Chicago

His work...comprises an astonishing collective portrait of the city.

-Alex Kotlowitz
Never a City So Real, 2004




MELROSE STREET AT NIGHT
1975
57.5" X " X 42"



ALONG THE NORTH BRANCH CANAL
1979
56" X 48"



ON MAXWELL STREET 1971
2004
40" X 44"




MAXWELL STREET DYING
1972
73" X 91"



ELEVATED TRACKS ACROSS LINCOLN AVENUE
1979
74" X " X 44"
“As the city that Guinan took for his subject matter--the gritty underworlds; the forgotten, neglected, invisible, and despised; the neighborhood architecture and cityscape that made Chicago what it once was as a major and original American city--is destroyed, ‘gentrified,’ replaced, and erased, Guinan’s work forms a documentary history and portrait no less stirring than that of the Parisian demi-mondes as chronicled and interpreted by Toulouse-Lautrec.”
—Andrew Patner - Robert Guinan: Beyond Biography, Beyond "Story"

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