This was May and I had just started getting on pace to break my single season Cubs Home Game Attendance Record.
Enjoy.
DL
I promised the Art Chicago lady I would give her a review of the show and I was sure it would be a good one.
I loved the diversity of the art. I like a trim, fit, lean show with more good art then a big huge show with too much distracting art.
Not really enough Pop Art for my tastes. Last year or the year before the place was packed with Tom Wesselman pieces who had just died..
Tom Wesselman was a Warhol contemporary who really thrived in the 70's and really all the way until his death like I said a couple of years ago.
I've had several Tom Wesselman prints over the years. I just love his work.
Really sexy and very pop with a humanist touch. He loves to create a scene.
An art teacher once told me that movement in art is always a plus.
Which makes sense to me because I'm not really a big fan of still life's.
Of course it depends on the still life. But as a rule I''m going to go with, that still life's are boring.
I've acquired several pieces locally. I wound up selling them both. Well don't you know the next year or so after I sold one, Tom dies. It turns out that the piece I sold is now worth $25,000.
About 10 times what I sold mine for. The thing is that I made money on the deal. So I really don't have anything to complain about. But I probably should have held on to that one.
Being in the Art Business is a funny thing.
There are all sorts of different types of art dealers.
Art is very subjective after all.
One mans trash is another mans treasure.
Some people like your art and some don't.
Some people like you and some don't.
Some people buy from you and some don't.
Some of the same people buy from you as do they your competitors.
Some of your competitors are cautious allies and some are not.
I’m at 5 Cubs home games so far this season. 29 more to go to break my single season Cubs home game attendance record. Sschgar. I caught two of the games against the Padres. The Cubs won both games. The second game was rained out at the end of the 8th inning.
The grounds crew set the record for bringing out the tarp and putting it away the fastest ever. It was pretty funny. They say a day at Wrigley is like a vacation and I agree for sure.
There’s something about being there that really relaxes me. Whatever else I’ve got going on seems to be put nicely on hold while I’m there. Kind of like any day on the road beats a day in the office.
Well I’m on my way to Georgia tomorrow to work on my Howard Finster Vision House Museum. I’m driving my new used car that I got recently and I sure hope it works out. Nothing quite like testing a car out on a 644 mile one way trip over several mountains. I’m sure it’ll be fine. I’ve got track heads for my gallery rooms down there and another 25 pieces of art I’m donating to my own Museum. It seems like the right thing to do. When you build a Museum you need to fill it with art. There’s no book on building a Museum and a collection to go with it but if there was I’m sure it would say once you build the Museum you also have to fill it with art. I guess I’ll have to put writing the book, How to open a Museum for Dummies, on my list of things to do.
I’ve actually got some exciting news happening with the Howard Finster Vision House Museum but I can’t quite tell it yet. Stay tuned.
I’m super happy to report that I successfully sold my River North Gallery.
I’ve had my Wicker Park Gallery for 17years now and I’ve always thought of myself as a Wicker Park Gallery owner. To me it says that I’m a little more hip and also down to earth.
I wish Jennifer Norback all the best with her new gallery she’s opening in my old space.
I really developed it well and I know she’s going to maximize all of the benefits of the space.
In my Wicker Park Gallery, actually it’s my only Gallery in the State of Illinois, now Georgia is another story, at the DLG we recently re-hung the gallery.
We currently have an exhibit up of 200 works of art. If that's not enough
art for you we have half a dozen books containing photos of another 800
pieces of art for you to choose from.
Just pick out the art you like and I'll go in the back and find the art in
our Art Library. Now doesn't that sound like a winner.
I've been saying for some time and over and over again, that it is my firm
belief that, art collectors are better, more well rounded people.
Also that the children of art collectors grow up to be better, more well
rounded people.
You might also have heard me say the the great artists, collect and of
course that the great collectors rotate their collections.
Not enough room for all of your art, you say? Well then, build an art
rack.
What a great problem that would be to have, I can hear you thinking.
Now this is your golden opportunity. Since our move from our
River North Gallery space. We are a little over flowing with art at the
moment.
Being of course a great collector. I know that I need yet another art rack.
Well, I'm working on it but until then I'm having my most successful sale
ever.
The DLG Buy One Get One Free Sale.
You heard me. Buy one piece of art and get another piece free.
Get it while it lasts. Now that we're a trimmed down and fitter business I
won't be offering sales like this very often.
Less as they say is more. I of course am more of a fan of, more is more.
That's why I own like 1000 pieces of art. Not including my art publishing
archives of Howard Finster prints.
As always feel free to take advantage of our master card, visa acceptance
options.
As well the DLG Payment Plan works very well in tandem.
Pay 25% down and make payments over the next 4 months. No extra charge.
Win. Win.
If you're out of town give a call at 312.863.9045 or email me at david@dlg-gallery.com and I'll ship your art right to
you. No tax for out of state purchases.
That’s it for this time ladies and gentleman.
Thank you very much for your interest.
And on and on it goes.
