Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Sherrie McGraw Drawing Workshop

Yikes ! She can draw !

Sherrie McGraw

lives a bit too far away to become a P&C member,
but she certainly can draw the figure,
and she's teaching a week-long
drawing workshop here
in September.

What a fine class for the P&C to be hosting.



Tuesday, August 21, 2007

New Monument for a Chicago Park



Recent P&C instructor,
Susan Clinard,

will join various city and trade union officials
in dedicating her new statue of

Samuel Gompers

in Gompers Park at Pulaski and Foster Ave
at 9:00 AM on Labor Day, 2007

(note: Ms. Clinard's portrait of Jane Ellen Murray
was recently installed in the P&C garden)

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Platinum Show (Works On Paper)

Mort Luby


(note: this show was juried for prizes,
but since the juror, a local gallerist,
wished to remain anonymous,
I see no point in recording his decisions)



Robert Krajecki


Sergio Rocha


Tom Francesconi


J. Antonio Bedolla


John Handley



Kathleen Newman


Barb Lockhart


Moissei Liangeben


Andrea Vincent


Chad Aldrin


Charlotte Arnold


Lenin Delsol


Don Lindstrom

Friday, August 10, 2007

Juergens Confirmed


Yes, it turns out that the P&C Juergens
who exhbited in the 1915 Artists of Chicago Show
at the Art Institute was indeed Alfred Juergens
(whose artistic legacy was recently discovered in a west suburban attic)


(Note: the Samuel James Kennedy listed above
was the P&C member
responsible for the first and only modernist show at the club)



Juergens was also given a one-man show at the Art Institute
(back in the day when the museum supported local artists)


Here's his bio from the catalog of that exhibit




Here's a page from his sketch book,
currently kept in the archives
of the Ryerson Library.

Friday, August 03, 2007

Leviathan in the Garden

Occasional contributor to this blog,
Aaron Seckman was found last weekend
making preparatory sketches
with two models posing outdoors
in the P&C garden.

The expenses for this event
were fortuitously covered by a
grant from the City of Chicago

The subject involves
an allegory drawn from
"Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes.

Exhibit: Plein Aire Summer 2007

Fred Wackerle




(note: perhaps this exhibit is better titled
"Landscape painters of the Palette and Chisel"
since many of the paintings were not done outdoors
or by the members of the Plein Aire painting group)





Fred Wackerle




Brian Minder


Jane Ellen Murray


Kathleen Newman


Leslie Outten


Rita Rogan


Jim Kujaca

Misha Livshultz

Misha Livshultz

Mort Luby


Nancie Mertz


Nancy Albrecht


John Cooper


Pablo DeLeon

Kevin Hunter

Errol Jacobson

Ed Wentz


Stuart Fullerton


Stuart Fullerton



Linda Vice