The Ridge Historical Society
Beverly Art Walk on Saturday
By Carol Flynn
Everyone is gearing up for the 11th Beverly Art Walk on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024! Events will be set up all around Beverly and Morgan Park.
The Ridge Historical Society will be open from 12 noon to 5 p.m. that day, and featured will be:
– Photographer Mati Maldre's collection of photographs of houses and buildings designed by architect H. H. Waterman. Mati will be there in person to demonstrate his Deardorff 4×5/5×7 view camera, which he used to take these photos.
Mati said, "The large format 4×5, 5×7 or 8×10 view cameras are the professional standard for architectural photography because of the clarity of image afforded by the use of large positive transparencies or negatives, utilizing less magnification when printing."
He would know – Mati is a retired Professor of Art/Photography from Chicago State University and has an extensive and impressive bio. He taught photography at the Beverly Arts Center for 35 years. He is on the RHS Board of Directors and chairs the Historic Buildings Committee.
This is an introduction to the new exhibit that RHS is mounting, "Harry Hale Waterman, Architect: Unique in Any Style," which will open for Open House Chicago on October 19 and 20.
In the meantime, visitors can also still catch the current exhibit, "Louise Barwick's Lost Ridge," which shows lovely water color paintings by Miss Barwick, an art teacher in the neighborhood, from around 1900.
– Also at RHS for the Beverly Art Walk will be glass artist Sean Michael Felix, the owner of Illumination Art & Design in Humboldt Park.
Felix creates unique hand crafted architectural art glass, glass signs, and stained glass using 19th century techniques. For the Beverly Art Walk he will exhibit samples of his beautiful decorative work and demonstrate the nearly lost art of applying gold leaf to glass the way it was done by artisans in the Victorian Era.
RHS is located at 10621 S. Seeley Ave., in Chicago, and may be contacted at 773-881-1675 or ridgehistory@hotmail.com.