Sculpture

The Gift of Art

Location

310 S. Humphrey Avenue
60302 Oak Park, IL
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, McMahon, Margot
Date: 
2015
Edition: 
Volume: 
Issue: 
Abstract: 
"The Gift of Art is a how-to book explaining in detail the content of workshops that give students the time and space to exercise creativity by learning sculpting processes." *
Language: 
English
Notes: 
* Abstract taken from http://www.margotmcmahon.com/giftofart.html
Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
9781495177408
Item Donor: 
Margot McMahon

The Milton Horn, Sculptor, 1906-1995

Catalog Number: 
Book, The Milton Horn Fine Arts Trust
Date: 
1996
Abstract: 
A sales catalogue of reproductions of works by Chicago artist and sculptor Milton Horn, including commentary and a biography.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Includes an abstract map of the Chicago area and a list of places where Milton Horn's works are located.
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Chicago: The Coloring Book

Catalog Number: 
Book, Beh, Kennedy
Date: 
2006
Edition: 
3rd printing
Abstract: 
A coloring book that highlights famous Chicago sites with accompanying poems.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
c. 1990, 1995, 2006
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Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
096413280X

Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann

Catalog Number: 
Book, Rooks
Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
Exhibition catalog for the exhibit, "Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann," curated by Michael Rooks and on display at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Montclair Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. "'Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westerman' attempts to shed light on the artist's early enthusiasm for painting and the implications this had for his development as a mature student who had already reached his 30s at the close of his years at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago." (p. 14).
Language: 
English
Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
0972726667

Jose De Rivera: Sculpture, Painting, Works on Paper

Catalog Number: 
book, de rivera jose
Date: 
November 1, 2002
Abstract: 
The book for a 2002 exhibition of works by American artist Jose De Rivera (1904-1985), held at the Valerie Carberry Gallery on Michigan Avenue. An essay by Joan Pachner outlines De Rivera's career, a short preface to 20 pages of full-color photographs of De Rivera's abstract works from the 1930s through the 1980s.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
35 pages, glossy
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Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
0972483705

The New Authentics

Herbert Ferber: Painting, Sculpture, & Drawing from the 1960s

Catalog Number: 
Book Ferber
Date: 
2004
Abstract: 
Catalog of an exhibition of sculpture and painting by artist Herbert Ferber at the Valerie Carberry Gallery in 2004. Includes an essay by Debra Bricker Balken.
Language: 
English
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Format: 
ISSN/ISBN: 
0972483756

From A Position

Catalog Number: 
Book, Graham, Maxwell G.
Date: 
May 2009
Abstract: 
A documentation of the Contemporary Arts Council's (of Evanston, IL) 15th annual exhibition of new and emerging Chicago based artists. Presents artwork exploring the relationships of figure and ground, literally and metaphorically. Artwork presented shares a well defined graph of distances between subjects and objects which always portray a place, person, or idea which exists as a spatial and temporal background to the foregrounded object of art.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Date assumed from exhibition showing dates. Abstract compiled from front masthead and introductory words.
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Christine Tarkowski: Administrative Bunker + Rook

Catalog Number: 
Book Tarkowski
Date: 
2004
Abstract: 
Catalog of an exhibition in 2004 by sculptor Christine Tarkowski at the Hyde Park Art Center. Includes an essay by Hamza Walker.
Language: 
English
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