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Pair of Side Chairs https://www.artic.edu/artworks/33059/
Gift of the Antiquarian Society
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Bud vase https://www.artic.edu/artworks/86725/
Gift of Miss Helen Bournique
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Harriet White https://www.artic.edu/artworks/25964/
Gift of Mr. Joseph Winterbotham Jr.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Movements https://www.artic.edu/artworks/65916/
Unlike many other American artists, Marsden Hartley was more drawn to German Expressionism than to French modernism, and executed this painting in Berlin. Made on the eve of World War I, Movements possesses a turbulent energy that sparks associations with both the vibrancy of modern Berlin and movements of music. Like the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, Hartley sought to make his work more like music, which he admired for its nonnarrative nature and its potential to be purely spiritual or separate from material reality. Alfred Stieglitz Collection
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Bowl https://www.artic.edu/artworks/120132/
Gift of Dorothy Rosenthal
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Ring https://www.artic.edu/artworks/32931/
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Caster https://www.artic.edu/artworks/71881/
Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson Fund
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Jewelry Segment https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186075/
Restricted gift of Neville and John Bryan; through prior acquisition of various donors
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Ring https://www.artic.edu/artworks/32969/
Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Sugar Bowl with Cover https://www.artic.edu/artworks/73453/
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Cup plate https://www.artic.edu/artworks/82870/
The Mrs. Maurice H. Mandelbaum Collection
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Relief https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186680/
Relief exemplifies Charles Green Shaw’s conviction that a work of art did not require a subject to evoke an aesthetic response. Composed of a cascading arrangement of biomorphic forms, this striking wood construction conveys the compositional balance and rhythm that Shaw, an early member of the American Abstract Artists group, sought in his nonobjective works. Equally important, Relief is neither a painting nor a sculpture, but rather a hybrid of the two. The wood pieces enter the viewer’s space even as the work remains attached to the wall, the traditional realm of painting. Relief can therefore be seen as part of the ongoing modernist endeavor to challenge the two-dimensionality of the picture plane. Through prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Portrait of Samuel Armitage https://www.artic.edu/artworks/22760/
Mary Louise Stevenson Fund
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Pitcher https://www.artic.edu/artworks/71968/
Like many large, mechanized silver manufacturers at the beginning of the 20th century, Shreve and Company catered to the consumer demand for handcrafted goods, even though its designs were actually spun on a lathe. The rivets and strap handle on this pitcher suggest medieval origins, a popular influence for Arts and Crafts designers. Restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Plant Stand https://www.artic.edu/artworks/68903/
Restricted gift of O. Renard Goltra
November 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Dressing Table https://www.artic.edu/artworks/55123/
Gift of the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Sunka-Hanska—Oglala-Sioux Manderson South Dakota https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69573/
Gift of Edward E. Ayer
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"Jumbo"/Elephant pattern spoon rack https://www.artic.edu/artworks/148095/
Gift of Harold Allen
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Side Chair https://www.artic.edu/artworks/61582/
Gift of Gloria and Richard Manney
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Bowl https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76428/
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. John L. Haverkampf
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Pah-Puh https://www.artic.edu/artworks/182383/
In 1897 the Chicago artist Elbridge Ayer Burbank traveled west on behalf of his uncle, the philanthropist Edward E. Ayer, to paint a portrait of the famed Apache chief Geronimo, who was then living in captivity at Fort Sill in the Oklahoma territory. During his subsequent travels throughout the West, Burbank depicted individuals from numerous Native American tribes in ethnographic portraits, nevertheless focusing a sensitive artistic eye on his sitters. Like Hermon Atkins MacNeil before him, Burbank witnessed the Hopi Snake Dance in Arizona and followed the dance’s nine-day progress, ultimately producing more than 19 paintings of the participants. The Art Institute owns eight of these portraits. Each element of paint and dress carries a specific meaning in Burbank’s portraits. In his depictions of the Hopi priests Ko-Pe-Ley and Ho-Mo-Vi, for example, the black paint on the upper parts of their faces represents heavy rain clouds, and the white around their mouths stands for purity and faith. Eagle feathers, used in the ceremony to soothe the snakes, adorn their hair. Thus costumed, the priests would have removed the snakes from a special bag and placed the reptiles crosswise in their mouths. Despite his slightly loose brushwork, Burbank carefully depicted the priests’ ceremonial garb, giving his images anthropological authenticity as well as aesthetic power. He inscribed each portrait with the sitter's name and tribal affiliation, using "Moqui," an obsolete term for the Hopi people that is now considered offensive. Restricted gift of Mrs. Herbert A. Vance in honor of James N. Wood
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"Westward Ho!/Pioneer" pattern footed dish https://www.artic.edu/artworks/148092/
Gift of Harold Allen
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100829/
This sensuous and decorative image dates from the later part of Martin Johnson Heade’s long, varied, and peripatetic career. Traveling through much of the United States, to England and continental Europe, and (three different times) to Brazil, he produced work ranging from pristine views of East Coast salt marshes and lush tropical landscapes to pictures of exotic hummingbirds and orchids. At the age of sixty-four, Heade settled in Saint Augustine, Florida. There he began painting detailed arrangements of native flowers, including the Cherokee rose, orange blossom, and magnolia. Stretched out like an odalisque on blue velvet cloth, the curvaceous magnolia was meticulously rendered in pale, subtle hues and illuminated by a light so sharp that the image evokes the hyperintensity of a dream. The warm, steamy atmosphere is almost palpable, as is the blossom’s heady, pungent scent. The Art Institute’s Magnolias is one of a number of compositions by the artist featuring this dramatic yet delicate white flower. Restricted gift of Gloria and Richard Manney; Harold L. Stuart Endowment
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Ma-Si-Ni-So.Cheyenne https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69547/
Gift of Edward E. Ayer
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Waste Bowl, part of Tea and Coffee Service https://www.artic.edu/artworks/58407/
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. George B. Young
November 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM