As Chicago grew into the world-class city it is today, its civic leaders took exceptional care in their cultivation of the arts. The establishment of the Art Institute, the widespread support of wealthy patronage, and the activity of numerous organizations including the Chicago Architectural Club, the Urban League, and the Chicago Women's Club, combined to make Chicago home to many painters. Since rising from the ashes in 1873, Chicago has supported generation after generation of inspired artists who painted land and cityscapes, and honored their patrons with portraits. The full length and breadth of their amazing work can at last be appreciated in the Powell and Barbara Bridges Collection.             Susan C. Larsen provides a profile of the collectors and introduces the Bridges Collection, featuring an impressive range of canvases by Charles Francis Browne, Alice Kellogg Tyler, Frank Peyraud, Alfred Juergens, and other notable painters. Formerly the private treasure of the Bridges, Chicago Painting makes all 78 paintings of their remarkable collection available, in full color, to art lovers the world over.    Wendy Greenhouse offers a host of insights into the lives and work of the artists who worked prior to the turn of the last century.  She surveys the "conservative" Chicago painters who resisted the avant-garde, showing that while the European avant-garde did exert an influence, excellent work continued to be done in traditional genres such as portraits and landscapes.  Painters the quality of Junius Sloan, Lucie Hartrath, George Peter Alexander Healy, Louis Betts, Ralph Clarkson, and Daniel Folger Bigelow are represented here.   Finally, Susan Weiniger guides us into the Modernist era Chicago painters--Gertrude Abercrombie, Frances Strain, Frederic Tellander, Rudolph Weisenborn, and others--whose works show conclusively that Chicago did more than import avant-garde painting. Chicago Painting 1895 to 1945 also includes updated biographies of 49 painters and commentary on each painting.  

CHICAGO PAINTING 1895 TO 1945: THE BRIDGES COLLECTION

Arts & Photography

Wendy Greenhouse

Susan C. Larsen

Kent Smith

Susan Weiniger

History & Criticism

University of Illinois Press

This is a softbound book published by the Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square Portland, Maine in 2002 as an exhibition catalog from February --May 27, 2002. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2001 135849. It includes black and white and color illustrations of the artist and his works. There is an Introduction by Daniel O'Leary, a Chronology, Checklist of the Exhibition, Lenders to the Exhibition and Selected Public Collections.

The Poetry Within: the Life and Work of William Thon

Portland Museum of Art

Collector's Copy...UNCIRCULATED...looks like never read, no marks, clean inside and out. Collectors Condition. MINT (9.6)

Millard Sheets: Six Decades of Painting

Sheets, Millard

Janice Lovoos

William G. Otton

The Laguna Beach Museum of Art

Charles Biederman

Charles Joseph Biederman (1906?2004) was a highly influential and iconoclastic American artist and theoretician who influenced the modernist movement both abroad and in the United States. He was particularly drawn to the relationship between nature and art, and wrote extensively on the subject?it became the topic of fourteen books that he published. Deeply engaged in theories of art and nature and art and science, he maintained a nine-year correspondence, eventually published, with the British quantum physicist and philosopher David Bohm. Biederman, Midwesterner by birth, held nature as the ultimate root of art, but insisted upon a wholly abstract translation of the natural into visual elements of color, plane, and form. He worked extensively in the medium of sculptural reliefs created in painted metal to execute his vision of creating pure visual forms; these reliefs became his most sought-after work. Biederman?s work is represented in distinguished collections across the United States and Western Europe, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate, London, among many others. Susan C. Larsen is an art historian and former curator of the Permanent Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This monograph was initiated and researched by Neil Juhl Larsen (1956?2006), a brilliant friend and trusted colleague of the artist.

Neil Juhl Larsen

Hudson Hills

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