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A Jeweled Winter Forest
Abstract acrylic painting with white swirls and shapes of orange, blue, and yellow. Signed bottom right. UndatedBarbara Aubin (1928-2014) was born in Chicago and studied Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Until her…
Tags: art collection, first floor, paintings
Swans
Sculpture of a continuous curved piece of polished and burnished stainless steel with a double loop effect reminiscent of swimming swans. The piece was commissioned specifically for placement in the Water Court on the Library’s First Floor. Weighing…
Tags: art collection, first floor, on display, sculpture
Fusion I
Abstract oil painting in yellow and orange. Signed bottom right.Modernist abstract painter Morris Barazani (1924-2015) moved to Chicago in the 1950s to join the Chicago Bauhaus movement at the Institute of Design where he worked with Laszlo Maholy…
Tags: art collection, first floor, on display, paintings
Bookman's Bestiary
Signed facsimile print of a poem by Susan Barron in the form of an illuminated English alphabet. The poem interweaves animal names with parts of books, as in,
Cats glare atGiraffes with their dust covered knees. Folios ofElephants and gatherings…
Tags: art collection, not on display, prints
Untitled #32
Drawing of amorphous tall shapes with arched tops with spiked projections. Within the shapes are circular, squiggle, bullet, and star shapes.On original plaque:
Joanne E. BaumannUntitledGift of Joanne E. Baumann
This drawing is not currently on…
Tags: art collection, drawings, not on display
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: The New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile
An authorized full-color, full-size facsimile of the Ellesmere Chaucer, a beautifully illustrated edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s book, The Canterbury Tales.On original plaque:
The Canterbury TalesbyGeoffrey ChaucerThe New Ellesmere Chaucer…
Tags: art collection, books, not on display
Kaddish II
Cast aluminum sculpture. Silver-colored and long, with a central pyramid and two irregular horizontal branches. Undated.Roger Colombik graduated from Niles North High School in 1979 and studied art at Southern Illinois University and was a student of…
Tags: art collection, not on display, sculpture
Primitive woman
Cast steel and bronze sculpture of a woman with a shield and spear. On plaque:
Presented ToThe Skokie LibraryBy Skokie Art GuildPrimitive WomanSculptor--E. Corley1967
The sculpture was given to the Skokie Public Library as a gift from the Skokie Art…
Tags: art collection, sculpture, third floor
Vietnam Peace Suite: Warrior's Dream
Salvador Dalí’s “Vietnam Peace Suite” comprises four colored lithographs, produced in 1973 to celebrate the conclusion of the war in Vietnam.“Warrior’s Dream,” depicts horses with riders against a blue sky; “Peace at Last” depicts two figures with…
Tags: 1970s, art collection, not on display, prints