21 East Gallery

08/16/2026

Chicago outsider artist masterpiece. Mixed media painting with prints on canvas or board in a commercial window panel with glass also painted. Possibly an early Robert Johnson. The transportation scene is contrasted with an elaborate inner scenes depicting painted figures, hearts, houses, a painted Matisse print, and painted valentines.

08/02/2026

Patrick Hughes

Color Screenprint on thick paper
30 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches
Edition lower Left "A/P 8/10" (Artist Proof)
Titled at center "Sundown Burst"
Signed lower right  "Patrick Hughes 79"
Rare limited edition artist proof.
Inverted variant and homage to Marko Palatin's untitled oil painting as included for comparison here. 
Previously Framed professionally behind glass.
Excellent condition with minor blemishes to paper edges, tape remnants, and matte halo as pictured.
Provenance:  Private Chicagoland Collection

07/30/2026

Incredible shorts from the 1960s/70s...Chicagoland...personal collection

07/20/2026

Three stunning jug covers from the collection of artist and collector Joseph Cavalier who attended the Art Institute of Chicago

07/19/2026

These brave men didn't need more testosterone Pete Hegseth

A rare photo album belonging to Max or Everett Powell, WW2 pilots f...

07/19/2026

07/16/2026

1860s - 1870s wood marquetry jewelry, sewing, and/or keepsake box

06/19/2026

Nov. 1965 Femlin cartoon illustration for Pl***oy by Leroy Neiman...6 1/2 x 9 inches on larger backing

06/16/2026

ANDY WARHOL

1928 - 1987

MARILYN (ANNOUNCEMENT)

Offset lithograph printed in colors, 1981, from the edition of 500 of which 150 were signed, on wove paper, with text printed on the reverse, printed by Colour Editions, Inc., published by Castelli Graphics, New York, as an announcement for their exhibition 'Warhol: A Print Retrospective 1963 - 1981' in New York, November 21 - December 22, 1981, unframed

12 x 12 in

06/13/2026

Recently acquired a large artist portfolio of David K. Nelson, Jr. which includes the painting on left, who also painted the controversial Mirth and Girth painting. Mirth & Girth is a portrait painting by School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) student David K. Nelson, Jr., depicting the popular late African-American mayor of Chicago Harold Washington wearing only a bra, G-string, garter belt and stockings.[2] After a brief showing at a May 11, 1988 private student exhibition in the Art Institute, angry African-American aldermen, including Ald. Allan Streeter, Ald. Bobby Rush and Ald. Dorothy Tillman, arrived with Chicago Police Department officers and confiscated the painting, triggering a First Amendment and race relations crisis and a civil lawsuit.