The participating artists were: Nicholas Africano, Deborah Barrett, Bennett Bean, Mary Bero, Nancy Bowen, Christopher Brown, John Buck, Lou Cabeen, Max King Cap, Jan Carmichael, Sally Chandler, Antonia Contro, Lesley Dill, Rafael Ferrer, Julia Fish, Tony Fitzpatrick, Nancy Fried, Leon Golub, April Gornik, Harmony Hammond, Don Ed Hardy, Richard Hull, Richard Hunt, Susan King, Joyce Kozloff, Ellen Lanyon, Li Lin Lee, Riva Lehrer, Judy Linhares, Jim Lutes, Kenna Moser, Mr. Imagination, Audrey Niffenegger, Gladys Nilsson, Ed Paschke, Neraldo de la Paz, Howardena Pindell, Katherine Porter, Janis Provisor, Beth Reisman, Anne Siems, Hollis Sigler (three cards), Nicholas Sistler, T.L. Solien, Nancy Spero, Fred Stonehouse, Inez Storer, Ken Warneke, Leslie Wayne, Margaret Wharton, William Wiley, Marian Winsryg, Betty Woodman, and Lynn Zetzman.

The project that culminated in this poster was curated by the late artist and feminist Hollis Sigler. Hollis Sigler was born in Gary, Indiana in 1948 and studied in Florence before receiving an MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1985, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which went into remission after treatment. In 1993 the cancer returned. For her final professional project, Sigler asked artists to each design a playing card or joker, the resulting “deck” to be laid out on a poster. The idea appealed to her because “getting cancer is the same as a game of chance… Who gets it or doesn’t is chance — which is why the idea of playing cards is an appropriate organizing theme.” (Chicago Tribune Magazine, November 16, 1997)

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Barbara Aubin (1928-2014) was born in Chicago and studied Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Until her retirement in 1991, Aubin was a professor at Chicago State University. She received fellowships that enabled her to travel abroad, including a Fulbright Fellowship award in 1958. She has received many awards and her work has been exhibited internationally. In 2002, the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art held a retrospective of Aubin’s work.

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Originally from Hong Kong, Kwok Wai Lau (1930-2021) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the International Art School in Hong Kong. Through the 1960s, he taught at the Art Institute, the Hyde Park Art Center, and the North Shore Art League, later moving to and teaching in southern California.

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Cats glare at
Giraffes with their dust covered knees. Folios of
Elephants and gatherings of
Frogs distract us from the gutter with foxed, dog-eared
Dogs… Includes drawings of a tiger, a zebra losing its stripes, an elephant, a giraffe, kangaroo, bluejay, and several books.

Poem and illustration are copyrighted 1998. The piece was printed by The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont and is signed below the artist’s name near the bottom of the piece.

The print was a gift from Sid Block in 2003.

Originally from the Chicago area, Susan Barron studied music and chemistry and worked for many years as a chemist in New York City. She has created several art books, most notably, the eleven-volume, Labyrinth of Time, which was premiered at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Barron’s drawings, collages, etchings, books, and photographs have been exhibited internationally and can be found in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Newberry Library in Chicago, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

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The Canterbury Tales.

On original plaque:
The Canterbury Tales
by
Geoffrey Chaucer
The New Ellesmere Chaucer Facsimile
Gift of Yusuke Kihara
This is copy number 100
The original manuscript is in the collection of the Huntington Library of San Marino, CA, and includes 23 portraits of the storytellers, and 71 decorated pages. The facsimile was published in an edition of 250, was edited by Daniel Woodward and Martin Stevens, and printed by Yushodo Co, Ltd, in Tokyo, Japan.

This copy was given to the library in 2001 by friend of the library, Yusuke Kihara.

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LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago where he later taught for ten years. He moved to New York City and had his first one-man show in 1963. He is known primarily for his colorful paintings of athletes, sporting events, and celebrities. His works are in museums and private collections all over the world.

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Hilda Rubin Pierce was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, but left for England in 1938, when Hitler took over Austria. She later moved to Chicago and was described, in a 1958 Chicago Tribune article as a “young Chicago artist of great promise.” She exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and taught art. She later wrote a memoir entitled, Hilda: a True Story of Terror, Tears, and Triumph. Pierce's oral history has been recorded by the University of Santa Cruz Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive online. The Library owns another painting by Rubin, “Walled City.”

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On original plaque:
Ted Gall
Continued Dialog
Plate aluminum and copper 1981
Gift of
Fel-Pro Manufacturing Corporation
Theodore (Ted) Gall studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the American Academy of Art and worked for twenty years as the artist in residence at Fel-Pro, an automotive gasket manufacturer in Skokie before moving to California. The Library owns another of his sculptures, “View from McCormick.”

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On original plaque:
Tuna
ENERGY
acrylic on canvas
Gift of the Family
in memory of Dr. Romuald Walczyk
The artist, John R. Sobeck, Jr. (1947-2001) painted under the name, “TUNA.” The Library owns another painting by Sobeck, “Petrified Journey One Thru Ten,” which is in the Petty Auditorium on the First Floor.

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