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The design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development from roughly the 1930's to 1965.

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Art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. 

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Developed during the Italian Renaissance, primarily for aesthetics or beauty, the highest art was that which allowed the full expression and display of the artist's imagination.

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Graphic Art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional. It includes calligraphy, photography, painting, typography, computer graphics, and bindery. 

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Works of art that utilize the form of the book. They are often published in small editions, though they are sometimes produced as one-of-a-kind objects.

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The exploration of video art and music or sound set, including visual music, abstract film, audiovisual performances and installations.

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The objects produced by shaping pieces of clay that are then hardened by baking, or the skill of making such objects.

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An artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are carved, modeled, casted, and constructed into a three-dimensional art object. 

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The process of creating artworks by printing, typically on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints that have an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting.

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Something made in an earlier period that is collected and considered to have value because it is beautiful, rare, old, or of high quality.

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Imagery where the subject matter centers around a view or depiction of Chicago. 

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Old Masters refer to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800.

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Socio-Political art is used to help the public understand a particular social or political issue.

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The attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.

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Artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real objects and is representational.

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Individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. Glass art ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces, to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including glass jewelry and tableware.

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Artwork that often deals with Rococo, the Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism.

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From the Tate Museum's website: Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life. Building on late nineteenth-century precedents, artists around the world used new imagery, materials and techniques to create artworks that they felt better reflected the realities and hopes of modern societies.

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Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue to challenge boundaries.

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Art that is concerned with the design and decoration of objects that are chiefly prized for their utility, rather than for their purely aesthetic qualities including, ceramics, glassware, metalware, furniture, textiles, clothing, and more.

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Emerging art is work by artists who are still building their artistic careers and have not yet reached a more established and widely recognized status. 

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Fiber art refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labour on the part of the artist as part of the works' significance, and prioritizes aesthetic value over utility.

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The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events. Freedom from representational qualities in art.

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Art by African-American artists.

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The art and science of designing and making buildings, or the style of a building.

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Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, an emphasis on light and its changing qualities, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.

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From the Tate Museum's website: Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.

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Relating to Africa or people of African descent.

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Eastern European art is a product of recent history. It can be traced to the division of Europe into the Western and Soviet spheres of influence of the allied victory over Germany in World War two.

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Considered one of the most influential periods of art, featuring movements including Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism.

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Skill and experience, especially in relation to making objects by hand.

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The skill of making plans, drawings, or arrangements to show how a building or product is made.

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Asian art is diverse and rich, spanning thousands of years and dozens of countries. It is known for its ritual bronzes, beautiful ceramics, calligraphy, jades, textiles, painted landscapes, garden design, pagodas and stupas, and woodblock prints.

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An artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

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An art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance.

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Some of the most prominent, highly influential artists, who challenged preconceptions and pushed the limits of visual art, shaping the art world of our time.

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Created in accordance with the vision of the artist as a photographer, using photography as a medium to bring something to life that only lives in the artist's mind.

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The design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development from roughly the 1930's to 1965.

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A movement in art and literature that flourished in the early 20th-century. Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control. 

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An innovative discipline which seeks to unify a large range of art forms. This is creatively achieved by combining an array of artistic insights and crafts such as film, literature, performance, music and sound, drama, visual arts, or design.

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The depiction of landscapes in art—natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

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Plein air is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look.

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Printed 2-D artwork which is designed to be affixed to a vertical surface, may consist exclusively of images, or images and text.

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A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.

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These works are often stunningly beautiful, and encourage the viewer to engage with the rich history of research and experimentation that led to the piece’s conception.

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The Art of the American West is defined by geographical subject, consists of historic and contemporary works of art which focus on varying expressions of individuals, landscapes, ideals, and myths of the American West.

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Borrowed from Wikipedia: In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It derives from the reductive aspects of modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and a bridge to postminimal art practices.

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Occupying the space between fine art and the everyday, functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian purposes. The genre is remarkably inclusive, it encompasses everything from furniture and lighting to dishes and even books.

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A range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works.

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Western European art represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time. Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and Classical modes of production. After the mid-19th century modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.

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Visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. Common forms and media include spray paint graffiti, stencil graffiti, poster art, sticker art, street installations, and sculpture.

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Art produced by self-taught or naïve art makers. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.

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Includes manuscripts, prints, drawings, collages, and paintings on paper.

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Artistic expression of Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, as well as Latin and Hispanic Americans living in other regions. Latin American art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas before European colonization in the 16th-century.

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Richard Wright founded Wright auction house in 2000. He has more than 30 years of experience handling and documenting 20th century works. Together, with a highly-qualified team of specialists, researchers, designers and handlers, Wright has sold more than 75,000 works across the spectrum of 20th century art and design and pioneered entire fields of collecting. Wright is the market leader in the sale of architecture as design and Important Italian Glass, achieving record results.


Wright headquarters is centrally located in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood and is home to our consignment offices, production team and creative staff as well as 7,000 square feet of exhibition space. Chicago is also home to Wright Now, our inventory of art and design available for direct purchase, and since fall of 2022 home to Toomey & Co. Auctioneers.

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As a regional art museum that opened its doors in 1997, the Elmhurst Art Museum is committed to showing emerging and established contemporary artists, with a focus on the Chicagoland area and featuring local architects in major exhibits and programming in the McCormick House gallery. The development of their projects, public talks, involvement with our education center, and participation in public and school projects, along with the Museum’s growing collection of over 1,000 artworks, have been key foundations of the organization’s public offering.


Image: Elmhurst Art Museum with Sentrock’s Bird City Saint. Image courtesy of Elmhurst Art Museum. Photo by Liz Chilsen.

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Founded in 2000, Richard Norton Gallery offers a diverse selection of notable American and European Impressionist and Modern paintings, drawings and sculpture from the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The gallery provides a wide range of services, including consultation, appraisal, consignment and purchase of artwork.


Artists include: Gertrude Abercrombie, Egon Adler, George Aldrich, Macena Barton, William Carter, Claude Bentley, Egon Adler, Karl Buehr, Francis Chapin, Georges Maurice Cloud, Alexander Corazzo, William Dalziel, Eugene Dana, (William) Davenport Griffen, Manierre Dawson, Werner Drewes, Hananiah Harari, Harold Haydon, Margo Hoff, Carl Holty, Richard Hunt, George Josimovich, John A. Knudsen, Richard Koppe, Albert Krehbiel, Kenn Kwint, Jan Matulka, Edgar Miller, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Rudolph Pen, Frank Peyraud, Rolph Scarlett, William S. Schwartz, Gerrit Sinclair, John Storrs, Morris Topchevsky, R. LeRoy Turner, Charles Turzak, Clayton Whitehill, among others.


Annual participant in EXPO CHICAGO


Image: John Warren Ekstrom (Am. 1929-2020), Untitled, Oil on Masonite, ca. 1960s, 48” x 54 1/2”  (Framed: 49” x 55 1/2”), Estate stamped on reverse

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The McCormick Gallery features both modern and contemporary art, focusing primarily on painting, works on paper and sculpture. We represent the estates of numerous mid-century American painters with an emphasis on Abstract Expressionism. The gallery also shows both established and emerging contemporary artists. Please call the gallery for exhibition information. 


Image: Mary Abbott, Cry Still, oil on canvas, c. 1960, 71” x 76”

 

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Toomey & Co. Auctioneers is a premier specialty auction house and has been conducting auctions of 20th century art and design since 1987. 


Steeped in the midwestern origins of Prairie School architecture, Toomey & Co. is a leading purveyor of fine art and design. From the Arts & Crafts movement and early art pottery to modern and contemporary art, our dedicated team brings a wealth of experience and attention to every work we handle. Whether a single work or a single-owner sale, we take pride in our focused approach and our dedication to crafting a quality experience for each of our clients and customers.


In the fall of 2022, Toomey & Co. relocated from historic Oak Park to the city of Chicago, sharing office and gallery space with Wright. This move consolidates our consignment, production, and creative efforts, allowing us to serve our clients more effectively from a centrally located, downtown site.

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Rivich Auction, Chicago’s Premier Auction House, is your source for art & design. 

RA conducts on average 20 major auctions annually. From single items to lifelong collections, Rivich Auction has you covered. 


Rivich Auction specializes in a diverse range of auctions catering to various collectors and enthusiasts. The auctions cover areas such as fine art, jewelry, gold, sterling silver, mid-century design, antiques, vintage cars, and pop culture memorabilia.


RA’s commitment to professionalism and integrity ensures that both sellers and buyers have a positive experience in every auction. Whether you are looking to grow your collection or find a new thing to love, RA has you covered. 


Open previews the week prior to auctions.


EVERYONE IS WELCOME.

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Connecting designers, collectors, sellers, and the Southwest Michigan community, the Harbert Antique Mall serves as a true hub for design, discovery, and experience. It is a place where the worlds of collecting and interior design meet- offering a constantly evolving mix of furniture, objects, and decorative arts that reflect both character and craftsmanship.


For those familiar with Rivich Auction, Chicago’s Premier Auction House, known for making hard-to-find, choice design accessible and easy to source, this extension is a natural evolution of that mission. What has long been available through curated auctions now expands into a physical shopping experience.


At Harbert Antique Mall, the doors are open to everyone. Whether you are a designer sourcing for a project, a collector searching for a singular piece, or simply someone drawn to well-made and storied objects, the space offers premium design available for immediate purchase both in-person and online.

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