Thomas H. Kapsalis

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Thomas H. Kapsalis, Cafe America, 2005, oil and sand on canvas, 32 x 26 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Stripes, 2014, acrylic on canvas board, 19 x 15 inches, orientation variable. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Street Scene, 2008, oil on canvas, 50 x 30 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Family, 2000/2020, wood and acrylic, 22 1/2 x 9 x 6 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Two Forms, 2000, oil and sand on masonite and wood, 29 1/4 x 25 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Construction, 1999, wood, 15 x 8 3/4 x 6 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Uplifting, 1998, oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, In Transition, 1997, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Duo, 1994, oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, The Box, 1993, oil on canvas, 22 x 28 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, The Doorway, 1991, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Plan, 1988, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Squares in a Field, 1987, oil on canvas, 23 x 17 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Still Life and Cloth, 1984, oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Unit Cubes, 1983, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Cells, 1980, oil on canvas board, 15 x 12 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Untitled (Point, Line, and Plane), 1977, oil on canvas, 50 x 50 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Chart 2, 1977, oil on canvas, 20 x 10 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Chart 4, 1977, oil on canvas, 20 x 10 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Table in a Box, 1973, oil on canvas, 12 x 9 3/4 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Three Cubes, 1971, oil on canvas board, 30 x 22 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Heads, 1970, oil on canvas board, 27 x 20 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Portraits, 1968, oil on canvas board, 28 x 22 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Three Sounds, 1964, brazed stainless steel and copper, 21 x 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Black and White Etc., 1961, oil on canvas, 20 x 22 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Lake and Wabash, 1960, oil on canvas, 24 x 22 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Danger Ahead, 1959, oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Animal, 1957, cast bronze, 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Fish and Cube, 1947/1952, ceramic, wood, and brass, 24 1/2 x 8 x 7 inches.

Thomas H. Kapsalis, Nocturne, 1949, oil on canvas, 8 x 15 inches. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman

BIO

1925-2022

One of Chicago’s great abstractionists, painter Thomas H. Kapsalis has been an important artist and educator since the late ’40s, when he graduated from the School of the Art Institute. A prisoner of war in Germany, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, Kapsalis returned to continue his pursuit of art-making, eventually returning to Germany in the early ’50s on a Fullbright-Hays Fellowship to study with Willi Baumeister. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute since 1954, and his work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. Among the honors bestowed upon Kapsalis are Huntington Harford Foundation Grants (1956, 1959); Robert Rice Jenkins Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago (1956); Pauline Palmer Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, AIC (1960); Mr. & Mrs. Jule F. Brower Prize, Chicago & Vicinity Exhibition, AIC (1969).

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