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William Conger Retrospective

by Thea Liberty Nichols
William Conger at Chicago Cultural Center January 24th, 2009 - March 29th, 2009
Posted 2/2/09

There is a staggering wealth of work in what is William Conger’s first major career retrospective presently on view at the Cultural Center. With over sixty large-scale paintings, and a small suite of preparatory drawings on paper, the exhibition tracks his shifting and evolving styles over the course of his fifty year-long (and running) career.While Conger is recognized as a colossus of abstraction on the Chicago scene, there are referential figurative, architectural and landscape element... [more]