Foundations: Architecturally-themed Prints

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative presents

Foundations: Architecturally-themed prints

Show opening: Saturday, September 6th, 5:00p - 8:00pm

4912 N Western Ave, Lincoln Square, Chicago 

https://chicagoprintmakers.com/cpc_events/foundations-architecturally-themed-prints/

CityBound - Prints and Notecards at Storm Print City, Evanston

We resume business in Evanston at Storm Print City, 2601 Prairie Avenue at the northeast corner of Central Street and Prairie

Thursdays - Saturdays, 11am - 5pm

November 20 - 23 and November 29 - 30 (open Thanksgiving eve, closed Thanksgiving)

December 12 - 14 and December 19 - 21

My notecards and prints will be on sale 

           Chicago (set of 4) 

Skyline the Lake and Lincoln Park  

1060 West Addison Wrigley Field

Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive ...Waiting for the light 

The Tribune Tower and Wrigley Building at Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive

             

March 2022 Welcome to my 2022 Blog!

Chicago Major League Baseball has the greenlight to begin Spring Training at their March camps.  Playing will begin in early April for the White Sox and Cubs.

I have been active these last nine months at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative and at home with pen and ink and watercolors, preparing new work, some of which I will share with you.

These two etchings represent the little known park on the Chicago River at 444 West Lake Street.  The River Point Park contains the recent contribution of the art of Santiago Calatrava.

                                                        

                                      Calatrava's Constellation

                                          River Point Park

                                              Chicago

                                             Etching 182

                                              with hand coloring

                                               8.5" x 9.5"

                                                                          

                                Constellation by Calatrava

                                       in River Point Park  

                                         Chicago   

                                   Aquatint Etching 180 with hand coloring

                                            11" x 8.5"

Santiago Calatrava (born in 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter.

The sculpture Constellation 2019-2020 is in River Point Park on the river at 444 West Lake Street.

Major League Baseball will start in April and the full season of 162 games will contribute to the nation's major pass time.

Four of my watercolored Evanston scenes are:  Hecky's, Mustard's Diner on Central Street, the Alice Millar Chapel on Sheridan Rd and Chicago Avenue, The Grosse Point Lighthouse on Sheridan Rd.

Hecky's

"it's the sauce"

Evanston

7" x 10"

Watercolor

Mustard's Last Stand on Central Street

Evanston

6.5" x 11"

Watercolor

Alice Millar Chapel 

Evanston

8.5" x 7"

Watercolor

Grosse Point  Lighthouse

Green Bay Road

Evanston

7.5" x 6.5"

Watercolor

Baseball has returned to the Sports page.  These a a few of my Ball Park Etchings:

                                            

"This is Wrigley Field"

with the Pat Pieper quote

aquatint etching with hand coloring

plate 159   8" x 13"

                                    Addison and Sheffield from  the "L"

                                           with Pat Pieper quote

                                     aquatint etching with hand coloring    

                                                 plate 28

                                               7" x 9"

                                The Home of the Chicago White Sox 

                                aquatint etching with hand coloring

                                       plate 163  9" x 11"

November 2021 and Current Printmaking Events

This year Chicago celebrates the One Hundred Year Birthdays  for two iconic city sites

The famed Chicago Theater on State Street celebrates its 100th Birthday 2021

          The Chicago Theater, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theater, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago.  Built in 1921, the Chicago Theater was the flagship for Balaban and Katz.  Currently Madison Square Garden, Inc. owns the theater.

                             6 x 5 inch Aquatint Etching  with hand coloring

                                               Limited Edition of 35

                                              

The Wrigley Building is on the Chicago River at Michigan Avenue and is 100 this year.

When ground was broken for the Wrigley Building in 1920, there were no major office buildings north of the Chicago River. The Michigan Avenue Bridge now the Du Sable Bridge, which spans the river just south of the building, was still under construction. 

The land was selected by chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr. for the headquarters of the company. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson Probst, and White using the shape of the Giralda tower of Seville Cathedral combined with French Renaissance details.

The south tower was completed in September 1921 and the north tower in May 1924. 

The two towers are of differing heights, with the south tower rising to 30 stores and the north tower to 21 stories. The building is clad in six shades of white glazed terra-cotta.

6 x 6.25 inch Aquatint Etching with chine colle

Each of these images are from my portfolio of Etching Aquatints of Chicago.

After recent delays.....

32nd Annual International Small Print Show and Holiday Open House will begin at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative!

 Grand Opening Party: 

Saturday and Sunday, December 4-5, 2021, 11am-7pm both days.

Preview the exhibition Friday December 3, 12-5pm 

 

Extended Holiday hours:

Tuesdays - Sundays, December 7 through December 19th, 12-5pm.

 

All visitors must be masked and fully vaccinated.

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

4912 North Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625

Two new etchings available at the CPC Small Print Show are :

                    Chicago  Skyline from Museum Park

                    Aquatint Etching with hand coloring

                                5 x 9  inch plate

 

                        River Point Chicago    Constellation by Calatrava*

                                Aquatint Etching with hand coloring

                                                9 x 7 inch plate

*Santiago Calatrava (born in 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and painter.

The sculpture Constellation 2019-2020 is in the park that borders the Chicago River at 444 West Lake Street.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Aquatint Etching with hand coloring

6 x 9 inches

                 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,

                                   My Latest Etching of Chicago

The famous Chicago contemporary art museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, was established in 1967 in the Streeterville area of Chicago.   Thousands of modern art artifacts world wide were accumulated by collectors. These represented the period following the 1940's and World War II.

In 1991, prominent Chicago businessmen initiated a plan for a new museum and by 1996 the current building on Chicago Avenue became a reality.  The architect chosen was Josef Paul Kleihues.

Across the Street from

Goodman Theater
10" x 8"


The view of buildings at 159 North Dearborn remind me of a bygone era in Chicago.  This view is from the second floor of our famous Goodman Theater.

  The Bridge at Wells Street

Chicago

5" x 5"

Skyscrapers Stand Proud

The Skyscrapers stand proud.

     They seem to say they have
     sought the absolute
     and made it their own.

Yet they are blameless,
     innocent as dumb steel and the dumber
     concrete of their bastions.

“Man made us,” they murmur. “We are
     proud only as a man is proud and we
     have no more found the absolute
     than has man.”

Read more about the Chicago poet, Carl Sandburg

The Newberry Library

The Newberry Library is a world-class research and archival library. 

This signed etching frames to 11" x 9"

The City Restored

Sweet Home.  Chicago

The city has its roots in the soil of the American Prairie.  But the people who came here speak the world’s languages.  The city grew to the heavens in the 20^th century but kept its feet on the ground.  It’s still a city that works: brash, gritty, but filled with beauty that can take your breath away.  It is as rough as a steelworker’s hands and as soft as a spring breeze off Lake Michigan, sweetening every street corner.

From a 1990 Chicago Tribune article 

Regeneration is the theme for this bas relief at the Michigan Avenue bridge-tender.

This bas relief from 1924 called "Regeneration" is dedicated to the women and men that brought the city back from the great fire. 

This art by James Earl Fraser and Henry Hering adorns the river's bridge-tender on the southeast side of the DuSable bridge at Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue.

My prints of this historic site are shown below.

This is a limited edition print that frames to 12 x 9 inches.    Plate 124

This is a hand colored print that frames to 12 x 9 inches.   Plate 124

This is a print with chine colle that frames to 12 x 9 inches.    Plate 124

My newest set of note cards, Set Q will be available soon and they are views of the city from my etchings.

Set Q

 Chicago ...a Skyline from the lakeside Adler Planetarium.

Cloud Gate, a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza in Millennium Park.  It was built in 2004-2006.

The Newberry Library in Washington Square Park was established in 1887 as an independent research library specializing in the humanities.

Riverside Canyons pictures the Chicago River splitting the developing Wacker Drive buildings south along the river.

Chicago

Cloud Gate

the Newberry Library

Riverside Canyons

Preview of new prints for Fall 2013

Chicago   Windows on Michigan Avenue is an Aquatint Etching that is Hand Colored and frames to 14" x 14"

Chicago   the Red Chair at 5 O'Clock is an aquatint etching with hand coloring and frames to 20" x 16".

The CTA Train crosses the Chicago River at Wells Street in this aquatint etching that frames to 12" x 9".

Chicago Streeterville     the Prentiss Hospital by the Architect Bertrand Goldberg
An aquatint etching that frames to 14" x 11".

La Rabida Children's Hospital
This Aquatint Etchings is a representation of the famous South Shore hospital on the shores of Lake Michigan.