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| Born:
Las Vegas, New Mexico |
| Living
presently in Chicago, Illinois |
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The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| BFA |
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The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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| 2006 |
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Beyond
Boundaries, Chicago Artists Month October 2006, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2001 |
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Artists in Residence, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2000 |
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Illinois
Arts Council Artists Fellowship Grant |
| 1991 |
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Arts Midwest Fellowship Grant |
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Community
Arts Assistance Program Grant, Dept. of Cultural Affairs of Chicago |
| 1989 |
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Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Grant |
| 1986 |
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Artists in Residence, Paper Press, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1985 |
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Print Commission, Plucked Chicken Press, Evanston, Illinois |
| 1984 |
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The Vielehr Award, "80th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,"
Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1981 |
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Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant |
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| 2006 |
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"Water
(and otherwise)," Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2006 |
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"The
Magpie Chronicles," Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, |
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College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois |
| 2002 |
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"Regeneration,"
Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1999 |
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"New
Works," Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1996 |
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"The
Goddess Series," Shircliff Gallery of Art Vincennes University, Vencennes,
Indiana |
| 1994 |
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"Works
on Paper," Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1992 |
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"The
Goddess Series," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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"Eleanor
Spiess-Ferris: An Artist's Journey," Charles Wustum Museum of Fine
Arts, Racine, Wisconsin |
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"Eleanor
Spiess-Ferris: An Artist's Journey," University of Wisconsin at Green
Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin |
| 1990 |
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"New
Works," Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1989 |
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"Clowns
and Other Tragedies," Works on Paper, Country Side Art Center, Arlington
Heights, Illinois |
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Loyola
University Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
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Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri |
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University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin |
| 1987 |
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"Beamish
Mummery," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1984 |
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"New
Works," van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1982 |
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Sonnenschein Gallery of Durand Institute, Lake Forest College, Lake
Forest, Illinois |
| 1978 |
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Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, Illinois |
| 1976 |
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Illinois Arts Council Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1974 |
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Wieghardt
Gallery, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois |
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| 1993 |
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"Creativity
and the Female Principle," Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois |
| 1981 |
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Paul Waggoner Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (with Linda Kramer) |
| 1977 |
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Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (with Phyllis Bramson) |
| 1975 |
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Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois |
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| 2002 |
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"Ferris
Wheel," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL |
| 2001 |
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"Sextablos,"
The Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon |
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"Sextablos,"
The Rex Gallery, Seattle, Washington |
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"Illinois
Women Artists: The New Millennium," Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois |
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"Illinois
Women Artists: The New Millennium," Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign,
Illinois |
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"Illinois
Women Artists: The New Millennium," Rockford Art Museum, Rockford,
Illinois |
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"Illinois
Women Artists: The New Millennium," Illinois State Museum, Springfield,
Illinois |
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"Faculty
Exhibition 2000," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois |
| 2000 |
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"Sextablos,"
Red Bud Gallery, Houston, Texas |
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"The
Lopsided Grin: Facing the New Century," The Fine Arts Center Galleries,
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio |
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"Illinois
Women Artists: The New Millennium," The Galleries, Illinois State
University Normal, Illinois |
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"Illinois
Women Artists: The New Millennium," Southern Illinois Art Gallery,
Rend Lake, Illinois |
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"Illinois
Women Artists: The New Millennium," The Lakeview Museum of Arts and
Sciences, Peoria, Illinois |
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"Figure
x 5," Adrian College, Department of Art and Design, Adrian, MI |
| 1999 |
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The End is Near - Artists Look at the 20th Century," Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin, Invitational, CATALOG |
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"Illinois
Women Artists: The New Millennium," Illinois Art Gallery / Illinois
State Museum |
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"Faculty
Exhibition 1999," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois |
| 1998 |
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"Dress
Up! Artists Address Clothing and Self Adornment," Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin |
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"Parallel
Visions 2," Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois |
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"Parallel
Visions 2," Suberbian Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, Illinois |
| 1996 |
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"Generations,"
Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
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"Pandora's
Box," Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1995 |
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"Obsession,"
Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
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"Parallel
Visions 2," Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois |
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"Parallel
Visions 2," Suberbian Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, Illinois |
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"Then
and Now," CWCA Northern Illinois Art Museum and Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois |
| 1994 |
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"Drawing
on Her Own," University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin |
| 1993 |
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"Other
Places," Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois |
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"Haunting
Images," University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin |
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"Choice
Impressions," Northern Illinois University Museum Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois |
| 1992 |
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"Face
to Face," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1991 |
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"In
Celebration of Women," Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, Illinois |
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"Distorted
Figuration," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois |
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"Artists
and the American Yard," Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine,
Wisconsin, Invitational, CATALOG |
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"Woven
Spirits," G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, and the Creative
Arts Center, Pontiac, Michigan |
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"Birds,"
Susan Cumming Gallery, Mil Valley, California |
| 1990
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"The
Chicago Show," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois |
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"The
Woolworth Show," The Holestein Park Field-House, Chicago, Illinois |
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"Birds,"
Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconsin |
| 1989
to 1990 |
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"Death,"
State of Illinois Building Gallery and Traveling Exhibition |
| 1989 |
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"The
Very Top: Chicago Women Painters," R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois |
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University Gallery in Baroda, India |
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Sansker Kendra Museum in Ahmedebad, India |
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Islip Art Museum - N.A.W.A. |
| 1988 |
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"New
Art Examined '88," Wm. Engle Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana |
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"That
is What Its All About!," International Exhibition Juried by Lucy Lippard,
Eractor Square Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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"Point
of Contact," Northeastern, Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
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"Looking
Out," Rockford Art Museum Regional, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford,
Illinois |
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"Watercolor
'88," Springfield Arts Museum, Springfield, Mo |
| 1987 |
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"Evanston
and Vicinity," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois (1st Prize) |
| 1986 |
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"Fetish
Art: Obsessive Expressions," Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois.
Curated by Robert Middaugh |
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"New
Horizons in Art," Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago,
Illinois |
| 1985 |
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"Drawings:
81st Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago Illinois, CATALOG |
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"2nd
Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition," Clemson University,
Clemson, South Carolina |
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"65th
Annual Artists Members Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, Represented
by van Straaten Gallery |
| 1984 |
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"80th
Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois, CATALOG |
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"Imagists
of the Eighties," Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana |
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"8th
Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition," Emporia State University,
Emporia, Kansas |
| 1983 |
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"%
of Art," DuPage College, DuPage, Illinois |
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"Women
Make Magic and Mystery," Phyllis Needlman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
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"FoUr
Chicago Artists," WFMT and Chicago Magazine, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1982 |
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"Voices
From the Heartland," Phyllis Needlman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1981 |
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"Galex
XV," Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, Illinois (2nd Prize) |
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"Some
Gerls Exhibition," Printers Row, Chicago, Illinois |
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"Waukesha
Print and Drawing Show," University of Wisconsin, Waukesha, Wisconsin |
| 1980 |
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"4/4,"
ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Juried Exhibition) |
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"New
Horizons in Art," Chicago, Illinois Show," Springfield Illinois |
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"%
for Drawing and Print Exhibition," Eastern Illinois University |
| 1982 |
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"New
Horizons in Art," Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago,
Illinois |
| 1979 |
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"Invitational
Drawing Show." Springfield, Illinois |
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"Women
Painters," Springfield, Illinois |
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"25th
Annual Drawing and Small Sculpture Show," Ball State University, Muncie,
Indiana |
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"Chicago
Drawing," Columbia University Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Invitational) |
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"Pictures
from Chicago," Cuenca, Spin |
| 1978 |
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"Women's'
Selves in Their Art," Lewis Towers Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago,
Illinois |
| 1977 |
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"Figurative
Painters of the Midwest," Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin (CATALOG) |
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"The
Beauty in the Beast," John Michael Cohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
Wisconsin |
| 1976 |
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"Women
Artists, Here and Now," University of Notre Dame, (Invitational CATALOG) |
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"Summer
Scene," Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
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| 1999
to 2001 |
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"Illinois
Women Artists The New Millennium," Travels the State of Illinois |
| 1989
to 1990 |
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"Death,"
Exhibition travels the State of Illinois |
| 1982 |
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Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition |
| 1974 |
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Special Exhibition Through Illinois |
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| 1996- |
Drawing:
space, form, and expression, by Esynr Enstice and Melody Peters.
2nd edition, Textbook published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Copy written
in 1996 |
| 1988- |
"Exploring
Imaginary Subjects," by Stanley Marcus, "Watercolor '88," Published
by American Artist Magazine, Copy written in 1988 |
| 1985- |
A
video, "Eleanor Spiess-Ferris '95," is available at the Harold Washington
Library, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1984- |
Women
as Mythmakers, by E. Lauter, Indiana University Press, Copy written
in 1984 |
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Who's
Who in American Art |
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The
Chicago Art Review |
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Kalamazoo
Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan |
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Sandoz
Corp Protection, Des Plaines, Illinois |
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Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago |
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State
of Illinois Building, Chicago, Illinois |
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Kemper
Group Art Collection, Long Grove, Illinois |
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Film
Media, Chicago, Illinois |
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Eastern
Illinois University |
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College
of DuPage, Illinois Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago,
Illinois |
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Portland
Museum of Fine Art, Portland, Oregon |
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University
Museum of Southern Illinois at Evansville, Evansville, Illinois |
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Wustum
Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconsin |
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