documentary on artists by La Grange Park man will air on WTTW

La Grange Park filmmaker Chris Olsen created a documentary about what motivates artists who are living without much money. See Suburban Life (Joe Sinopoli).

The artists will explain what moves them in Olsen’s documentary film “The Artsiders,” which will air at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday on WTTW-Ch. 11.

La Grange Park woman hoardes artist's work for decades

An elderly La Grange Park woman had a bunch of artwork by Alfred Juergens. See Chicago Tribune (Ofelia Casillas).

By the time they had an expert look at them, they had collected 85 watercolors, sketches, and oils on canvas and wood, all by American impressionist Alfred Juergens -- an unprecedented and unexpected collection with a value that would start, conservatively, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars....

"One of the issues has been, there haven't been many important Juergens paintings that surface for sale. If 70 have been in one spot for all these years, that would explain why," [Richard] Norton said. [Norton directs an art gallery specializing in Juergens period.]