Featured Collection
Angela McElwain: Chicago Artist, Author & Avid Collector
Chicago based artist and author Angela McElwain invites us into her personal creative collective. McElwain’s collection features work from her dear friend, teacher and mentor, Lenore Szesko and her husband Robert Szesko. Lenore was an award winning and nationally recognized printmaker and her husband Robert was a brilliant self taught photographer.
As a Pre-Columbian and African Tribal scholar, Lenore had an extensive collection of artifacts from around the globe with a special interest in Mayan Culture. The McElwain collection features many tribal antiquities collected by her dear friends as they traveled and studied.
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Scott Addis Large-Scale Abstract Landscape Oil Painting
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Landscape Oil Painting of Countryside Estate, Late 20th Century
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Vintage and Antique Glass Beaded Sautoir Flapper Necklaces
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Tricia Bass Oil Painting of Dog "Bella's Daisies"
McElwain’s personal work focuses on abstract painting and assemblages, much of her work can be described as refined chaos. Included among her work in this collection is, “Detourner Le Bebe” which was exhibited in a one woman show at ARC Gallery, Chicago, in 2017.
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Veronica Beard Single-Button Blazer
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Replica Antique Style Telephones
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Offset Lithograph After Guy Coheleach "Snowy Egret"
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Men's Filson Quilted Jacket, L.L. Bean Fishing Vest, Orvis Rain Jacket, and More
The extensive collection also includes pieces close to her heart, like the beautiful Vega Vegaphone Deluxe Tenor Banjo which was played by McElwain’s great uncle Angel Rasmussen, for whom she was named. Rasmussen played in the band Mr. B and His Lounge Lizards on stage in the early part of the twentieth century.
McElwain continues to create in Chicago, just publishing the graphic novel “Dead Cops Detective Bureau”, Chapter 1, “The Brothers Grim” as co-author and artist on the project.
Dig into this robust, interesting and well-rounded collection from a talented group.
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Kathleen Quinn Oil Painting After Carol Rowan of a Still Life with Tulips, 2003
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Irma Pfannmoeller Portrait Oil Painting of Happy Chandler
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Marc Chagall Color Lithograph Front Cover From "Verve," 1956
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Chippendale Revival Oak and Lattice-Front Display Cabinet, Early to Mid 20th C
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Louis Vuitton Alma Two-Way Handbag in Red Monogram Vernis
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Offset Lithograph After John Butler "Ring True I"
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Illustrated "Every Boy's Book of Hobbies" by Cecil H. Bullivant, Early 20th C.
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Sterling Diamond Inside-Out Oval Hoop Earrings
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Sparky Anderson and George Foster Signed Rawlings Official MLB Baseballs
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Leif Janek Abstract Acrylic Painting, 21st Century
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Faux Pearl and Rhinestone Ring
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