Portfolio: John N. Chester Estate Fund Awards
John Needels Chester (Groveport, OH 1864–1955 Urbana, IL), graduated from University of Illinois 1891 with a degree in engineering, earned his professional degree in civil engineering in 1909 and his master's from UIUC in 1911. After his career as an engineer, he served as the director of the University of Illinois Foundation. Subsequent to his death he donated papers and items to the university, as well as setting up an endowment to purchase art for University of Illinois. These artworks were purchased with awarded Estate Funds.
Allegory of the plight of the Netherlands at the beginning of the year 1672, (De Worstelende Maagd, Tot Bescherming van hare Vryheyt), 1672
Arlequin sur l'Hyppogryphe a la Croisade Lojoliste. Armée van de Heylige Ligue voor der Jesuiten Monarchy
![Image of Batavia Attacked [Batavie aangerand... De Fabel van Apollo en Dafne... De Fabel van Neptunus en Koronis...]](/Media/Previews/2010s/2019/2019-7-8_p1_2021.png)
Battle on the Sound on November 8, 1658 (Zee Slagh inde Sont Op den 8. November 1658)
- Alphonse Mucha [1]
- Andy Warhol [2]
- Armin Landeck [1]
- Barnett Newman [1]
- Brice Marden [1]
- Claes Jansz. Visscher [5]
- Claes Oldenburg [1]
- Edward Hopper [1]
- Ellsworth Kelly [1]
- Gérard de Lairesse [1]
- Hyman Bloom [1]
- Isabel Bishop [1]
- Jackson Pollock [6]
- James Rosenquist [1]
- Jan Luyken [1]
- Jasper Johns [1]
- Jim Dine [1]
- Jim Nutt [1]
- Louis Lozowick [1]
- Martin Lewis [1]
- Mel Bochner [1]
- Peggy Bacon [1]
- Petrus Feddes van Harlingen [2]
- Philip Guston [1]
- Robert Motherwell [1]
- Romeyn de Hooghe [18]
- Roy Lichtenstein [1]
- Sam Francis [1]
- Steven van Lamsweerde [1]
- Tom Wesselmann [1]
- Unknown Artist [6]
- Vija Celmins [1]
- Will Insley [7]
- Willem Jacobsz. Delff [1]