poet Roubaix de l’Abrie Richey. At this time Modotti began acting in local Italian theatre and was discovered by a talent scout for the new silent film industry in Hollywood. She arrived in Los Angeles in 1918 and was cast in “The Tiger’s Coat” and “I Can Explain”. Through her Hollywood connections, Modotti met the married photographer Edward Weston, with whom she began an affair. Modotti was a favorite subject of Weston’s photographs, but moreover he taught her the art of photography. She actually ran Weston’s studio in exchange for photography lessons. Due to the on-going affair between Modotti and Weston, Modotti’s husband moved to Mexico where he died of smallpox. This tragedy and the death of her father made Modotti dissatisfied with Hollywood. Modotti and Weston arrived in Mexico in 1923 at a time when the country was in the midst of a social, political and cultural revolution. She photographed the Mexican...

Category

1920s Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Paper

A Charming, Modern 1930s Portrait Study of a Young Male Bather
A Charming, Modern 1930s Portrait Study of a Young Male Bather

A Charming, Modern 1930s Portrait Study of a Young Male Bather

By Harold Haydon

Located in Chicago, IL

A Charming, 1930s Modernist Portrait Study of a Seated Young Male Bather by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Most likely completed at a summer lake house in Al...

Category

1930s American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

The Wise Ones - Three Rabbits Amongst a Broken Strand of Pearls, Original Oil
The Wise Ones - Three Rabbits Amongst a Broken Strand of Pearls, Original Oil

The Wise Ones - Three Rabbits Amongst a Broken Strand of Pearls, Original Oil

By Rose Freymuth-Frazier

Located in Chicago, IL

Rose Freymuth-Frazier Wise Ones oil on linen 32h x 50w in 81.28h x 127w cm RFF059 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary explorati...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Colorful 1950s Standing Male Bather in South of France by Andre Delfau
Colorful 1950s Standing Male Bather in South of France by Andre Delfau

Colorful 1950s Standing Male Bather in South of France by Andre Delfau

By Andre Delfau

Located in Chicago, IL

A vibrant 1950s Modern watercolor of a standing male bather in red & orange tones by notable French artist Andre Delfau. Painted in the south of France along the Cote d' azure (...

Category

1950s American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser - 15/15
Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser - 15/15

Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser - 15/15

By Julian Wasser

Located in Chicago, IL

Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchas...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Angel with Nails III - Oil Painting Inspired by Bernini's Angels in Rome
Angel with Nails III - Oil Painting Inspired by Bernini's Angels in Rome

Angel with Nails III - Oil Painting Inspired by Bernini's Angels in Rome

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Ivan Markovic transports viewers into a world of full of technicolor with this collection of works inspired by Bernini's bridge of angels. Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk...

Category

2010s Abstract Chicago - Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Let Her Go - Thickly Painted Impasto Surface Oil Painting with Dream-Like Scene
Let Her Go - Thickly Painted Impasto Surface Oil Painting with Dream-Like Scene

Let Her Go - Thickly Painted Impasto Surface Oil Painting with Dream-Like Scene

By Victor Wang

Located in Chicago, IL

Victor Wang's highly textured paintings involve thick layers of paint over collaged images from the Tang Dynasty. In "Let Her Go", the foreground shows a modern female figure sitting upon the side of a boat which gives the impression she is wearing wings and about to take flight. Upon closer look, there are various scenes taking place around her in the water - warriors with knives drawn, a jeep in pursuit of some unseen enemy, a cauldron boiling over. Influence by the Renaissance Masters, Titian and Rembrandt for their glazing and layering techniques respectively, the artist builds the surface using heavy paint, swirling and mixing the color on the canvas. The end result is a poetic and emotionally powerful representation of the human form. Victor Wang Let Her Go oil on canvas 48h x 60w in 121.92h x 152.40w cm VWG011 My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring. I use the human face as a vehicle to paint human experiences - worry and wonder, sadness and pleasure - which reflect the emotional stage directly tied to my immigration experiences. I grew up amongst the sunflower fields in northern China. In my childhood years, I played under the bright, yellow sunflowers with my brothers everyday. China’s Cultural Revolution played an important part in my life. During that time, sunflowers were used as political allegories to depict how citizens of China should follow Mao who represented the sun, since sunflowers follow the sun’s movements. People eventually inferred the deception that this symbol masked. After graduating from high school, I was sent to a labor camp in the country for ‘reeducation’ during China’s Cultural Revolution. There, I was subject to grueling farm work. Often, I worked in corn and sunflower fields from sunrise to sunset. Thus, for me, sunflowers evoke both personal joy and sadness. Therefore, to deliver my complex feelings, I use sunflowers as a metaphor to connote my background and emotional stage. My incorporation of collages of figures from China’s Tang Dynasty represents my Chinese heritage and is a constant reminder of where I came from. The texture and earthiness on the canvas’s surface are inspired by the texture of the soil on the farm where I worked in China. Although I often gain great pleasure from the process of painting, it is most important to unfold expressively those feelings within myself. Wang belongs to a generation of immigrant painters from China, whose artistic background was defined by socialist realism but took advantage of their skills and broke away from that tradition to create new subjects in the U.S. “When I was a student during Cultural Revolution, Soviet realism art was among the dominant source of influence and it grabbed us like lightening...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Forest Stream - Painting of Creek Running Through Forest

Forest Stream - Painting of Creek Running Through Forest

By Jeff Aeling

Located in Chicago, IL

Aeling has long been drawn to the liminal spaces where forest interiors give way to open meadows. Painted with his characteristic balance of observation and restraint, this woodland ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

18th Century New England Cartographer's Office - Kupjack Studios Miniature Room
18th Century New England Cartographer's Office - Kupjack Studios Miniature Room

18th Century New England Cartographer's Office - Kupjack Studios Miniature Room

By Henry "Hank" Kupjack

Located in Chicago, IL

Cartography, the study and practice of making and using maps, was at the cutting edge in the 18th-century, helping to shape and define a world rapidly coming into focus. Over the course of the century, exploration and colonization expanded the scope of the known world, especially in the Pacific and the Americas. Advances in geography enabled cartographers to map these new discoveries with increasing accuracy. The days of conjecture and myth in cartography were fast coming to an end. Here, the Kupjack Studios has captured this discipline with exacting details. From the smallest of tools, to the rolls of maps and maps in progress displayed on the desk, the world of miniatures comes to life and brings us into a bygone era. Kupjack Miniatures 18th Century New England Cartographer, circa. 2008 mixed media 14h x 26.25w x 14.75d in 35.56h x 66.67w x 37.47d cm KJK001 Eugene Kupjack and his sons Hank and Jay created museum quality miniature rooms in their studio outside of Chicago for many years. Hank and Jay learned the at their father’s side as he assisted Mrs. Narcissa Niblack Thorne with the creation her many miniature rooms now housed at The Art Institute of Chicago. Almost every piece of molding, furniture, rugs, and accessory items that are contained in their rooms are designed and created by hand. In addition to designing and building rooms they would sometimes work to restore the rooms built many years ago by their father and Mrs. Thorne. Their work can be seen in various museums as far away as Turkey where they were exhibited in 2009. In the United States their work can be seen in the permanent collections of The Kentucky Museum Center, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Philadelphia Art Museum...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

A Striking, Dramatic Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Portrait of a Woman
A Striking, Dramatic Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Portrait of a Woman

A Striking, Dramatic Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Portrait of a Woman

By Harold Haydon

Located in Chicago, IL

A Striking, Dramatic 1950s Mid-Century Modern Figure Study Portrait of Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, studio drawing in charcoal of...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Portrait of a Young Woman
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Portrait of a Young Woman

A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study, Portrait of a Young Woman

By Harold Haydon

Located in Chicago, IL

A Fine, Mid-Century Modern 1950s Figure Study Portrait of Young Woman in Profile by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, studio drawing in charcoa...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Let Go 2 - Shirtless Male with Warm Orange Backdrop, Original oil painting
Let Go 2 - Shirtless Male with Warm Orange Backdrop, Original oil painting

Let Go 2 - Shirtless Male with Warm Orange Backdrop, Original oil painting

Located in Chicago, IL

Let Go 1, 2, 3 (Series) In these paintings, Zdrale depicts multiple figures—often iterations of the same man—locked in a cycle of struggle. The ropes that coil around or extend from ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Chicago - Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

Against Dryness by Osama Esber - Contemporary Photography

Against Dryness by Osama Esber - Contemporary Photography

Located in Chicago, IL

Available Sizes: 16” x 20” Edition of 25 with 3 Artist Proofs 20” x 24” Edition of 10 with 3 Artist Proofs 30” x 40” Edition of 7 with 3 Artist Proofs Artist Poem on "Against Dryne...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

An Elegant 1940s Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman in Red Dress
An Elegant 1940s Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman in Red Dress

An Elegant 1940s Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman in Red Dress

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

An Elegant 1940s Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman a Red Dress by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A beautifully executed studio portrait, the painting is oil...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Ariel - After Bernini, Contemporary Paper Sculpture of Angel, 21st Century

Ariel - After Bernini, Contemporary Paper Sculpture of Angel, 21st Century

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Ivan Markovic transports viewers into a world of technicolor with this collection of works inspired by Bernini's angels. Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Wire

A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude

A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude

By Harold Haydon

Located in Chicago, IL

A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Exhibiting a spare and exceptional use of brushwork...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Ink, Paper

Sunset Aliomanu Bay, Kauai - Water and Sky Meet with Sun Kissed Clouds

Sunset Aliomanu Bay, Kauai - Water and Sky Meet with Sun Kissed Clouds

By Jeff Aeling

Located in Chicago, IL

Aeling’s fascination with atmospheric drama—rooted in his childhood in the American West, where weather dominates the horizon—finds powerful expression in this seascape. The low line of the ocean reinforces the artist’s signature device: vast, open skies that dwarf the land below. Yet the work also reflects a more personal history: Aeling’s enduring love of Hawaii, where he spent many winters surfing and studying the Pacific’s shifting moods. Those days on the water deepened his awareness of how ocean and sky interact, how storms gather, dissolve, and re-form with astonishing rapidity. The painting captures that moment when light changes direction and the boundary between calm and impending weather becomes charged with meaning. His precise modulation of color and temperature recalls his study of 19th-century luminists, yet the lived experience of Hawaiian surf breaks gives the scene an immediacy and authenticity that is distinctly his own. Jeff Aeling Sunset Aliomanu Bay, Kauai oil on panel 28h x 48w in 71.12h x 121.92w cm JAE040 Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character. Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

An 1950's Modernist Watercolor of Amsterdam by Francis Chapin
An 1950's Modernist Watercolor of Amsterdam by Francis Chapin

An 1950's Modernist Watercolor of Amsterdam by Francis Chapin

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

A colorful, charming 1950s Mid-Century, architectural cityscape of Amsterdam by notable Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches. Archivally matte...

Category

1950s Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper, Ink

The Singers

The Singers

By Adriaen van Ostade

Located in Chicago, IL

The Singers (4th State), 1667 Etching printed with tone 240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches Provenance: W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592) Karl Herweg (not in Lugt) References: Godefroy 19 IV/VII Hollstein 19 IV/VII Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47 Notes: A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade. Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state. Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland. Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...

Category

17th Century Old Masters Chicago - Art

Materials

Etching

A Sensitive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Harold Haydon
A Sensitive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Harold Haydon

A Sensitive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Harold Haydon

By Harold Haydon

Located in Chicago, IL

A Sensitive, Finely Rendered 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork is un...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Please, Not Now! Brigitte Bardot drive-in film poster, 1961

Please, Not Now! Brigitte Bardot drive-in film poster, 1961

Located in Chicago, IL

Original 1961 poster for Roger Vadim's Please, Not Now! starring Brigitte Bardot. A masterful statement of modernist film poster design, this oversized drive-in poster was acquired d...

Category

1960s Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Offset, Lithograph

A 1940s Painting of a Seated Female Nude in Summer Landscape, Ox-Bow School
A 1940s Painting of a Seated Female Nude in Summer Landscape, Ox-Bow School

A 1940s Painting of a Seated Female Nude in Summer Landscape, Ox-Bow School

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

A beautiful 1940s painting of a seated female nude in a summer landscape by renowned Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted at the Oxbow School in Saugatuck, Michig...

Category

1940s American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

A Charming 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin
A Charming 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin

A Charming 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

A Charming, 1950s Modern Portrait of a Young Woman in a Red Sweater by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 8 x 6 inches, oil on Masonite (Framed siz...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Los Niños (Don't Forget the Children)

Los Niños (Don't Forget the Children)

Located in Chicago, IL

"Talavera Series #1" New Mexico - June 24, 2022 Original Work Image Size: 17" x 14" in Framed Size: 25.75” x 28.75 x .5” in Signed on the bottom right hand corner by the artist. ...

Category

2010s Folk Art Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Permanent Marker, Pencil, Ballpoint Pen

Orange Crush - Gyotaku Style Japanese Sumi Ink Painting, Large Orange Octopus
Orange Crush - Gyotaku Style Japanese Sumi Ink Painting, Large Orange Octopus

Orange Crush - Gyotaku Style Japanese Sumi Ink Painting, Large Orange Octopus

By Jeff Conroy

Located in Chicago, IL

A Gyo-Tako print of large octopus is seen here in Jeff Conroy's work entitled "Orange Crush". To achieve this remarkable painting, the artist inks the octopus using traditional sum...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper

Reclining nude, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch) collotype lithograph, 1922
Reclining nude, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch) collotype lithograph, 1922

Reclining nude, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch) collotype lithograph, 1922

By (after) Gustav Klimt

Located in Chicago, IL

Original 1922 collotype lithograph of a reclining nude figure, created from Gustav Kilmt’s handzeichnungen (sketch). Published by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. Klimt’s mastery of depth is most evident in the gentleness of his linework. Without the aid of shadow or the subtlety of values, the gestures of line allow the viewer a sense of a three-dimensional person or object. The meticulous lithographic process used to create Klimt’s Handzeichnungen portfolio ensures exceptionally crisp markings bearing a strong resemblance to the original sketches. This series showcases the quintessence behind Klimt’s signature visual style. This artwork arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Century Guild has curated collections of Gustav Klimt’s printed...

Category

1920s Vienna Secession Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Untitled - Highly Detailed Paper Sculpture of Angel

Untitled - Highly Detailed Paper Sculpture of Angel

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Ivan Markovic transports viewers into a world of technicolor with this collection of works inspired by Bernini's angels. Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Wire