Friday, February 22, 2013

The Christine Schwartz Collection


James William Pattison




Jerome Klapka






Being creative, playful, and artsy, the early members of the Palette and Chisel, as well as their other Chicago colleagues, exemplified Bohemia, at least as far as their Midwestern neighbors were concerned.


But compared with the Bohemians of Montmartre, and all the avant garde enclaves that followed, they were rather conventional -- and so they remain outside the Modernist-centered history of 20th C. art.


But that doesn't mean that their paintings were any the worse for it.


And since major art museums won't touch them, it's left up to discerning private collectors to preserve that era, and one of the best is the Christine Schwartz Collection, which has gone online to give these artists a permanent display.


It's also commissioned a local art historian, Wendy Greenhouse, to document the artists with brief biographies of each one.


Above, are paintings from two Palette and Chisel members whose work I'd never seen before.


Below, are pages for each of the other P&C members in the collection, with excellent images and lots of new information about them.








Adam Emory Albright


J. Jeffrey Grant


Louis Oscar Griffith


Otto Hake


E. Martin Hennings


Victor Higgins


Rudolph Ingerle


Alfred Jansson


Jerome Klapka


Karl Krafft


Arvid Nyholm


James William Pattison





Monday, February 18, 2013

Faculty Show 2013


Steven Assael


It's kind of exciting to have a new, prominent figure painter teaching a workshop this year. You can usually see his work every year when Forum Gallery comes to Chicago for the annual art expo.




Steven Assael


As Tor pointed out, he painted the highlights of the eyes with the reflection off a glob of black paint.





David Leffel



(This is a portrait of Kishio Takeda who had the southwest studio on the second floor for many years)




Bo Zhang



Bo Zhang


For some reason, Misha Livshulz has been a very popular model this year.




Here's Mary Qian's version of that same scruffy face.





(photos of artists by Del Hall)



Clayton Beck



Clayton Beck
















Errol Jacobson



Errol Jacobson
















Helen Oh



Helen Oh
















Don Yang
















Stuart Fullerton








Marci Oleszkiewicz
















Michael Van Zeyl

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Budget 2013

The first document below is the audited statement for 2011

































Below is the un-audited ledger for 2012









And here's the 2013 budget: