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by BRIAN NADIG
Several storefronts in the Edgebrook-Sauganash area have been decorated with art displays that pay tribute to Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning.
The citywide “Project Windows” design contest is sponsored annually by the Art Institute of Chicago, which uses it to promote summer exhibitions at the museum. Residents can vote for favorite displays at https://www.artic.edu/project-windows-2026-a-celebration-of-abstract-art
The 39th Ward, where Arts Alive Chicago president Cyd Smillie has had winning displays in each of the last two contests, has six displays this summer.
One of her 2026 entries is sponsored by the Pulaski Elston Business Association and is posted at a storefront at 4143 W. Lawrence Ave. The display pays homage to the brush work found in de Kooning’s drawings, she said. Her other work is at Peoples Gas at 4025 W. Peterson Ave.
Other entries in the 39th Ward can be found at the Edgebrook Library at 5331 W. Devon Ave. by Jenny Reynolds, Lincoln Reynolds, Finn Reynolds, Christine Koi-Amoah, and Jeannine Tiesch-Ramirez; at the Edgebrook-Sauganash Chamber of Commerce window display at 4754 W. Peterson Ave. by Alison Meaney; at Northeastern Illinois University at 3416 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. by art and design students, and at Superdawg Drive-in, 6363 N. Milwaukee Ave. by Eric Craig.
The location of other Northwest Side displays include Tesserae Studios at 5344-46 W. Devon Ave. by Benjamin J. Durst; and the Independence Library at 4024 N. Elston Ave. by library patrons.
The “Willem de Kooning Drawing” exhibition at the Art Institute features more than 200 of his artworks, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints. Born in 1904, he left the Netherlands in 1926 and came to the United States, passing away in 1997.
The exhibition runs through Sunday, Sept. 20.
The art museum offers the following description of his works:
“Ambiguity would become a distinguishing feature of de Kooning’s practice, as his work increasingly dissolved the boundaries between representation and abstraction, male and female figures, ‘high’ and ‘low’ art forms, and, in particular, the disciplines of drawing and painting.”
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