Button Gallery
Drawing
Framed pastel on paper with .5 inch wood frame and 2.5 white mat.
The drawing is of the first Douglas Button Gallery location at 955 W. Center Street. The single-story white building has a red roof and is shaded by two trees. The new gallery's sign is visible by a parked car.
2024.50.02
Pastel
Pastel
Fredrick, Arthur 1939-2024
This drawing — dated '66, next to the artist's signature — depicts the Button Gallery right after it relocated from Chicago’s Gold Coast that same year. Arthur Fredrick's interior design studio occupied part of this building. The site later became the home and B&B of Karen and Herb Tews.
ArtworksArt galleries1960 Gay/LGBTQ+ cultureCommercial businesses
Winthers, Sally
Beatty, Frank 1899-1984
1966
16 in
21 in
Button, W. Russell 1880-1968Button Gallery
11/05/2024
11/05/2024