Vaughn’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

John Q. Public, who, as many Chicagoans, is a hay-fever sufferer, visits a lot at Ravenswood and Morse avs., and between sneezes wonders what is being done to enforce the law requiring property owners to cut the weeds.
Vaughn Shoemaker American, 1902–1991

John Q. Public, who is interested in seeing that his neighbors get a square deal from the city government, visits Oscar E. Hewitt, city commissioner of public works, and learns that if materials could be paid for on the cash on delivery basis contractors might not put their bids on public construction so high.
Vaughn Shoemaker American, 1902–1991

John Q. Public again went after Joseph Geary, president of the Civil Service Commission, to see why the patrolmen's list hasn't been posted yet. He missed Mr. Geary, but had an enlightening conversation with Mr. James S. Osborne, secretary, who placated the old gent somewhat.
Vaughn Shoemaker American, 1902–1991

John Q. Public had planned on buying a double-decked bed for his youngsters to celebrate his raise in salary, but gave up the idea upon discovering that the price of furniture had received about five or six increases on account of higher costs of production.
Vaughn Shoemaker American, 1902–1991

John Q. Public visits the dump at 19th st. and Wolcott av. with James J. Creed, superintendent of the city dumps, and Mrs. Walter J. Kelly, head of the OCD's waste fats salvage division, where he is shown how tin cans picked up by city garbage trucks are deposited for shipment to detinning plants.
Vaughn Shoemaker American, 1902–1991

Sugar Basin
Joseph Shoemaker American, 1765–1829 Philadelphia

Charging Rhinoceros
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington American, 1876–1973

Salt Cellar
Attributed to the Milan Marsyas Painter (Italian, active about 1525-1535)

Tiger Catching Bird
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington American, 1876–1973

Portrait of a Shoemaker (Spartacid)
Ludwig Meidner German, 1884-1966

The Shoemaker
James McNeill Whistler American, 1834-1903

The Shoemaker
James McNeill Whistler American, 1834-1903

McKinley, the Shoemaker, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A."
Dawoud Bey American, born 1953

Green Man (Furnishing Fabric)
Designed by Keith Vaughn (English, 1912–1977) Produced by Edinburgh Weavers England, London

The Shoemaker
James McNeill Whistler American, 1834-1903

Chinese Shoemaker
John Leech or after English, 1817-1864

The Shoemaker
James McNeill Whistler American, 1834-1903

Martyl Papers
Martyl, 1917-2013.

Face
Artist unknown (Teotihuacan) Teotihuacan, Vallery of Mexico, Mexico

Sullivaniana Collection
Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924)