CGN's Collectors: A Recap of Collector Interviews

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Oct 8, 2024

The artist Joseph Seigenthaler in his studio

The top floor of Bob Buford’s home is devoted to art. Pictured from left to right are works by Martin Kippenberger, Laura Owens, Peter Halley, and Marc Camille Chaimowicz.

By GINNY VAN ALYEA

CGN has been interviewing art collectors for well over a decade. To date we have profiled over 30 collections in print.

When CGN was founded in 1982, it was created as a resource for collectors and a guide to area gallery openings. Over time CGN has evolved to be a resource for many players in the art world and beyond. After CGN Publisher Ginny Van Alyea took over from founder Natalie van Straaten in 2007, we began to conduct a series of interviews with many art community leaders, from dealers and artists to curators and local collectors. Some collectors have professional lives unaffiliated with the art world, while others see collecting as a natural extension of a profession they love. A few are anonymous. All have art collections that are lovingly built and cared for, and we are grateful for their generosity and candor.

By building a catalog of collection profiles, we aimed to share the range of collecting experiences, practices and focuses, hopefully inspiring others to build their own art collections in their own unique way.

You can read past interviews on chicagogallerynews.com any time, but we wanted to gather our collector profiles in one place and encourage you to revisit each one or read them all for the first time. These collections are proof of Chicago's deep, rich, long collecting history, and CGN's interviews are a means of recording that history for generations to come.

2012

Collector Conversations: Deone Jackman

Collector Profile: Marilyn + Larry Fields

2013

Collector Profile: Anne and Mark Siebert

Collector Profile: An Eye for the Outsider

2014

Collector profile: Eileen and Peter Broido

Collector Profile: Janis Kanter and Tom McCormick

Collector Profile: Linda and Paul Gotskind

2015

Carlos Martinez: A Classic Setting for Eclectic Art