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96-Year Old Evanston Artist's Work Featured at Noyes
Cultural center will display seven decades of work by Peggy Lipschutz.

Seven decades of artwork by Evanston’s own Peggy Lipschutz will be on display at the Noyes Cultural Center through November 2.
The “Evanston Legend: The Art of Peggy Lipschutz” exhibit pays tribute to decades of news events that have inspired the paintings of the 96-year-old artist.
“It’s mostly the events that have happened that inspire, you know, the things that I paint,” Lipschutz said during a recent interview with WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.
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According to the exhibit page on the city of Evanston website, Lipschutz is “a uniquely creative and prolific Evanston, Illinois artist who pioneered the performance art of the “chalk-talk” or the drawing of songs performed live by folk musicians such as Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and Holly Near…
“During a lengthy career, Peggy also produced cartoons and drawings for labor, political and social organizations. Significantly, Peggy also created, and continues to create, sensitive, reflective and thoughtful oil paintings devoted to family, social activism, women and spirituality.”
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