54th Annual Cooks' Tour sponsored by The Auxiliary of the Woman's Board of Rush University Medical Center

 

Save the date for September 17, 2025 for the RUSH Hospital Auxiliary Cooks' Tour

Cooks' Tour is a home design and style celebration established in 1971 as a kitchen tour and has evolved over the 54 years to include the full home, gardens and grounds of some of the most inspiring homes along the North Shore. Cooks' Tour takes place on the 3rd Wednesday every September and opens the doors to 4 - 5 homes for community members, leading Chicago-area designers, architects, builders, landscape architects and home experience enthusiasts. The Auxiliary of the Woman's Board works behind the scenes with design teams, florists and home design retailers to emphasize and showcase exceptional design and decor throughout each home on the day of the tour. Guests have an opportunity to participate in a raffle of luxury items and local downtown Winnetka french-bistro favorite, Pomeroy, opens exclusively for a post-tour luncheon to cap the perfect day. All proceeds from the Annual Cooks' Tour support The Woman's Board Endowed Fund for Research and Clinical Trials at Rush University Medical Center. The endowed fund will propel groundbreaking medical research along the continuum, including innovative, early stage pilot research, promising clinical trials to test breakthrough therapies, and large scale studies to set new standards for care.

The event is  9:30 am-1:30 pm

CityBound - Prints and Notecards at Storm Print City, Evanston

We resume business in Evanston at Storm Print City, 2601 Prairie Avenue at the northeast corner of Central Street and Prairie

Thursdays - Saturdays, 11am - 5pm

November 20 - 23 and November 29 - 30 (open Thanksgiving eve, closed Thanksgiving)

December 12 - 14 and December 19 - 21

My notecards and prints will be on sale 

           Chicago (set of 4) 

Skyline the Lake and Lincoln Park  

1060 West Addison Wrigley Field

Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive ...Waiting for the light 

The Tribune Tower and Wrigley Building at Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive

             

Dennis O'Malley Re-opening on Central Street Nov 9th

We begin business in Evanston at the northeast corner of Central Street and Prairie at 2601 Prairie.

Store hours Thursday, November 9th through Sunday, December 10th

The product will be my etchings of Chicago and Evanston and note cards of the City. Shown here are popular hand colored etchings as examples of city scenes.

My newest note card set 4 is shown here, Chicago in Winter:

Grand Reopening Reception is scheduled for 

Friday November 17th from 5-7

            The Charles M. Harper Center

      University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

           9" x 12" Aquatint Etching

  plate 52

Chicago 

The White Palace Grille

Roosevelt and Canal Streets

8" x 10" Aquatint Etching with hand water coloring

plate 56

Chicago

      The Waterworks and the Looking Glass Theater

6" x 8" Aquatint etching with hand coloring

plate 100

            

Chicago 

 North Avenue Beach and the Boat House

7.5" x 10.5" Etching with hand coloring

plate 138

Chicago 

Pizzeria Uno and Pizzeria Due

 Addison and Sheffield from the "L"

Home of the Chicago Cubs

"Attention....attention please....have your pencils.... and score cards

ready.....for the correct lineups for today's ballgame."

10" x 11" Aquatint etching with hand coloring

Plate 28

                                  

                                                                                                                 

Chicago US Cellular Field

Home of the Chicago White Sox

6.5" x 8.5" Aquatint Etching

      Plate 118                

                                      

       Chicago China Town

9" x 10" Aquatint etching with hand coloring

Plate 154 

Pitchers and Catchers Report & Evanston Made Art Group

February 2023 Major League Baseball begins now .....with the famous announcement that Pitchers and Catchers will begin Spring training and their respecting club's facilities.

Cub's Park Etching 

A view into the park from the "L" at Addison Street from my etching.

Home of the Chicago White Sox 

 Guaranteed Rate Field at 35th and Shields

I am also featured at the Evanston Made gallery

Print and Print Making Group Show & Shop
Now through February 26 at 1100 Florence!

December 2022 What's Happening? Lemme tell ya

There are two locations for the display and sale of my art.  

My first Pop-Up Shop in Evanston will open Thursday, December 1 at noon and run until December 31. December Hours are scheduled for Tuesday - Saturday, 11am to 5 pm and Sunday 12 noon to 4pm

Prairie Avenue Gallery  2601 Prairie Avenue at Central Street.

Chicago and Evanston scenes will be for sale

• Etchings framed and unframed
• Pen and Ink watercolors
• Note Cards with my views of the city

The next location that will display my art of the city is The International Small Print Show at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative in Lincoln Square.  This annual event is celebrating the 37th year hosting fine small etchings and print art from artists from all over the world.

My art  includes Prints of Chicago and Note Cards all priced to sell.

CPC is located at 4912 North Western Avenue  and is open daily noon-5 pm until Christmas.

Now selling at BUDDY

Buddy is a shop, a hub for making connections between friends we have and those we have yet to meet. We are committed to giving artists and small manufacturers in Chicago a place to showcase and sell their goods and artworks to a vast audience of Chicagoans and visitors at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Take a look at the unique items they offer here. 

I'm thrilled to say that my notecards are for sale there, too. 

March 2022 Welcome to my 2022 Blog!

Chicago Major League Baseball has the greenlight to begin Spring Training at their March camps.  Playing will begin in early April for the White Sox and Cubs.

I have been active these last nine months at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative and at home with pen and ink and watercolors, preparing new work, some of which I will share with you.

These two etchings represent the little known park on the Chicago River at 444 West Lake Street.  The River Point Park contains the recent contribution of the art of Santiago Calatrava.

                                                        

                                      Calatrava's Constellation

                                          River Point Park

                                              Chicago

                                             Etching 182

                                              with hand coloring

                                               8.5" x 9.5"

                                                                          

                                Constellation by Calatrava

                                       in River Point Park  

                                         Chicago   

                                   Aquatint Etching 180 with hand coloring

                                            11" x 8.5"

Santiago Calatrava (born in 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter.

The sculpture Constellation 2019-2020 is in River Point Park on the river at 444 West Lake Street.

Major League Baseball will start in April and the full season of 162 games will contribute to the nation's major pass time.

Four of my watercolored Evanston scenes are:  Hecky's, Mustard's Diner on Central Street, the Alice Millar Chapel on Sheridan Rd and Chicago Avenue, The Grosse Point Lighthouse on Sheridan Rd.

Hecky's

"it's the sauce"

Evanston

7" x 10"

Watercolor

Mustard's Last Stand on Central Street

Evanston

6.5" x 11"

Watercolor

Alice Millar Chapel 

Evanston

8.5" x 7"

Watercolor

Grosse Point  Lighthouse

Green Bay Road

Evanston

7.5" x 6.5"

Watercolor

Baseball has returned to the Sports page.  These a a few of my Ball Park Etchings:

                                            

"This is Wrigley Field"

with the Pat Pieper quote

aquatint etching with hand coloring

plate 159   8" x 13"

                                    Addison and Sheffield from  the "L"

                                           with Pat Pieper quote

                                     aquatint etching with hand coloring    

                                                 plate 28

                                               7" x 9"

                                The Home of the Chicago White Sox 

                                aquatint etching with hand coloring

                                       plate 163  9" x 11"