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Item Ships From: Chicago
Yoruba Beaded Sash, c. 1950
Located in Chicago, IL
This intricately-constructed colorful train was painstakingly created by Yoruba artisans in Nigeria in the mid-20th century. Recent designs such as this were based upon sashes that s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerian Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Shell, Fabric, Beads
Three Framed Drawings by Paul Chidlaw
Located in Chicago, IL
A set of three framed gestural drawings by Paul Chidlaw (1900-1989) depicting flocks of birds rendered in black ink on paper.
Paul Chidlaw was an earl...
Category
20th Century American Modern Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 17
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 17
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Marcello Fantoni Wall Plaque
By Marcello Fantoni
Located in Chicago, IL
Marcello Fantoni rare studio wall plaque. Marked: Fantoni, Italy.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic
Robert Matheny Glitter Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Robert E. Matheny Glitter on canvass.
Early work 1969, original Lucite shadow box frame.
Visual artist starting in circa 1960, two years after graduating from Long Beach state College with an art education Masters Degree,
Contemporary of John Baldessari, San Diego Art...
Category
1960s American Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
"Sharing" Painting by Yoko Tanaka
By Yoko Tanaka
Located in Chicago, IL
Trained first as a photographer and then as an illustrator, Yoko Tanaka takes a look at life’s quieter moments in her paintings. She chooses a limited palette of soft, smoky tones th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
J.J. McVicker Painting "Hard Edge" Painting
By J.J. McVicker
Located in Chicago, IL
J.J. McVicker painting "Hard Edge" painting "Number 1", 1980.
Jesse Jay McVicker (b.1911-d.2004) was an American painter, printmaker and sculptor...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Chinese Cigarette Advertisement Poster, c. 1930s
Located in Chicago, IL
This poster from the 1930s draws from a well known Chinese opera scene. It melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. These advertisements, influenced by the Art Deco movement in the west, recall the economic boom of early 20th century Shanghai, an international center of business and trade. Layered with imagery of traditional Chinese life, the poster is nonetheless an advertisement for the modern cigarette industry, with several brands displayed in the top left corner, including Lan Ting, Hong Chun, and Jade Rabbit...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Contemporary Minimal Sculptural Metal Black and Copper Corner Shelves
By Felicia Ferrone
Located in Chicago, IL
This contemporary sculptural set of four metal minimal corner shelves are perfect for any space be it a living room, office, or bathroom.
These Minimalist shelves, whether installed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Copper, Steel
Macrame
Located in Chicago, IL
Knitted wool wall-mounted tapestry. Item contains seven individual pieces. unsigned but numbered.
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
"Scholar's Treasures" Chinese Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A scroll and a small lantern depicted in this 19th century painting suggest the romantic notion of a Chinese scholar painting in the evening hours. Re...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Fabric
Ron Fritts Wall Sculpture
By Ron Fritts
Located in Chicago, IL
Ron Fritts (20th century) is a contemporary American artist, fashion designer, painter, and educator. Fritts studied Fine Art at the Carnegie Institute, theatre arts at Columbia, pai...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Foil
"Study for SWEEPS" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Inspired by images of deep space, computer compression algorithms, and early non-representational art, Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses the tangible qualities of pattern and color to interpret unimaginable sights.
Entitled "Study for SWEEPS," this work offers a representation of the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search, Hubble’s seven-day-long survey of 180,000 stars in order to detect extrasolar planets. Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Tony Rosenthal "Thunderclap" Wall Sculpture
By Tony Rosenthal
Located in Chicago, IL
Tony Rosenthal "Thunderclap" Wall Sculpture
Sculpture by Rosenthal, torch-cut and burnished aluminum. Etched signature lower right corner Rosenthal 61
And on back "THUNDERCLAP" 61
Ca...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Aluminum
"Study for Event Horizon" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Inspired by images of deep space, computer compression algorithms, and early non-representational art, Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses the tangible qualities of pattern ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Chinese Reverse Glass Portrait with Painted Fan, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
With exquisite detail and sparkling color, this portrait of a young woman is a remarkable example of reverse glass painting. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effe...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass
Photograph by Michel Deverne
By Michel Deverne
Located in Chicago, IL
Deverne (1927-2012) was visual artist most interested in abstract geometric forms and textures. He was not known for photography and accordingly this surviving image is quite rare. T...
Category
1970s French Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
6G Wall-Mounted Shelf in Waxed Aluminum Plate by Jonathan Nesci
By Jonathan Nesci
Located in Columbus, IN
The wall-mounted, Minimalist 6G Shelf is sculpted out of 1/4 inch thick, wax-polished aluminum. Each shelf has an inset welded U-channel that spans the length of the shelf and easily...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Aluminum
Set of Twenty Framed 19th Century French Portrait Etchings
Located in Chicago, IL
A fantastic set of twenty 19th century framed etchings of Roman and Greek emperors, statesmen, and philosophers including Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Cicero, Marcus Brutus...
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Chicago Wall-Mounted Shelf in Waxed Blackened Steel by Jonathan Nesci
By Jonathan Nesci
Located in Columbus, IN
Wall-mounted shelf in .125 thick blackened steel plate. This 5-bay shelf is made of laser-cut, bent and welded steel plate with a blackened finish. Recessed steel mounting brackets a...
Category
2010s American Minimalist Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Steel
"Literary Gathering" Chinese Scroll Painting, c. 1923
Located in Chicago, IL
Exquisitely painted with delicate line work and a subdued color palette, this Chinese scroll painting is an Late 20th-century reproduction of a...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Silk, Paper
"Boys Beneath Lotus" Chinese Folk Painted Panel, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This folk hand painted panel, laden with meaning, was originally an interior painted panel of a large storage cabinet. The panel is painted with a sc...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Elm
Landscape Oil Painting from Italy
Located in Chicago, IL
Sprawling green meadows, crystalline waters, and classical architecture define this set of sumptuous nineteenth-century oil paintings, hailing from Italy. Comparable in size and styl...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"Urbane Profile" Mixed-Media Tile by Pauline Hughes
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, integrating techniques of painting, collage, and printmaking into ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Ceramic, Paper
Chinese Sign of Honor, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Signs of honor were presented as a gesture of gratitude to individuals who had bettered their community or in acknowledge of a respected person’s birthday. The sign would have been h...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Elm
Framed Vintage Chinese East West Advertisement, circa 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Mixing Western and traditional pictorial styles, this vintage ad depicts a young family on a garden stroll. A cheongsam-clad woman nods to tradition in cont...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Mid-20th Century Italian Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
This beautiful painting is from Italy and made circa 1950s-1960s. Made from paint on canvas the painting features a gold wooden frame; artist unknown. Great piece to add color to you...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
"Devastated Land" Marble Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
A leader of the cross-cultural Craft resurgence, Japan-based artist Toyoharu Kii creates his intricate mosaics with handcut Italian marble and smalti, Venetian glass made by the same Italian family for over 400 years. Using traditional Italian techniques, Kii’s art is nonetheless modern. It is monochromatic, abstract, and highly textured and highlights the involved and technical art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Minimalist Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
Photograph by Michel Deverne
Located in Chicago, IL
Deverne (1927-2012) was a visual artist most interested in abstract geometric forms and textures. He was not known for photography and accordingly this surviving image is quite rare....
Category
1970s French Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paper
GT Atelier Custom TV Art Wall by The Golden Triangle, Chicago
Located in Chicago, IL
Introducing the "GT Custom TV Art Wall" by The Golden Triangle. This art installation presents a solution to a very modern design problem: “What do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
Chinese New Year Painting, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
In celebration of the lunar New Year festival, it was traditional all over China to hang special decorations. In a city called Wuqiang, local artists made lacquer scroll paintings laden with symbolism. This framed and finely rendered early 20th century folk painting from Wuqiang features an imperial court official and his family dressed in their best silks. The young boy is dressed in a wonderfully patterned yellow robe to offer Shou Xing...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Bidjogo Tribal Initiation Ox Mask, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
After oxen were introduced to Guinea Bissau by Portuguese sailors in the 15th century, its strength, aggression, and nobility quickly became integrated i...
Category
Early 20th Century Guinea-Bissauan Tribal Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Hide, Wood
"Day Turns to Night" by Michael Thompson
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera-including fragments ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Fabric, Bamboo, Paper
Yoruba Beaded Sash, c. 1950
Located in Chicago, IL
This intricately-constructed colorful train was painstakingly created by Yoruba artisans in Nigeria in the mid-20th century. Recent designs such as this were based upon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerian Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Shell, Fabric, Beads
Josef Albers Silk Screen Diptych
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
Josef Albers formulations - Articulations I & II Print #9
Edition 974/ 1000
1972 screen-print on paper
Embossed with Josef Albers initials, portfolio and folder number. This work is ...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Vintage Chinese Hatamen Brand Cigarette Advertisement Poster, c. 1935
Located in Chicago, IL
With its product discretely located on the lower left, this early 20th century Shanghai poster for Hatamen cigarettes uses a dramatically rendered imag...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Christo Signed in Christo in Crayon Lithograph
By Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in Chicago, IL
Christo and Jeanne-Claude and Christo Signed in Christo in Crayon Lithograph: This work shows conceptual project; over the river is a two-week temporary...
Category
1990s North American Organic Modern Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
French Delahaye Automobile Huge Original Oil Painting, c1930's Over 6' x 7'
Located in Chicago, IL
Huge French Oil on Canvas, circa late 1930s of a Delahaye Automobile. We cannot decide if this was painted in a large-scale, only to be reduced for an ...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Acrylic Painting Attributed to French Artist Roland David
Located in Chicago, IL
Attributed to Roland David a relatively unknown French painter from the mid-late 20th century. We thoroughly enjoy his style and use of vivid colors and recently we purchased several...
Category
1970s French Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Acrylic
Warner Friedman Painting "In Old Shanty Town"
By Raymond Lowey
Located in Chicago, IL
Warner Friedman Painting "In Old Shanty Town" oil on large canvas, Industrial Graphic Minimalism.
Signed on verso 1985
Category
1980s American Industrial Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Chinese Fertilizer Advertisement Poster
Located in Chicago, IL
Influenced by Western advertising, commercial posters featuring beautiful women in modern settings gained popularity in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Posters like this one came to symbolize prosperity and fortune and were often purchased by Chinese consumers to decorate their homes. This 1930s advertisement...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Abstract Oil on Paper by Robert Winslow Titled "Wati Wati Looks For Reason”
By Robert Winslow
Located in Chicago, IL
Abstract oil on paper by Robert Winslow Titled "Wati Wati Looks For Reasons". Oil, graphite and ink on paper depicting abstract geometric shapes. Gray b...
Category
1990s American Futurist Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Paint, Paper
Clyde Burt House Shaped Ceramic Wall Plaque
By Clyde Burt
Located in Chicago, IL
Clyde Burt house shaped ceramic wall relief in glazed stoneware with turned wood exterior sides and wooden frame.
Signed to front: [C. BURT].
American, circa 1965.
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Ceramic
Angelo Testa Painting
By Angelo Testa
Located in Chicago, IL
Angelo Testa, untitled, watercolor on paper, 13 1/4" x 16"
Signed "angelo testa" lower right recto, framed circa 1950
Testa studied fine art painting and sculpture at the Chicago In...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Clyde Burt Ceramic Wall Art
By Clyde Burt
Located in Chicago, IL
Clyde Burt abstract ceramic wall relief in glazed stoneware with wooden frame.
Signed to front: [C. BURT].
American, circa 1965.
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Ceramic
19th Century Tibetan Thangka of Chenresi
Located in Chicago, IL
Thangkas are devotional paintings displayed by Buddhists in monasteries, temples, and even in their homes. The rich red, orange, green, and blue hues are still incredibly vibrant on ...
Category
Early 19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Brass
“Zadkiel” Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
In the series “Heavenly,” Toyoharu Kii honors the fullness of life and its continual rebirth. In some works, white tesserae assume abstract profiles. In others, irregular shapes cont...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
Tony Rosenthal Wall Relief
By Tony Rosenthal
Located in Chicago, IL
Sculpture "After Shadow World" by Rosenthal, torch-cut and painted aluminum.
Etched signature lower right corner Rosenthal 61
Category
1960s American Brutalist Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Aluminum
Tony Rosenthal Relief
By Tony Rosenthal
Located in Chicago, IL
Wall sculpture "RVER RUN AGAIN" by Rosenthal, torch-cut, burned and painted aluminum. Etched signature lower right and verso Rosenthal 61 (shown last image).
Category
1960s American Brutalist Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Aluminum
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 14
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 14
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Family Reunion 3" by Travis Somerville
Located in Chicago, IL
Deeply familiar yet nonetheless confrontational, Travis Somerville’s “Family Renuion” series disrupts nostalgia and memory, insisting on the idea that images and material objects are...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"Flower Near the Staircase" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
A leader of the cross-cultural craft resurgence, Japan-based artist Toyoharu Kii creates his intricate mosaics with handcut Italian marble and smalti, Venetian glass made by the same Italian family for over 400 years. Using traditional Italian techniques, Kii’s art is nonetheless modern. It is monochromatic, abstract, and highly textured and highlights the involved and technical art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Marble
"Treasures of the Scholars' Studio" Chinese Painting, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
With careful brushwork, this 19th century painting honors the four treasures of the scholar's studio - paper, calligraphy brush, ink, and inkstone. Essenti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Fabric
Vintage Chinese 1930s Advertisement Poster
Located in Chicago, IL
This vintage poster from the 1930s features a fashionably dressed young mother posing with her son and daughter. The poster may have been given as a gift for the Chinese New Year, as...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"VFTS682" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qual...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 22
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 22
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 29
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 29
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
"NGC-6397" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qual...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chicago - Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
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