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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

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

"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

The Body is a History - Muscular Male Nude, Graphite Drawing on Paper
The Body is a History - Muscular Male Nude, Graphite Drawing on Paper

The Body is a History - Muscular Male Nude, Graphite Drawing on Paper

By Rick Sindt

Located in Chicago, IL

Rick Sindt's knowledge of the male physique is evident in this exquisite drawing of a nude male. The subject sits on the ground with his body twisted away from the viewer. We see the defined musculature of his posterior. The artwork is framed in white wood with a black mat. Rick Sindt The Body is a History graphite on archival paper 12h x 9w in 30.48h x 22.86w cm RIS026 Shifting the historic male gaze into a male-on-male gaze, this body of work anchors its exploration of queer culture in relationships and introspection. Beginning with a survey of several photo archives, I overwhelmingly encountered pictures that fit into two distinct categories: spectacular demonstrations or public displays of sexuality. All of these images were overtly political. Then, I began to find a subset of more intimate images. Typically, these were images submitted by loved ones or donated to foundations after someone’s death. These images depicted common, tender scenes. Working my way through these images, I reflected on D. A. Miller’s assertion that gay identity, to which we have entrusted our politics and ethics, stands in an essentially reductive relation to the queer desires on which it is based. And David Halperin’s argument that, “identity has become the preferred category for thinking about homosexuality. Moreover, it has been promoted at the direct expense of pleasure or feelings or subjectivity.” This left me asking the questions: how is queer culture transmitted if not genealogically? Is there a universal queer experience? What is queer sensibility and subjectivity and can it be visually represented? Rick Sindt b. 1990, Hastings, MN, EDUCATION 2013 North Park University, Chicago, IL - BFA Magna Cum Laude SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 Two Countries, Rogue Philanthropy, Chicago, IL 2013 Tides, Erosion or Catch, Pull, Recover; The-One-Right-Now, North Park University; Chicago, IL GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Are We Not of Interest to Each Other, Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL Reinventing Ourselves From Another Point-of-View, Contemporary Gallery at Zhou B. Arts Center, Chicago, IL Collective: Process, Beans and Bagels, Chicago, IL 2015 Collective: for(a)ging, Hammond Art Center; Hammond, IN How We Make It, The Arts of Life, Chicago, IL Collective: One, Albany Park...

Category

2010s Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Graphite

A Tiny Painting of the Racine, WI Ravine, by Artist Harold Haydon
A Tiny Painting of the Racine, WI Ravine, by Artist Harold Haydon

A Tiny Painting of the Racine, WI Ravine, by Artist Harold Haydon

By Harold Haydon

Located in Chicago, IL

Artist Harold Haydon called his tiny paintings "Thumb Box" paintings. This 1943 oil on paper painting depicts the Racine Ravine (Wisconsin Lakefront Beach). This is the perfect ser...

Category

1940s American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Oil

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

"Patterned Soul, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
"Patterned Soul, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2022

"Patterned Soul, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2022

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Chicago - Art

Materials

Acrylic

One Such Morning  - Complex Interior Scene with Still Life and Multiple Figures

One Such Morning - Complex Interior Scene with Still Life and Multiple Figures

By Benjamin Duke

Located in Chicago, IL

Ben Duke One Such Morning oil on canvas 40h x 48w in 101.60h x 121.92w cm BSD034 Ben Duke b. 1977 Louisville, KY Education 2006 M.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 2002 B.F.A., University of Utah, Salt Lake City...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brooklyn, Illinois, Twins, 1952 - For Ebony Magazine in Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, IL
Brooklyn, Illinois, Twins, 1952 - For Ebony Magazine in Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, IL

Brooklyn, Illinois, Twins, 1952 - For Ebony Magazine in Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, IL

By Art Shay

Located in Chicago, IL

Art Shay photographed the community of Brooklyn, IL for Ebony Magazine, 1952. These photographs are the result of that experience. Brooklyn (popularly known as Lovejoy), is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Located two miles north of East St. Louis, Illinois and three miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, Missouri, it is the oldest town incorporated by African Americans in the United States. It was founded by freed and fugitive slaves from St. Louis, led by "Mother" Priscilla Baltimore in the period of 1829 to 1839. Its motto is "Founded by Chance, Sustained by Courage". This photograph is framed. Art Shay Brooklyn Twins, 1952 silver gelatin print 14h x 11w in 19.25h x 16.5w in framed ASY15054 “Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.” Roger Ebert “[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20th century.” Ellen & Richard Sandor, Renowned photo collectors “I’ve admired Art Shay’s work for almost forty years, and he keeps getting better. He can do anything with a camera, but what he mostly does is capture real moments and transform them into visual poetry. His work continues to be an inspiration to me.” William Friedkin, Director of French Connection “Art Shay is one of our finest photographers. His work over the past fifty years has artfully captured the beauty, humor, and pathos of America.” Studs Terkel “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 “Algren, Terkel, Royko, they gave us a voice. Art Shay gave us a face.” Tony Fitzpatrick, Chicago Artist “Art Shay is America’s Cartier-Bresson.” Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast “Chicago’s 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 “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 “Art Shay is the best photo-journalist Chicago ever produced.” Arthur Siegel, photographer; IIT Institute of Design President “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. Art’s work is so real it feels like a Madison Street guy tapping me on the forearm.” David Mamet

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

October Field, South of Peoria - Cloudy Skies, Original oil painting
October Field, South of Peoria - Cloudy Skies, Original oil painting

October Field, South of Peoria - Cloudy Skies, Original oil painting

By Ahzad Bogosian

Located in Chicago, IL

Ahzad Bogosian October Field, South of Peoria, 2021 oil and acrylic on canvas 20h x 16w in 50.80h x 40.64w cm AZB128 Ahzad Bogosian SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2025 Ahzad Bogosian, Gallery V...

Category

2010s Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

"Moon Spirit Dancer, " Oil on Canvas
"Moon Spirit Dancer, " Oil on Canvas

"Moon Spirit Dancer, " Oil on Canvas

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo creates dynamic compositions of people and places that communicate a rich commentary on the world around him. Depicting trees from personal encounters, Surdo’s latest body of work entitled “Tree Spirits” takes us on a foray into the forest, where leaves, branches and burls express something deeply personal. Applying his mastery of figurative realism to the natural world, he experiments with form and texture to uncover the intangible spirits of trees. This large-scale painting entitled “Moon Spirit Dancer...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil

The Sound of the Changing Season - Surreal Rural Scene, Hyper-realistic
The Sound of the Changing Season - Surreal Rural Scene, Hyper-realistic

The Sound of the Changing Season - Surreal Rural Scene, Hyper-realistic

By Christopher Klein

Located in Chicago, IL

A violinist, playing a melancholy tune, helps conjure up the change of season from fall to winter on Halloween, as represented by the black cat. The cat is holding the Tempest in the Teapot kettle. The raven, who is bursting forth from the steam of this tempest, represents the cold, dark and harsh winter to come. Juxtaposing and altering unrelated natural objects with the machinations of man to create a scene of an impossible surreal world, the viewer enters the mind of artist Christopher Klein...

Category

2010s Surrealist Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

St. Theresa #1 - Antique Painted Photograph in Frame

St. Theresa #1 - Antique Painted Photograph in Frame

By Marcos Raya

Located in Chicago, IL

***This artwork is currently on exhibit at the Instituto Cervantes, Chicago until September 2025. If purchased this artwork will be available to ship a...

Category

2010s Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Pine Trunks and Mineral Springs, Yellowstone - Encaustic Snowscape Painting

Pine Trunks and Mineral Springs, Yellowstone - Encaustic Snowscape Painting

By Jeff Aeling

Located in Chicago, IL

This scene echoes Aeling’s earlier years exploring Yellowstone and the northern Rockies, where geothermal landscapes and severe winters formed a visual laboratory for him. The stark verticals of dead trees rising through steam and snow evoke the quiet violence of natural forces—eruption, freeze, regrowth. Aeling often spoke of landscapes as records of time, and this painting exemplifies that belief: it is both serene and charged with memory, documenting a terrain shaped by fire, water, and cold. That sense of elemental transformation is deepened by the medium itself. This is the only encaustic painting found in his studio following his death—a rare departure from his familiar oil technique. The wax-based process, involving heat, layering, and an almost geological buildup of surface, mirrors the very forces depicted in the scene. It stands as a singular artifact in his oeuvre, a final and poignant testament to his fascination with how material, time, and natural forces converge. Jeff Aeling Pine Trunks and Mineral Springs, Yellowstone encaustic on panel 48h x 34w in 121.92h x 86.36w cm JAE041 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

Panel, Encaustic

An Introspective, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Pastel Drawing of a Young Boy
An Introspective, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Pastel Drawing of a Young Boy

An Introspective, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Pastel Drawing of a Young Boy

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

An introspective, 1950s Mid-Century Modern pastel drawing of a young boy by notable Chicago artist Francis Chapin. Pastel on artist board. Image size: 16 x 15 inches. (Artwork is...

Category

1950s American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Pastel, Board

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

A Stylish 1950s Mid-Century Modern Abstract Pink and Yellow Textile Design
A Stylish 1950s Mid-Century Modern Abstract Pink and Yellow Textile Design

A Stylish 1950s Mid-Century Modern Abstract Pink and Yellow Textile Design

By Andre Delfau

Located in Chicago, IL

A stylish 1950s Mid-Century Modern abstract geometric textile design in brown, yellow and pale pink tones by famed French costume, set and fashion designer Andre Delfau (1914-2000). Artwork size: 19 x 14 1/2 inches; Unframed. Presented in an archival mat measuring 26 x 20 inches (ready to frame). Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the artist. One from a series of related Modern textile designs by Andre Delfau. Please see our other 1stDibs gallery listings. Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, set and costume designer who worked world-wide from the 1930s to the 1980s. Delfau was a life long artist and painted independently of his noted design career. His artwork is recognized for it’s vibrant color and form, and a particularly keen use of line. He was highly influenced by the French Modern trends of Cubism and Surrealism, and his artwork is often infused with a dramatic sense of architecture and perspective. Delfau created fashion designs for such major Paris couture houses as Balmain, Jean Patou and Balenciaga. He completed noteworthy set designs and costumes for numerous international operatic and ballet productions, including those at the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain, the Paris Opera, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Ruth Page International Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. Most notably, Delfau designed the elaborate stage sets and costumes for the 1986 PBS television production of the Viennese operetta, "Die Fledermaus...

Category

1950s American Modern Chicago - Art

Materials

Gouache, Graphite, Paper

Rosbeg - Contemporary Watercolor Landscape of Coastal Ireland, Framed
Rosbeg - Contemporary Watercolor Landscape of Coastal Ireland, Framed

Rosbeg - Contemporary Watercolor Landscape of Coastal Ireland, Framed

By Carol Pylant

Located in Chicago, IL

Rosbeg by Carol Pylant evokes the quiet expanse of the Irish coast through soft, fluid washes and a muted, natural palette. Rolling green dunes and sandy inlets unfold gently toward ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

The Curse -  Female w/ Sunflowers, Ode to Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Lady Shalott"
The Curse -  Female w/ Sunflowers, Ode to Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Lady Shalott"

The Curse - Female w/ Sunflowers, Ode to Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Lady Shalott"

By Matthew Cook

Located in Chicago, IL

This is my take on the classic Pre-Raphaelite painting subject and poem “The Lady of Shalott,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is also inspired by the John Everett Millais painting, “The...

Category

2010s Old Masters Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

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

"Sawyer, " Mixed Media Kite
"Sawyer, " Mixed Media Kite

"Sawyer, " Mixed Media Kite

By Michael Thompson

Located in Chicago, IL

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art

Materials

Fabric, Silk, Wood

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

Penthouse Pets in the Temple of Isis, Caligula film set photograph

Penthouse Pets in the Temple of Isis, Caligula film set photograph

Located in Chicago, IL

Century Guild presents a selection of never-before-seen photographs taken on the set of Caligula in 1976 by legendary Italian still photographer Mario Tursi, best known for his work ...

Category

2010s Chicago - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Goldilocks, Pastel - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
Goldilocks, Pastel - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus

Goldilocks, Pastel - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus

By Jeff Conroy

Located in Chicago, IL

A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyotaku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pe...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

"New Morning, " Mixed Media Kite
"New Morning, " Mixed Media Kite

"New Morning, " Mixed Media Kite

By Michael Thompson

Located in Chicago, IL

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. His ongoing series of large-scale kites bridge the gap between flat art and sculpture, each crafted of split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage ephemera – including kimonos, obis, paintings, scrolls, drawings, metal leaf, bleeding paper, book pages, or anything with a story to tell. In “New Morning,” panels of teal and indigo leach across the expansive canvas with captivating irregularity. Contrasted by a neutral field of vintage block prints...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art

Materials

Fabric, Silk, Wood

"Lichen Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting
"Lichen Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting

"Lichen Garden 01" Mixed Media Painting

By Patrick Burns

Located in Chicago, IL

"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land into mixed-media paintings with rich texture and reverberating, monochrome color. Using pres...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art

Materials

Concrete

Comfort Zone, Crouching Nude Female Figure, Gazing Upward, Oil on Canvas
Comfort Zone, Crouching Nude Female Figure, Gazing Upward, Oil on Canvas

Comfort Zone, Crouching Nude Female Figure, Gazing Upward, Oil on Canvas

By Juan Barragán

Located in Chicago, IL

Getting out of one's comfort zone and ending the anxiety by rebuilding the lineal composition, the contrasts of color, textures and even the narrative. This happens just by throwing an impulsive stroke of red paint. While the figure is not in real danger, i.e. actually bleeding, but instead the red paint represents stepping out of one's comfort zone. It means to leave the status quo...

Category

2010s Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro

By Christopher Ganz

Located in Chicago, IL

-ARTIST STATEMENT- I depict my person in multiplicity with different selves representing dramatis personae. My likeness is both implicit and symbolic in the portrayal of my narrative; the drama involved in creating art and the artist’s role in society. I use realism to invite the viewer into mysterious inner worlds that are layered reflections of the outer. Dehumanizing environments are imbued with art historical references as a critique of power structures. The artist is an Everyman who is at odds with society and his self. Visually my work is a celebration of society’s dark undercurrents and its overlooked absurdities. I use charcoal and printmaking media as their tenebrous values add a fitting metaphor. The nuances of light and shadow seduce viewers into a world their better judgment would have them avoid. This provokes a sense of disquietude that causes viewers to assess our world through the austerity of a colorless, yet not humorless, light. -BIO- Christopher Ganz grew up in Northeast Ohio and from early on had a fertile imagination and an interest in art. Christopher's artistic education truly began at the University of Missouri, where his love of the human form led to many figure drawing classes and his exposure to the wonders of printmaking. Christopher's then went onto graduate school at Indiana University and a summer abroad program in Italy was a dream realized. Christopher then grasped charcoal with a renewed vigor and large, sfumato-laden drawings ensued. Christopher's artistic influences are many; from a seminal exposure to Dore's engravings of the Divine Comedy, to Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, and up to Lucian Freud, Mark Tansey...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Chalk, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Archival Paper

TRIBAL BIRD DRAWING ON JAR (INV# NP5076) by Magdalena and Michael Frimkess
TRIBAL BIRD DRAWING ON JAR (INV# NP5076) by Magdalena and Michael Frimkess

TRIBAL BIRD DRAWING ON JAR (INV# NP5076) by Magdalena and Michael Frimkess

By Magdalena and Michael Frimkess

Located in Morton Grove, IL

RARE TRIBAL BIRD DRAWING ON JAR (INV# NP5076) MAGDALENA SUAREZ FRIMKESS & MICHAEL FRIMKESS stoneware and glaze 5.75 x 8.5 x 8.5” 1997 signed by artist pro...

Category

1990s Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze, ABS

Vintage Deco Fashion Advertisement, Ink on Paper, 1920
Vintage Deco Fashion Advertisement, Ink on Paper, 1920

Vintage Deco Fashion Advertisement, Ink on Paper, 1920

Located in Chicago, IL

In tandem with a growing number of newspapers and periodicals, print advertising proliferated during China’s Republic Era. A bathing beauty is the star attraction of this print ad fr...

Category

1920s Art Deco Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Memory and Thunder

Memory and Thunder

By Cristina Mittermeier

Located in Chicago, IL

"Memory and Thunder" Kenya, 2025 Available sizes: 20 x 30 in / Edition of 6 - $4,500 32 x 48 in / Edition of 6 - $7,500 40 x 60 in / Edition of 6 - $10,500 50 x 75 in / Edition of 6...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser

Martin Luther King, Los Angeles, 1963 by Julian Wasser

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

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

Northern Lights, Canada by Cristina Mittermeier

Northern Lights, Canada by Cristina Mittermeier

By Cristina Mittermeier

Located in Chicago, IL

"Northern Lights" Yukon, Canada, 2012 20 x 30 in / Edition of 6 - $4,500 Also available: 32 x 48 in / Edition of 6 - $7,500 40 x 60 in / Edition of 6 - $10,500 50 x 75 in / Editi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mother and Daughter - Original Oil of a Daughter Standing Behind Mother, Framed
Mother and Daughter - Original Oil of a Daughter Standing Behind Mother, Framed

Mother and Daughter - Original Oil of a Daughter Standing Behind Mother, Framed

By Richard Gibbons

Located in Chicago, IL

Richard Gibbons Mother and Daughter, 2021 oil on canvas board 16h x 12w in 40.64h x 30.48w cm RAG090 Richard Gibbons b. 1950, Toledo, OH Richard Gibbons (born 1950, Toledo, Ohio) i...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Ultrablue Garden 05" Mixed Media Painting
"Ultrablue Garden 05" Mixed Media Painting

"Ultrablue Garden 05" Mixed Media Painting

By Patrick Burns

Located in Chicago, IL

"Concrete Gardens" is a body of work that translates Patrick Burns' deep love of the land and complicated past into richly textured, mixed-media paintings with reverberating, monochr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Chicago - Art

Materials

Concrete

Italian Garden Landscape, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
Italian Garden Landscape, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931

Italian Garden Landscape, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931

By (after) Gustav Klimt

Located in Chicago, IL

Original 1931 collotype created from Gustav Kilmt’s Italian Garden Landscape, oil on canvas, 1913. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office), Vienna, in an edition of 500. In 1931, Max Eisler published the most notable posthumous collection of Gustav Klimt works to date. Using a complex gravure process, Klimt’s original...

Category

1930s Vienna Secession Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper

Tangled Tree - Luminous Contemporary Oil Painting, 21st Century

Tangled Tree - Luminous Contemporary Oil Painting, 21st Century

By Jeff Aeling

Located in Chicago, IL

This intimate woodland scene connects to Aeling’s lifelong exploration of the hidden, overlooked spaces within larger landscapes. The twisting vines and dense verticals show his fascination with natural complexity, reminiscent of his early interest in organic forms and his deep study of drawing from life. The luminous clearing in the distance creates a path of visual escape—one of Aeling’s characteristic compositional strategies, reflecting his belief that landscapes should guide the viewer through space as a lived experience, not merely a view. Jeff Aeling Tangled Tree oil on panel 24h x 16w in 60.96h x 40.64w cm JAE056 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

Panel, Oil

For Now - Contemporary Mixed Media, Textural Blue Painting, 60x40 in, 2025
For Now - Contemporary Mixed Media, Textural Blue Painting, 60x40 in, 2025

For Now - Contemporary Mixed Media, Textural Blue Painting, 60x40 in, 2025

Located in Chicago, IL

Adrian Barquero For Now, 2025 Mixed media 60h x 40w in 152.40h x 101.60w cm ABQ018 Influenced by his Colombian heritage and background, Barquero uses his personal experience to exp...

Category

2010s Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Chalk, Acrylic, Screen

Portnoo - Framed Watercolor Landscape of Coastal Ireland, Contemporary
Portnoo - Framed Watercolor Landscape of Coastal Ireland, Contemporary

Portnoo - Framed Watercolor Landscape of Coastal Ireland, Contemporary

By Carol Pylant

Located in Chicago, IL

Portnoo by Carol Pylant is a quiet, atmospheric watercolor that captures the stillness of a coastal landscape through restrained color and gentle modulation. Soft washes of blue and ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin - Best of Friends
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin - Best of Friends

Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin - Best of Friends

By Allan Grant

Located in Chicago, IL

Frank and Dean recording. October, 1958. Sleep Warm album recorded by Dean Martin for Capitol Records in three sessions between October 13-15, 1958 with arrangements by Pete King and...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Hide and Seek #5 (Hunter), Original Mixed Media on Panel, Framed
Hide and Seek #5 (Hunter), Original Mixed Media on Panel, Framed

Hide and Seek #5 (Hunter), Original Mixed Media on Panel, Framed

Located in Chicago, IL

You look at my paintings, that's a slice of life you never saw before. Right now, and for a good number of years, I've been an urban painter. My life, my reality is Chicago. Bow n...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel

LaSalle Street - Cityscape of Chicago from the River- Albert Vidal
LaSalle Street - Cityscape of Chicago from the River- Albert Vidal

LaSalle Street - Cityscape of Chicago from the River- Albert Vidal

By Albert Vidal Moreno

Located in Chicago, IL

Albert Vidal paints a view of the Historical Landmark Reid Murdoch Building and world famous Marina Towers sitting at the edge of the Chicago River. Using vibrant colors and an abstr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Polar Wisdom - Norway by Paul Nicklen - Contemporary Wildlife Photography

Polar Wisdom - Norway by Paul Nicklen - Contemporary Wildlife Photography

By Paul Nicklen

Located in Chicago, IL

"Polar Wisdom" Svalbard, Norway - 2007 Archival Pigment Print Available Sizes: Edition of 20: 24” x 36” (61 x 91.4 cm) $3,500 Edition of 15: 31” x 46.5” (78.7 x 118.1 cm) $7,500 E...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chicago - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

High Desert Composition - 3-D Steel Wall Sculpture, Linear Geometric Form

High Desert Composition - 3-D Steel Wall Sculpture, Linear Geometric Form

By Chris Hill

Located in Chicago, IL

"High Desert Composition" is a welded steel wall sculpture where the lines between two- and three-dimensional art are blurred. The viewer has a variety of experiences from multiple vantage points where volumes and angles disconnect and reconnect as one moves around the piece. The hand welded steel is painted with acrylic paint in a kaleidoscope of color tones. Chris Hill High Desert Composition welded steel, acrylic paint 80h x 48w x 7d in 203.20h x 121.92w x 17.78d cm CHI024 Chris Hill is a Santa Fe based sculptor. Chris was born in Port Arthur, Texas but grew up in small town North Mississippi. He began welding at age 18 at the Tennessee Valley Authority...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Chicago - Art

Materials

Steel