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The Bean Art Gallery featuring original oil paintings by William Gram. Updated June 2008. Most of Bill's paintings are painted plein air (onsite). In Door County, Bill is represented in season at The Potter's Wheel Gallery, and year around at Great Northern by Design at The Settlement Shop, Fish Creek. The Millennium Park page focuses on paintings of the Bean, officially named Cloud Gate, and the Pritzker Pavilion a Frank Gehry creation. See the new Dance page featuring ballet paintings of scenes inspired by Chicago ballet companies and Russian companies such as the Bolshoi.
Over 25 new paintings have been added to the website in 2008. Bill's most recent painting is Door County 4th on this page and the landscape page.
The painting of Wrigley Field on the cityscape page was done during the Cubs Oct 6, 2007 playoff. It represents a new technique that Bill has dubbed guerrilla plein air. It involves getting right into the scene and painting, instead of painting from a distance. The crowd around him seemed to enjoy watching the process. One photographer said that watching Bill paint was like watching Leroy Neiman work. See the photo of Bill painting on the Cityscape page.
News from The Bean Art Gallery 2008: Nine of Bill's Millennium Park Paintings are currently exhibited at Penny's, 950 Diversey in Chicago. Bill had 3 paintings in the Plein Air Painters of Chicago show at the Palette & Chisel, 1012 Dearborn, Chicago April 3-13. See article on this group in Feb 08 American Artist magazine and the upcoming program on Channel 11 Chicago Today. Oct 07. June Fish Creek accepted into Miller Art Museum's Juried Exhibition. July 07. Portuguese Silver , Chicago Ballet, accepted into Hardy Gallery's Juried Exhibition.