This volume focuses on a wide range of Victorian-era objects from Britain and the United States in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The following topics are explored: still-life painting in nineteenth-century America; the burgeoning Victorian print market; a fascinating sketchbook used by the English painter Edward Burne-Jones; a spectacular Gothic-style British wine cabinet; and a rare photographic album compiled by an aristocratic English family. Also featured, in a portfolio section, are other highlights from the museum’s Victorian collection, including furniture, paintings, photographs, textiles, and works on paper by such noted artists as Julia Margaret Cameron, William Morris, and John Everett Millais.

Objects of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

Arts & Photography

Zelleke, Ghenete

BARTER, Judith A.

History & Criticism

Art Institute of Chicago

American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The first publication to focus on the Art Institute’s outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorative-art objects, and works on paper made in North America between World War II and 1955. Together they fully reflect the history of American art in these decades, including examples of early modernism, Social Realism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. Among the paintings are such iconic works as Hopper’s Nighthawks and Wood’s American Gothic, along with notable pieces by Davis, De Kooning, Hartley, Lawrence, Marin, O’Keeffe, Pollock, and Sheeler. Among the sculptors represented are Calder, Cornell, and Noguchi. Spectacular decorative artwork by the Eameses, Grotell, Neutra, Saarinen, F. L. Wright, and Zeisel are also featured. Reproduced in full color, each work is accompanied by an accessible and up-to-date text, complete with comparative illustrations. The introduction traces the formation of this important collection by a number of noted curators, collectors, and patrons.

American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955

Downs, Jennifer M.

The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest collections of American folk art. For Kith and Kin provides an introduction to that collection through more than sixty of its most outstanding objects. Selected by premier American art scholar Judith A. Barter, the majority of these objects have never before been published.
In a groundbreaking opening essay, Barter revisits the earliest days of folk-art collecting in Chicago, beginning in the 1890s. She pays special attention to the passionate individuals who sought out unique and expressive examples of American folk art, building private collections that they later donated to the Art Institute. Including beautiful reproductions and detailed entries for each of the sixty-one objects it features, this book highlights an array of masterworks such as "primitive" New England portraits, a face jug from South Carolina, New Mexican ceramics, a weathervane, and ship figureheads.

For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago

Obniski, Monica

America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s

A unique look at America’s quest to carve out an artistic identity during the Depression era Through 50 masterpieces of painting, this fascinating catalogue chronicles the turbulent economic, political, and aesthetic climate of the 1930s. This decade was a supremely creative period in the United States, as the nation’s artists, novelists, and critics struggled through the Great Depression seeking to define modern American art. In the process, many painters challenged and reworked the meanings and forms of modernism, reaching no simple consensus. This period was also marked by an astounding diversity of work as artists sought styles—ranging from abstraction to Regionalism to Surrealism—that allowed them to engage with issues such as populism, labor, social protest, and to employ an urban and rural iconography including machines, factories, and farms. Seminal works by Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O’Keeffe, Aaron Douglas, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, and others show such attempts to capture the American character. These groundbreaking paintings, highlighting the relationship between art and national experience, demonstrate how creativity, experimentation, and revolutionary vision flourished during a time of great uncertainty.

America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s

Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) holds a unique place in the history of art. One of the few women artists to succeed professionally in her era, she was the only American invited to exhibit with the French Impressionists. This handsome volume, richly illustrated with paintings, prints, and pastels spanning Cassatt's entire career, accompanies a major traveling exhibition that opens at The Art Institute of Chicago in October 1998. Essays trace Cassatt's development from her early influences through her critical role in bringing Old Master and Impressionist art to the United States. The superb colorplates clearly demonstrate why Cassatt is considered one of North America's most important artists. Supplementary works by Cassatt's contemporaries are reproduced along with numerous photographs and the first complete list of exhibitions in which Cassatt participated in her lifetime. The exhibition travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ju

Cassatt, Mary

Hirshler, Erica E.

Art Institute Of Chicago

Individual Artists

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

A social and cultural history of the role played by Chicago artists and their patrons in the evolution of depicting the landscape and people of the American West. Works by a variety of artists including Remington, MacNeil, Ufer, Higgins, and O'Keeffe.

Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940

Hudson Hills

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), Lead Corporate Sponsor of Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine. For more than a century, ADM has connected the harvest to the home, transforming farmers' bounty into a range of food ingredients that nourish and delight millions of people every day. It is fitting, then, that we should join with the Art Institute of Chicago to present Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine. The exhibition allows us to celebrate the strength and ingenuity of American art and agriculture. Offering a new perspective on American still-life painting since colonial times, the exhibition illuminates the history of our nation's food culture. The works in the exhibition reinforce the idea that food is at the center of our culture: ot just our health, but our families, identifies, aspirations, and even our dreams.

Art and Appetite American Painting, Culture and Cuisine

Art Inst of Chicago

American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum

Beautiful album of colorplates from great Connecticut collection: Homer, Sargent, Hopper, more.

Wadsworth Atheneum

American Federation of Arts

Hudson Hills Pr

Beautiful album of colorplates from great Connecticut collection: Homer, Sargent, Hopper, more.

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Objects of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I

American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955

For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago

America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s

Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman

Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940

Art and Appetite American Painting, Culture and Cuisine

American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum

American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum