the link for about 5 days http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-thisweek/diversions/sc<http://wwwpioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-thisweek/diversions/sc> corrrect for dups on the url use only info within the < > ----- Original Message ----- From: .... valentine53179<mailto:valentine53179@gmail.com> To: IL-COOK-SCHAUMBURG-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IL-COOK-SCHAUMBURG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:41 PM Subject: [ILckSCH] THE Sea of Galway Martyl Suzannne Schweig Langsdorf The Schaumburg Township District Library purchased "The Sea of Galway" on eBay, to add to its growing art collection. The piece will be officially unveiled Monday evening. Painting finds its way home BY MYRNA PETLICKI CONTRIBUTOR Schaumburg Review A painting by world-renowned Schaumburg artist Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf -- known professionally as Martyl -- has found its way back to that suburb in a surprising way. The Schaumburg Township District LiAbrary purchased "The Sea of Galway" on eBay, to add to its growing art collection. The piece will be officially unveiled Monday evening. "I would like to buy a number of paintings by this artist since she spent most of her life here in Schaumburg," said library director Michael Madden. "It's just that most of them are kind of expensive. I tried to buy another one that she did in the 1940s, but I wasn't successful in the bidding. I'm hoping over time we can acquire four, five or six that would show her artistic development." Martyl laughed as she described her "astonishment" at the library's latest acquisition. "The Sea of Galway," which she painted in 1963, was originally owned by someone in La Jolla, California. "Apparently the museum in La Jolla had an art rental program and it was in that for awhile, and then someone bought it out of that museum," Martyl said. A memorable time The work, primarily in subdued gray, blue and green pastel shades, is an evocative landscape with an abstract quality. It was created during a memorable time in the artist's life. Martyl lived in the United Kingdom for a year-and-a-half in the 1960s. During that time she took a trip from Dublin to Galway, which inspired a number of paintings. "Ireland really is the Emerald Isle -- it's staggeringly green," she said. "It was inspiring in its color and in the sea there." The work was dirty when it arrived at the library, so Martyl volunteered to restore it. "It's always better that an artist restores his own work," she explained. Her method was to clean a tiny portion of the painting at a time with a cotton swab and distilled water. She also restored the period, gold leaf frame. Sense of place Martyl has been an artist since childhood, inspired by her mother, artist Aimee Schweig. Known for her landscape work, Martyl also does portraits on commission. "It's my respect for nature that seems to come through," Martyl said. "What some critics have always said -- and I agree -- is that I have a sense of place. In other words, if I do Ireland, it's not going to be Eastern Turkey." The widely-traveled artist knows both of those places well. In 1979, she drew and painted for several months at an archeological excavation in Eastern Turkey for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Her adventures have also included serving as an artist-in-residence for Washington University in the 1960s on a ship that sailed to the northern islands of Greece. She also worked in Egypt in 1986 at the request of the Brooklyn Museum. Creating art is "a way of life" for her, Martyl said. "If I'm away from it too long, I get really cranky. I'd like to keep on doing what I'm doing the best I can, which apparently is pretty good." She laughingly added, "I don't have any false modesty anymore!" 'The Sea of Galway' unveiling 7 p.m. Monday New Books and Fiction Room, Schaumburg Township District Library, 130 S. Roselle Rd. Free, refreshments will be served (847) 985-4000 ==== IL-COOK-SCHAUMBURG Mailing List ==== _____________________________ To post: IL-COOK-SCHAUMBURG-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IL-COOK-SCHAUMBURG-L@rootsweb.com> To Search: go to rootsweb.com, then to interactive search then enter in il-cook-schaumburg ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/il-cook-schaumburg<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/il-cook-schaumburg> . Unsubscribe at IL-COOK-SCHAUMBURG-L-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:IL-COOK-SCHAUMBURG-L-request@rootsweb.com> or -D If there is a system problem and you cannot get to valentine, go here: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi<http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi> We are a list2 list.... SEE ALSO: il-cook-elkgrove il-cook-palatine fpsah60194@hotmail.com<mailto:fpsah60194@hotmail.com> ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx>