Portraits of the Palette

 

Tom Zavala. "Honey, I broke the Mirror"

A wonderfully assertive portrait of a manly man 

owning up to the damage he’s done.

Chris Heron

A fine, noble piece that makes me think of Paris, 1860

Tor Muehl, Pascale

Our mansion’s beloved French governess brought to life.

What a smile!

Clayton Beck III

Could be a study for Joseph in a Nativity scene.

Sondra Pfeffer

I don’t really see Mark here -

but it’s a strong head.

Possibly made millennia ago and recently unearthed.

Helen Oh

Infringing on the territory of Watteau.

Helen Oh

Such a noble visage  - straight from the 18th Century

Andy Conklin, self portrait

Some anxiety here - he’s feeling cornered and boxed in.

Val Yachik, Last Day of Princess Cat

Our resident master of the macabre.

Poor little Princess.

Chicago Plein Air Painters

Yelena Patskevich

camping by a river and waking up with a hangover?

Is it just wishful thinking 

or are the PAPC shows really getting better?

Arun Dabholkar

Hugh Nicholson

Hugh Nicholson

Mark Cleveland

Elizabeth Buckley-Geer

Barbara Herring

Not just any city - it’s "my city"

Safe, cozy, beloved.

Anna Cherkashina

Anna Cherkashina

Richard Laurent

Richard Laurent

Laura Camunas

 

$400 Show - November 2024

 

Barbara K. Herring

Always the painter of solitary female figures in the urban jungle,

this one is more animated - and strange - than most.

I love her work

Herring appears to be painting a kind of dream world

for no one but herself

yet it fits right into Chicago imagism.

Yalena Potskevich

A transcendent painting of a wonderful view..

I’ve walked across that bridge many times.

Anna Cherkashina

What an ecstatic, celebratory piece.

Both Anna and Yelena were born in Moscow.

Hurray for our Russians!

Stephanie Weidner

Usually a painter of doors, Ms. Weidner has now revealed a magnificent space behind them.

Can’t recall ever seeing a painting of just a big, empty, glowing space.

Errol Jacobson

That fellow seems frozen in time.

An intriguing American scene painting 

done 70 years after that genre was marginalized.

Errol Jacobson

Something ominous here.

The flag is in distress.

How appropriate for last week’s election.

Mark Cleveland

A nicely composed little corner 

Phyllis Brodny

The Palette’s only gourdographer

recording the mysterious private lives of our vegetable friends.

*****

Note: only got to see the large gallery today,

the smaller one was locked.

Muriel Christensen, Priscilla Huang and Jean Yang

 

Art for the sake of social justice ?

No

Art for the sake of  personal angst?

No

Art for the sake of spiritual growth ?

No

Art for the sake of art ?

No

-but-

Art for the sake of an orderly and positive personal and social life ?

For better or worse,

that’s what I think it is.

Kinda reminds me of the old Sears catalogs.

More evidence that Cass Waters once passed through.

This intrepid girl really has her work cut out for her.

Muriel Christensen,

Reminds of the patterns in the Rebecca Morris show that recently closed at the MCA.

Priscilla Huang 

This one’s my favorite in the show.

Jean Yang

Exhibition of early members

 

Wilson Irvine,  1869 -  1936

This piece was found in storage at the academy - though I’d call it one of the better pieces in our collection. It has a strong sense of place and time - as well as an intriguing pattern.

It has a horizontal flow - as well as a flatness - that recalls traditional Chinese landscape painting.  None of his other works online are like it.

Henning Ryden (1869 -1939)

Born in Sweden.

Like many of the pieces in this show,

this comes from the collection of our current President, Stuart Fullerton.

All of the pieces shown on this blog entry are  Stuart’s

except for the Wilson Irvine and this sculpture:

Bruno Beghe

T

Karl Krafft  

Gianni Cilfone, Belmont Harbor

 Frank Raymond 

Walter Parke (1909-1994)

there's much more about him here

This is the kind of  dry, factual, precise study that was required by students of the French academy in the 19th and 18th centuries. Even Cezanne did them as a student  and so did Matisse.

As images  in their own right, however, they sure feel cold, clinical, joyless, awkward, and  boring, 

Curtis Gandy, 1864-1950

Portrait of Rivera-Rigaldo

Arnold Turtle

Arnold Turtle

Gianni Cilfone (1908-1992)

 J. Jeffrey Grant. (1883 - 1960)

Fred Larson

Nat Steinberg

Nat Steinberg