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BENEFIT OF ART 2025: TOUR D’ARTISTES

The Benefit of Art 2025: Tour d’Artistes launches from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on September 14 with exclusive studio tours of Highland Park artist Caren Helene along with Deerfield artists Karen Ross and Roslyne Smith. The tours include both viewing and purchase opportunities. Afterwards guests will gather at Genesis Highland Park at 4:30 p.m.

COLLECTOR’S CORNER: ESTEBAN VICENTE, MASTER OF COLLAGE

Esteban Vicente was among the few artists who carried the DNA of European modernism directly into the heart of American Abstract Expressionism. Born in Segovia in 1903 and trained in Madrid, Vicente arrived in New York in the 1930s, bringing with him a nuanced understanding of color, structure, and surface. As one of the first-generation

FROM PRINTS TO PICTURE BOOKS, MURALS, AND MAHJONG

A former Lilly Pulitzer artist begins a new chapter with a children’s book and creative endeavors ranging from murals to mahjong. The magic of Paige Spearin’s fanciful paintings is how they draw you in. There is an immediacy to each one that transforms you from viewer into active participant. Gazing at an image of rambunctious

A WASH IN POSSIBILITY

The paintings of Patricia Markos Dolan are portals to the elemental. The artist’s world is limitless,” observed the great 20th-century photographer Paul Strand. “It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” For Winnetka-based artist Patricia Markos Dolan, that world is framed by

LES HOMMES DE CAILLEBOTTE

The Art Institute of Chicago’s Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World examines the artist’s portrayals of the people in his life in 19th-century France. Gloria Groom has helmed many of the Art Institute of Chicago’s blockbuster exhibitions, including those dedicated to Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne. Now, working with peers at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay

NEXT: LISA KINZELBERG

Local artist, Lisa Kinzelberg’s Cities of the World series honors and celebrates different cities by painting their unique energy and character—what Kinzelberg sees as special about them—based on memories and personal experiences, or on the idea of them. “I love how travel enables us to explore different cultures, create memories with loved ones and new

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