Monkshood Leaves and Poppy Painting

Born in France, educated in New York City. Professor Alain Gavin taught at Chicago State University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since the early seventies a variety of studio classes. His own work in graphite, oils and watercolors, have been exhibited in numerous museums and private galleries including the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, in New York, the Frumkin Gallery, in Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum and the Jewish museum, New York. His paintings are in the corporate collections of the Kemper Insurance Group, the Chase Manhattan Bank and the Chemical Bank.