Anton c laps artistic labels

Oak Park, IL (May 12, 2006) - “These are really beautiful,” said Joel Dryer, art collector and director of the Illinois Historic Art Project, as he viewed the paintings by the late Chicago artist Anthony Claps whose treasures have not been seen for 42 years.

Anton c laps artistic labels

In his seventy years, from 1894 to 1964, Anthony Claps produced hundreds of works of art and sold many. He studied at New York's Roycroft Campus, the Art Institute of Chicago and with abstract artist, Hans Hoffman.

In the last two years, Claps family members have made a concerted effort to find and document all of the known paintings of their prolific patriarch.

In a painstaking but highly rewarding process, they have identified over 250 paintings, and a dozen samples of his leathercraft work, in Illinois, Florida, California and other states. One astonishing find was twenty-five orphaned paintings in the crawlspace of a relative's home.

Most were in excellent condition and many will be in