The Old Guitarist - by Pablo Picasso
Late 1903–early 1904 / Oil on panel
Location: the Art Institute of Chicago [Modern/Contemporary Wing]
From the AIC website.. [click here..] Pablo Picasso produced The Old Guitarist, one of his most haunting images, while working in Barcelona. In the paintings of his Blue Period (1901–04), of which...
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Unveiling of Picasso's monumental sculpture at Daley Center Plaza
PICASSO and CHICAGO
Temporary Exhibit : February 20, 2013 – May 12, 2013
At Regenstein Hall [The Art Institute of Chicago]
Curator: Stephanie D'Alessandro.
The Exhibition marks the centennial anniversary of the Armory Show in 1913. at the Art Institute of Chicago [AIC] which became the first American...
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Man of Sorrow - by Marion Perkins
1950/Marble
Temporary Exhibition: They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration [1910-1950].
March 3, 2013 – June 2, 2013.
Marion Perkins was a self taught Chicago artist [1908-1961], who usually worked with scrap stones from abandoned buildings.. He began with carving soap into faces and figures, and moved to...
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Fountain of the Great Lakes - by Lorado Taft
Bronze work created between 1907-1913.
Installed: 1913 / Relocated: 1963.
Location: South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Fountain of the Great Lakes was the first commission of Benjamin F. Ferguson Fund, which had been established several years earlier to foster the placement...
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