Toomey & Co. Auctioneers sets auction records for works by Chicago artists
In a stunning collaboration, William Day Gates, who founded the American Terra Cotta & Ceramic Company in Crystal Lake, had a matte green glazed ceramic Teco lamp base topped with a Prairie leaded glass shade by Orlando Giannini that climbed to $93,750.
OAK PARK, IL
.-Toomey & Co. Auctioneers has often found considerable success selling art and design of historic importance by Chicago artists and makers or those with local ties. In its Tradition & Innovation sale on Thursday, December 3, in which just 65 lots combined to realize $1.24 million, a wide range of significant material went to the highest bidders with multiple auction price records set.
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In the most contested political season in recent memory, tensions rose and spilled into the world beyond national television. In the art wing hallway inside the Fine Arts Building, that struggle was at the forefront of a dialogue about politics, vandalism and the nature of art between individual students and faculty alike.
The battle was encapsulated on the Art Department’s wall for student graffiti.
“A lot of the conversation that was happening around the wall both between students and faculty was this kind of back and forth that was happening,” said Samuel Rapien, an assistant professor of visual communication and design. “Certain work was getting defaced although I challenge the term defaced just because the intention of the wall was always to continually adapt and evolve. Things would always have that possibility of getting painted over, but I think some of the stuff that was happening was more retaliatory than anything.