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Item Ships From: Illinois
"Drawing for the Sponsor" by Patrick Fitzgerald
By Patrick Fitzgerald
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Drawing for The Sponsor," this work by Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald envisions an advertisement by Southport Tool and Die, a Chicago company from the 1940s and th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

"Aeriform" Kite 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 fragment...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Silk, Bamboo, Paper

Blue and Silver Abstract Print
Located in Countryside, IL
Blue and silver abstract print This print measures: 24 wide x 1 deep x 24 inches high This print is in Great Vintage Condition with minor marks, ...
Category

2010s American Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

"Camael" 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 Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

M P Marion Mid Century Landscape Mixed Media Collage
Located in Countryside, IL
M P Marion mid century landscape mixed media collage This collage measures: 22.25 wide x .75 deep x 28.25 inches high This Collage is in Good Vintage Co...
Category

1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, Paper

"Raphael" 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 Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

Torque Wall Form by Erin Vincent
By Erin Vincent
Located in Chicago, IL
A framed textural wall sculpture made from foam, aqua resin, paper and ink on board by Canadian artist Erin Vincent. Her work is inspired by the beauty an...
Category

2010s Canadian Organic Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Resin, Foam, Wood, Paper

"River and Pond" Kite 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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Bamboo, Paint, Paper

"Patina" Kite 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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Bamboo, Paper

"Denkbilder" by Patrick Fitzgerald
By Patrick Fitzgerald
Located in Chicago, IL
To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his miniature car sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Born from a fascination with the soap box derby cars of his youth, eac...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint, Paper

"Jeremiel" 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 Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

"Study in Red" by Michael Thompson
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique compositions of abstract painted elements and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera—including fragments of fabric, scrolls, drawings, and books collected during his travels. In a departure from his split bamboo kite series, this work on stretched canvas entitled "Study in Red" layers textured paper and silken fragments within a rosy red color story. A gradient of red to pink sweeps across the composition, interrupted by a panel of Japanese silk depicting a whimsical scene...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Silk, Canvas, Paint, Paper

"Azrael" 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 Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

"Seascape" by Michael Thompson
By Michael Thompson
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Seascape," this painting by Chicago artist Michael Thompson is a departure from the collage work of his ongoing kite series. Rendered in grayscale palette, the painting has...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint

"Study for Caldwell 49" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
The colorful paintings of Jan Pieter Fokkens transport us to distant worlds beyond our comprehension. Within seemingly infinite networks of lines, dots, and crosses, he decodes the r...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paint, Canvas

"Abstraction in Cobalt" Kite 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 fragment...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Silk, Bamboo

'Snake River' by Karen Parisian
By Karen Parisian
Located in Chicago, IL
Snake River ’ by Chicago Artist, Karen Parisian. Acrylic + mixed media on canvas. Karen Parisian is a Chicago based artist. Her work can be thought of ...
Category

2010s American Mid-Century Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint

"Cloud" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Cloud," this mosaic work by Japanese artist Toyoharu Kii tells a story of nature and rebirth. As with many of Kii's works, the lively and chaotic field of white marble tess...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Organic Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

'Balance of Opposites' by Karen Parisian
By Karen Parisian
Located in Chicago, IL
Acrylic on canvas. Karen Parisian is a Chicago based artist. Her work can be thought of as Spiritual Modernism as she has found inspiration in the modern masters as well as her o...
Category

2010s North American Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

Oil Painting of a Banana Tree in Blossom
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely-executed oil painting was produced by Prayat Tadonock in 1990. Prayat was trained as a fine artist according to Thai classical principles and then learned Western oil pai...
Category

20th Century Thai Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint

"Clouded 20.19" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
In the series “Clouded,” Toyoharu Kii honors the fullness of life and its continual rebirth. In some works, white tesserae assume abstract profiles. In others, irregular shapes conta...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

"Victorian Soiree" Mixed-Media Tile by Pauline Hughes
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary British Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Ceramic, Paper

"Ladies at Tea" Mixed-Media Tile by Pauline Hughes
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary British Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Ceramic, Paper

"Study for Messier 17" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Study for Messier 17," this painting by Chicago-artist Jan Pieter Fokkens offers a representation of the spectacular star-forming region Messier 17, also known as the Omega...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

"Study for Tarantula Nebula" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "Study for Tarantula Nebula," this painting by Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens offers a representation of the gigantic star-forming region of the same name. Located ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood

"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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

"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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, Paper

"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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Bamboo, 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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

"E0102-72.3" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
The colorful paintings of Jan Pieter Fokkens transport us to distant worlds beyond our comprehension. Within his seemingly infinite networks of lines, dots, and crosses, he decodes t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

"A Wheel Stopper" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
In the mosaic “A Wheel Stopper,” Toyoharu Kii records an object he encounters everyday while walking his dog. The round form, striped by small, rectangular tesserae, represents a bol...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Minimalist Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

"NGC-3201" 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 qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how reality is mediated by digital image. Entitled "NGC-3201," this vibrant drawing offers a representation of the globular cluster NGC-3201. Using an image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

"Weathering" 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 hand-cut Italian marble and smalti, Venetian glass made by the sam...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Minimalist Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

"Accumulated Roads" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
By Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
In the mosaic “Accumulated Roads,” Toyoharu Kii describes the futility of man’s attempts to traverse and tame nature. The work portrays a tangle of once carefully aligned tesserea pa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Organic Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

“Weird Adventure” 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 qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how we as viewers negotiate our realities. Entitled "Weird Adventure," this diptych depicts a still from the Italian Classic film...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas

"Family Reunion 2" by Travis Somerville
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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paint, Paper

Josef Albers Silk Screen Print
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
Josef Albers, Formulations - Articulations I & II Edition 974/ 1000 1972 screen-print on paper Embossed with Josef Albers initials, portfolio and folder number. This work is publi...
Category

1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

Contemporary Abstract Mixed-Media Work by John Fraser
By John Fraser
Located in Chicago, IL
John Fraser (1952-), three dimensional art collage on board with an open and pageless book, tape, acrylic paint and multilayered paper. Nicely backed and mounted. Titled "Interior with Blue Highlights." Measures: 18" x 18". Galleries with John Fraser permanent collections and select permanent collections. The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH. The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE. The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa, Fe, NM. The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI. The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Esteban Vincente...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Paper, Wood

"Family Reunion 1" by Travis Somerville
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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper

"Waiting for the Time" 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 of mosaic making. In this marble mosaic entitled "Waiting for the Time," Kii imagines the pensive serenity of laying in wait, taking inspiration from the dormant stage of an insect life cycle. Kii explains, “an insect in its pupal stage is sleeping underground, waiting for the time to wake up and become an insect. Nearby is a heavy rock covered by thick soil. It would be long and hard...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

Grant Newman "Two-Way"
By Grant Newman
Located in Chicago, IL
"Two-Way" SidebySide Series 2014 The works from the SidebySide series consist of sewn fabric arrangements exhibiting subtle, intimate material displays. The fabrics used in these ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric

"Abandoned Land" 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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

Grant Newman "Stacked Fields" 2014
By Grant Newman
Located in Chicago, IL
"Stacked Fields" SidebySide 2014 The works from the SidebySide series consist of sewn fabric arrangements exhibiting subtle, intimate material displays. The fabrics used in these ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric

Flemish Painting of "Pastoral Scene"
Located in Chicago, IL
This Flemish painting of "Pastoral Scene" is from Belgium and is made from oil on canvas, 18th century. Flemish paintings flourished from the early 1...
Category

18th Century Belgian Antique Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas

"Obscured Text V" Kite 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 Organic Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Bamboo, Paper, Fabric

"Clover Valley II" Kite 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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Bamboo, Paper

Pair of Massive Mid-Century Modern Abstract Original Acrylic Paintings
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of 20th century original, framed abstract acrylic on canvas paintings in a geometric design. Titled "Fractured #2" and "Fractured #5," unsigned. Image size is 39" W x 52" H.
Category

20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Wood

"Restoration Test, " Mutli-Media Mosaic, 2017
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 Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Marble

"Winter" by Ren Hui
By Ren Hui
Located in Chicago, IL
In this exquisite painting, artist Ren Hui celebrates the beauty of nature using a style that he calls “uncomplicated and honest.” Entitled "Winter," this patterned composition was c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint

"Les Lettres" Contemporary Art Work by Raoul W.
Located in Chicago, IL
This contemporary art work entitled "Les Lettres" by Raoul W. This piece was made from various sizes and style of print blocks with a metal frame...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary French Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

"Les Lettres" Contemporary Art Work by Raoul W.
Located in Chicago, IL
This contemporary art work entitled "Les Lettres" by Raoul W. This piece was made from various sizes and style of print blocks with a metal frame...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary French Illinois - Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

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