Abstract

Avalanche

Rudolph Weisenborn (1881-1974) studied art in North Dakota and Denver before arriving in Chicago around 1912.

Chrome Green

Edition 137/150. Abstract composition. A red, glowing form, roughly circular, above an irregular patch of green on an olive background.

Number 66

Milton Resnick, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, offered a great deal of innovation, intensity, and commitment to the genre.

The Vision of Ezekiel

Edition 1/10. Based on Ezekiel 1:5-16, the print depicts symbols of the vision of Ezekiel, arranged in rows.

End to End

A silkscreen print by the "father of kinetic art".

Israeli artist Yaacov Agam has been praised for introducing, according to Sayako Aragaki, "the notion of time and movement in art" and challenging "the accepted idea of the fixed image." His pione

Bar Lev Line

This painting by an Israeli artist takes its name from a chain of fortifications built by Israel along the Suez Canal after the 1967 Six-Day War

Yigael Tumarkin was born in 1933 in Dresden, Germany and grew up in Mandate Palestine.

Plus and Minus

This painting by a Chicago artist is an homage to Mondrian’s paintings of the same name.

Vera Klement was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in The Free City of Danzig (today, Gdansk, Poland) in 1929.

Slow Travel Under the Sun

"When I paint I am dreaming. When the dream is over I can’t remember what I dreamt but the picture is there. It is the fruit of the dream."

Friedensreich Hundertwasser was born in Vienna on December 15, 1928 to a Jewish mother and Catholic father.

Abraham’s Wagon…The Stable in Cairo

Now in his ninth decade, the artist Irving Petlin was born in Chicago in 1934 to parents from Eastern Europe and raised in the Wicker Park neighborhood.

In Petlin’s body of work he returns again and again to certain resonant objects and figures, recalled or imagined, in order to see them again from new perspectives and discover alternate meanings.

Illustrations to the Old Testament (Noah and the Dove)

In this series of prints, Chicago-born artist David Bennett depicts biblical subjects with a graphic energy and drama that brings biblical sagas to life.

Born in Chicago in 1941, Bennett went on to attend Harvard University, where he studied English literature and opera.