`Arms and Art' embraces the beauty of firearms

Chicago Sun-Times | April 1, 1988| | Copyright

The art of Raymond J. Weilgus, on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, is unlike any I've seen before and although his unusual canvases fascinate me, it's easy to understand how others might dismiss them as decorated instruments of destruction.

That would be unfortunate because Weilgus's exhibition, "Arms and Art," is a display of 27 firearms so elegantly restored, refined and gold-filled with Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs as to raise the otherwise utilitarian handguns to the level of high art.

That's saying a lot when his "blank canvas" might be a Colt Government Model 1911 ...

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