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Donated to the library by Harry and Diana Hunter in 1986 with the suggestion that it would be hung in the Petty Auditorium.

Located on the west wall of the Petty Auditorium on the First Floor.]]>

Gift in memory of James O. Burke, Andy Frain, and John R. Sobeck. The artist, John R. Sobeck, Jr. (1947-2001), painted under the name, “TUNA.” The Library owns another painting by Sobeck, “Energy."

Located on the east wall in the Petty Auditorium on the First Floor.]]>
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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:
Brian Monaghan
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Bronze
Purchased in honor of
Mary Radmacher
Chief Librarian 1956 – 1985
by
The Kihara Corporation
Cole Taylor Bank
and her friends
This piece was chosen by former Head Librarian, Mary Radmacher, to decorate a meeting room at the Library named in her honor. The sculpture was dedicated on December 7, 1997.

Sculptor Brian Monaghan said the piece “is constructed of silicone bronze sheets welded into a dynamic and fluid form, evoking a restless and energetic nature... I am working with two themes — serenity and dynamic energy.”

Monaghan owns Central Sculpture Works in Chicago and studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. His large-scale steel sculptures can be seen throughout the Chicago area. The Library owns another piece of Monaghan’s sculpture, “Untitled Corten.”

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"Zooples" is the name Peter Max has given to the little squiggles he often includes in his work. This print was added to the collection shortly after the Library’s 2001 renovation. The donor, raised in Skokie, said that when he was in college he remembered seeing only drab, grey walls in the university library when he looked up from his books. Now a Skokie Public Library user, he wanted to give his fellow patrons something interesting to see when they looked up from their books.

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On original plaque:
Ted Gall
View from McCormick
Gift of
Federal-Mogul Corporation
2010
The sculpture was created during the 1970s and was located in the Fel-Pro building on McCormick Boulevard in Skokie for 25 years. The sculpture was donated to the library in 2010 by the Federal Mogul Corporation, the parent company of Fel-Pro Manufacturing. When first installed, the sculpture hung on the outer west wall of the library, but it was damaged in 2012 when vandals attempted to remove copper tubing from the piece. After returning from being repaired by the artist the sculpture was relocated to the interior South Courtyard.

Theodore (Ted) Gall studied at the Art Institute of Chicago 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, “Continued Dialogue.”

Located on the wall in the South Courtyard on the First Floor.]]>
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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 Nagy. After founding the art department at DePaul University, Barazani became the director of the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois’ Chicago Circle Campus, where he remained for 24 years.

Located on the east wall near the southeast corner of the Second Floor.]]>

On plaque:
Elliott Balter
”Swans”
In honor of Hester King
In memory of Armond D. King
made possible by gifts of Armond D. King, Inc.
The King Family
First National Bank of Skokie
Skokie Federal Savings and Loan Association
and a grant from
Illinois Arts Council
Elliott Balter (1926-2006) studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was one of the founders of the Skokie Sculpture Park and he taught art at Niles North High School in Skokie. In 1985, Balter opened his backyard Skokie Sculpture Garden to the public. His work has been exhibited at various locations around the United States and in Paris, Barcelona, and London.

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