Summer Suite 2026

 

Bodo Stolzenberger

Bodo’s annual group show keeps getting better and better,

as do Bodo’s own gritty drawings. 

Things are getting under control.

Decades of daily practice is a good thing.

Paula Herrera

Paula is famous for cats and mythical figures,

but these realistic portraits surprised me,

so strong and sensitive

Especially this one of Nono,

with poem attached.

A soulful portrait of an unusual woman, who,

like Paula, comes from another part  of the world.

I do like cats….. but… is it possible to have too many?

Mary Klug

Mary Klug

I totally agree that robins are a serious problem when nesting in your hair.

A fine update on Edvard  Munch

who had far less reason to be screaming

(Mary showed the same piece last year, but that’s OK. I like it.)

Cindy Hilliard 

Cindy Hilliard, watercolor

A member new to Chicago.

Do we need someone to teach watercolor? 

She’s good,

and she draws a fine figure, too.

Mary Palmer, Chicago Transit Rider

Looks like this guy never gets off the train

Mark Huddle, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Was it really a steel cage match?

Mark Huddle

Urban rhythms.

Joan Stachnik , Herrerasaurus

(presumably, no relation to Paula)

drawing some of the world’s oldest models 

 at the Field Museum

Henning Ryden (1869 - 1939)

 

A very delicate low relief dated 1900.

Recalling the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)

Donated to the coach house by Stuart Fullerton.

painter, engraver, and sculptor, Henning Ryden was born in Blekinge, Sweden. He studied in Stockholm and Copenhagen before immigrating to America in 1891. He continued studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, in Paris, London, and Berlin. 

 He settled in Chicago where he worked in sculpture and painted landscapes and exhibited work in the Swedish-American art exhibitions and at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco.