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For artists with more than one type of work in the collection, or for works by artists not listed here, see the Artic website or the corresponding Wikimedia Commons category. Of artists listed, less than 10% are women. For the complete list of artists and their artworks in the collection, see the website.
Richard Wetzel (born October 23, 1943) is an American artist. He is best known for his oil paintings but also has exhibited collages and sculpture. In 1969 and 1970, Wetzel exhibited with the Chicago Imagists, a grouping of Chicago artists who were ascendant in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In 2010, Sixty Inches From Center was established and includes The Chicago Arts Archive, a web publication focusing on visual art in Chicago. [69] Additionally, Chicago Artists Resource, launched by the Department of Cultural Affairs in 2005, provides articles on visual art in addition to providing resources and tools for Chicago artists.
In the early 1960s, Bob Chase began developing a plan for a fine art gallery. [5] He had recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison [6] [5] and convinced his father, Merrill Chase, who owned a portrait photography business, [1] to join him in opening a fine art gallery that would focus on emerging artists, mid-career artists, and works of art on paper by masters.
Physique photography is a tradition of photography of nude or semi-nude (usually muscular) men which was largely popular between the early 20th century and the 1960s. Physique photography originated with the physical culture and bodybuilding movements of the early 20th century, but was gradually co-opted by homosexual producers and consumers ...
"By the 1960s, portrait studios were routinely offering color photographic prints from color negatives." #25 Panorama Of The Seven Bridges, Paris, Ca. 1895 Image credits: Photoglob Zürich
His art work was featured in "Chicago and Vicinity" - an annual exhibition that featured work from Artists in Chicago - in 1956, 1960, 1969, and 2016. [5] In the early 1970s, Kapsalis' work was in a two-year exhibit sponsored by the Illinois Arts Council , which consisted of 4 paintings from 24 different Illinois based painters.
Recent efforts, such as an online exhibit organized by the Block Museum at Northwestern University (which includes a clickable map of the Wall's individual portraits), [13] and the edited volume, The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (Northwestern University Press, 2017), aim to recover the Wall's history and ...