Orange...OwL Print

Orange...OwL This painting of mine was created by me today in honor of my close dear friend George Hks As if you are my dear George looking at your favorite painting and reflecting in it! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012703778891 In a single copy as an exclusive gift to him As a sign of my deep Love and friendly devotion Impressed via painting by Max Ernst's 1952 "Red Owl" (Detail) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=418307008602755&set=a.111596769273782&type=3 https://mcachicago.org/Collection/Items/1952/Max-Ernst-Red-Owl-1952 Max Ernst, French, b. Germany 1891–1976 Red Owl, 1952 Oil on canvas Canvas: 41 3/8 × 47 7/16 in. (105.1 × 120.5 cm); frame: 50 × 56 1/8 × 1 ¾ in. (127 × 142.6 × 4.4 cm) Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Joseph and Jory Shapiro, 1998.38 Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago ___________ MCA STORIES PORTRAIT OF A COLLECTOR Joseph Randall Shapiro 1983 The MCA's founding director, Joseph Randall Shapiro, discusses the nature of art. https://stories.mcachicago.org/2017/10/10/portrait-of-a-collector/ Art, I think, can be defined and has been defined in philosophical aesthetics as, first you’ll say the creation of forms, expressive of human feeling and made perceptible. And the expression of human consciousness in a single metaphoric image, or the communication of a sense of ordered parts with the one total, all-embracing organic unity. Art deals with the life of feeling, and in a work of art you find the embodiment of a sense of life, a sense of feeling, in some objective form. See, art really is not nature. It’s a transformation nature of the formative mind. And the—I think all art really is a concept that deals primarily with these multifarious rhythms of nature, rhythms of life, that are organic, mental, and intellectual. Really it deals with this interior life, the life of the inward self, which is objectified and where our intuitions about life and death are clarified and illuminated through the expressive form of the work of art. But what brings one to surrealism, I think is a matter of temperament. So we’ve always been predisposed for that which is the more reflective of the inner self. External reality, naturalism, it all becomes very boring to us. We’ve always been inclined towards the irrational, the enigmatic, the ambiguity, which is part of life itself. The surreal is something that we have always identified as part of that internal self. © MCA Chicago ___________ In Memoriam Joseph Shapiro 1904–1996 https://mcachicago.org/About/Who-We-Are/In-Memoriam/Joseph-Shapiro Joe served as the MCA’s president from the time it opened in October 1967 to 1973 and remained active on the board until the end of his life. His enthusiasm for art, especially surrealist art, lives on through the works of art he collected and generously donated to the MCA. © MCA Chicago ___________ Joseph R. Shapiro, 91, Art Museum Founder By Roberta Smith June 18, 1996 https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/18/arts/joseph-r-shapiro-91-art-museum-founder.html About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Joseph R. Shapiro, a prominent art collector and philanthropist who was the founding president of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and an active trustee at the Art Institute of Chicago, died on Sunday at a hospital in Oak Park, Ill. He was 91 and lived in River Forest, Ill. Mr. Shapiro, who made a fortune as a developer, was considered the dean of a group of idiosyncratic and dedicated Chicago art collectors whose holdings, often unusually strong in Surrealist art, rivaled New York's in quality and focus. But he was also an indefatigable proselytizer of the importance and benefits of art. For more than 50 years, he repeatedly organized, served on juries for or lent artworks to exhibitions at nearly every art institution, major and minor, in and around Chicago. He also lectured frequently on art and art collecting and gave many interviews. And he and his wife, Jory, were legendary for being perpetually willing to lead visitors through their Tudor-style home in Oak Park, talking about the works in their vast collection. Mr. Shapiro was especially identified with the Museum of Contemporary Art, which he and several other Chicago collectors, including Robert Mayer and Edwin Bergman, founded in 1966, partly because of dissatisfaction with the Art Institute of Chicago's involvement with contemporary art. Mr. Shapiro served as president of the museum's board for its first eight years and recently donated $1.5 million to its new building, on East Chicago Avenue, which will open to the public on July 2. Selections from the Shapiro collection were exhibited at the museum in 1969. He gave a total of 65 works to the collection, including Matta's "Prime Ordeal" of 1946 and Magritte's "Wonders of Nature" of 1953. He was equally involved with the Art Institute, which he visited as a child and credited with inspiring his love of art. He donated the first of what would eventually be 600 drawings and prints to the institute in 1955, became a trustee in 1974 and was elected a lifetime trustee in 1981. The Art Institute mounted exhibitions of his gifts in 1985 and 1993. Unlock more free articles. Create an account or log in Joseph Randall Shapiro was born in Russia in 1904 and immigrated to Chicago with his family when he was 2 years old. He attended the University of Chicago in the early 1930's, having earned his law degree from De Paul University in 1927. He and his wife began collecting color reproductions of paintings in the late 1930's, papering their house with pictures cut from magazines. Even these were exhibited, at an immensely popular show at the Chicago Public Library in 1943. The Shapiros made their first art purchase -- four works by Francis Chapin, a Chicago painter -- in 1942 and by the 1950's were well on their way to amassing a large international collection. Known for its superb Surrealist material, it included major works by Chagall, Ernst, Klee, Magritte, Miro and Tanguy, as well as extensive groups of prints and drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec and Rouault. The Shapiros also donated works to the Spertus Museum of Judaica and Rosary College in Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Shapiro's wife died in 1993. He is survived by his son, Donn, of Chicago. A version of this article appears in print on June 18, 1996, Section D, Page 23 of the National edition with the headline: Joseph R. Shapiro, 91, Art Museum Founder. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe © 2020 The New York Times Company ___________ Joseph Randall Shapiro and Jory Shapiro papers, 1943-1985 Shapiro, Joseph Randall, 1904-1996 Collector https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/joseph-randall-shapiro-and-jory-shapiro-papers-9547 Overview Collection Information Size: 0.6 Linear feet (on 1 microfilm reel) Summary: Letters, scrapbooks, and printed material documenting the development of the Shapiro's art collection. Correspondence, primarily from dealers, museums, art organizations and artists, includes letters from Enrico Baj, Aaron Bohrod (recommending Ben Shahn as a muralist), George Buehr, Jose Luis Cuevas, Leon Golub, Margo Hoff, Miyoko Ito, Sidney Janis, Ellen Lanyon, Pierre Matisse, Ida Meyer-Chagall (discussing her father's work), Abbott Pattison, Irving Petlin, Abraham Rattner, and Kay Sage Tanguy (discussing her husband's work). Printed material consists of 11 exhibition announcements and catalogs (1952-1984), and clippings (1965-1985). Four scrapbooks (1943-1955) contain clippings, some dealing with the "Art to Live With" program, exhibition catalogs, a letter from Richard Daley (1958), a 3-page typescript "Surrealism Then and Now" by Doris Lane Butler (1958), press releases (1959), and a letter from R. J. Nedved of the Illinois Society of Architects (1967). Biographical/Historical Note Born 1904. Died 1996. Joseph Shapiro began collecting in 1942 and was drawn to works in the Surrealist tradition. While establishing one of the most important art collections in Chicago, Shapiro and his wife Jory enjoyed personal friendships with artists and used their collection to educate and increase public appreciation of modern art in Chicago. Shapiro was a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art and served on its board as President from 1967 until 1974. Provenance Material on reel 3759 (fr. 1-320) donated 1986; and material on fr. 323-569 lent for microfilming 1986 all by Joseph R. Shapiro. ©2020 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution ___________ JOSEPH SHAPIRO; FOUNDED ART MUSEUM Julie Deardorff, Tribune Staff Writer CHICAGO TRIBUNE JUNE 17, 1996 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-06-17-9606170002-story.html Joseph Randall Shapiro, 91, one of Chicago's greatest art collectors and founder of the Museum of Contemporary Art, died Sunday at West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park. "He was as close as we can have in the `90s to a Renaissance man," said Kevin Consey, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art. Mr. Shapiro was the founding president of the museum when it opened its doors in 1967 in an old bakery building. At the time, he was a wealthy developer and attorney and was trustee of the Art Institute. He died before the public opening of the new museum building, which is scheduled for July 2. "It would be hard to imagine the museum existing without him," Consey said. "He was a wise, inspired man full of ideas--business, intellectual and philosophical. He was a rather extraordinary individual." Known for his collection of surrealist masterworks, Mr. Shapiro gave many of his pieces to the museum and to the Art Institute of Chicago. He also gave works to Rosary and Spertus Colleges in Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. In 1992, Mr. Shapiro and his wife, the late Jory, donated 46 works from their collection to the MCA. "Jory and I have long considered the collecting of art a special kind of public trust. Our predisposition invariably has been toward art that engages the mind rather than that which merely delights the eye," said Mr. Shapiro at the time of the donation. In 1942, after a period of collecting color reproductions, the Shapiros bought their first originals--four paintings by Chicago artist Francis Chapin. In the early 1950s, the Shapiros acquired major works by Victor Brauner, Marc Chagall, Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Rene Magritte, Matta, Joan Miro and Yves Tanguy. Mr. Shapiro opened his former home in Oak Park to tour groups who would view his collection, which extended far beyond surrealism. He created the "Art to Live With" program that for more than 30 years has allowed students at the University of Chicago to rent original art works at extremely low prices. A Russian immigrant who came to Chicago at age 2, Mr. Shapiro once said he developed his aesthetic tastes by riding the streetcar from his family's West Side home to the Art Institute. Mr. Shapiro has received numerous awards for his connoisseurship of the visual arts, including the Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award. He served on the board of the MCA, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Arts Club of Chicago. Mr. Shapiro was the author of a column in the MCA's in-house newsletter. "Art is like life," Mr. Shapiro said at a post-ceremony reception for the groundbreaking of the new MCA in December 1993. "You don't learn and grow unless you take chances and risks." Survivors include a son, Donn. Services will be at noon Wednesday at Weinstein Brothers Funeral Home, 111 Skokie Blvd., Wilmette. Copyright © 2020, Chicago Tribune _______________________________________________ Corially, © Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan von Miller Esq. https://about.me/chekanart

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Size:10 W x 8 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 13.25 H x 1.2 D in

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