The Francis and June Spiezer Collection | July 17 - September 27, 2009

The Francis and June Spiezer Collection celebrates this important gift to the RAM Permanent Collection by longtime promoters of the Chicago art scene, the late Francis Spiezer and his widow, June. Promised to RAM over 15 years, the collection is comprised of more than 200 objects in two main focus areas – contemporary studio glass and regional contemporary art.

Representative of more than 30 years of Chicago art, the Spiezers immersed themselves in the lives of regional artists and the local gallery scene. A diversity of media, style and subject matter is represented in the collection, which is rich in paintings, prints, sculpture, and glass.

The collection includes work by Nicholas Africano, Stephen Warde Anderson, Phyllis Bramson, Roger Brown, KeKe Cribbs, Spencer Dornitzer, Mark Sumner Forth, Anne Farley Gaines, Jesse Hickman, Frances and Michael Higgins, John Kearney, Alan Lerner, Nina Levy, John Littleton and Katherine Vogel, Ben Mahmoud, Richard Marquis, James Mesple, Jacqueline Moses, Joel Philip Myers, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, John Fergus Nygren, Ed Paschke, Lorraine Peltz, John Phillips, Daniel Ramirez, Scott Reeder, David Russick, Hollis Sigler, Lino Tagliapietra, Janusz Walentynowicz, Ray Yoshida, and Toots Zynsky.

Exhibition curated by RAM Curator Patty Rhea.