AIC: American Art (Bot)
LightNews LightNews
banner
aicamerican.bsky.social
AIC: American Art (Bot)
@aicamerican.bsky.social
130 followers 3 following 2.2K posts
Sharing artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago's American Art department.
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Posts Replies Media Videos
aicamerican.bsky.social
Flask https://www.artic.edu/artworks/72759/
Gift of William B. McIlvaine Jr. in memory of his mother Marian Fenno McIlvaine
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Dish https://www.artic.edu/artworks/120150/
Gift of Dorothy Rosenthal
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
June Morning: Lake Orta https://www.artic.edu/artworks/106557/
Friends of American Art Collection
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Lidded Jar https://www.artic.edu/artworks/137039/
Gift of Mrs. William G. Swartchild Jr.
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Pair of Andirons https://www.artic.edu/artworks/73963/
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Vase https://www.artic.edu/artworks/241615/
This striking six-pronged vase is part of a small group of modernist art glass by Frederick Carder for the Steuben Division of Corning Glass Works. Carder was a glass blower, born and trained in England. He preferred traditional forms and elaborate ornament, but like many of his contemporaries active in the late 1920s, he responded to the international interest in abstraction and avant-garde experimentation by incorporating sharp angles, asymmetry, and bright color combinations into some of his designs. American Art Discretionary Fund
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Bottle https://www.artic.edu/artworks/253795/
Marie Zimmermann was a pioneering jeweler and metalsmith who employed a range of materials to create alluring surfaces like this bottle’s. Zimmermann was interested in the history of design and metalsmithing around the world, and her experimental approach was inspired by the vast global collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she spent time as an art student in New York. This bottle is a refined example of Zimmerman’s ability to combine the sleek lines of modernism—in the body of the vessel—with her interest in Chinese art—in the lapis, jade, and metal stopper. It was made at a pivotal point in her career, when she began expanding her output beyond jewelry into decorative objects for the home. Restricted gift of Mrs. John T. Golitz
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Vase https://www.artic.edu/artworks/19258/
Restricted gift of Mrs. Francis Clow Thayer, Alschuler Philanthropic Fund, and Mary Louise Womer
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Jug https://www.artic.edu/artworks/106153/
Gift of Emma B. Hodge
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Kneeling Women https://www.artic.edu/artworks/44003/
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Teapot https://www.artic.edu/artworks/71914/
Restricted gift of Marilyn and Thomas L. Karsten in honor of her parents, Gertrude and Perry S. Herst
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Water Pitcher https://www.artic.edu/artworks/44881/
Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Pair of Candlesticks https://www.artic.edu/artworks/89128/
In 1900 Robert Riddle Jarvie began advertising himself as “the Candlestick Maker.” He produced 16 different designs, each named after a Greek letter. These elongated candlesticks take inspiration from natural flower forms, reflecting the influence of the English Arts and Crafts movement. Jarvie also fashioned hollowware reminiscent of medieval forms and incorporated spare, geometric ornament and Celtic-inspired script into his designs. Bessie Bennett and Mrs. Herbert Stern funds
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Emblems for Royal Crown Lodge No. 22 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/61117/
Gift of the Estate of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Nathan Hale https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11307/
Frederick William MacMonnies was one of the most important American sculptors of the late 19th century. Nathan Hale represents MacMonnies’s first public commission won by competition, and the sculpture’s installation in City Hall Park in New York brought him immediate fame. MacMonnies spent much of his professional life in France, where he earned and executed this commission. The figure’s modeling is remarkably expressive—even in this version of reduced scale—MacMonnies harmonizing a measure of romanticism with the period’s growing taste for naturalism in bronze. A Revolutionary War–era hero hanged by the British in 1776, Hale is shown moments before his death, his arms and feet bound, his clothes disheveled, yet his demeanor strong and dignified. Gift of Robert Allerton
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
A Holiday https://www.artic.edu/artworks/71573/
A Holiday depicts one of the beach scenes for which Edward Henry Potthast was best known. Capturing a quintessentially Impressionist setting—a sun-dappled landscape with women and children enjoying leisure time—the artist also utilized the movement’s technique of broken brushwork and the use of brilliant colors. In the painting the children converse and frolic at the water’s edge on a windy day. There is nothing threatening about the waves or wind; indeed, Potthast’s paintings were both praised and criticized for presenting nothing other than a pleasant, innocent, and optimistic view. Friends of American Art Collection
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
A Face from Georgia https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93802/
Gift of Ivan Albright
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Face Jug https://www.artic.edu/artworks/186659/
Juli and David Grainger Fund
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Vase https://www.artic.edu/artworks/133969/
Gift of Denis Gallion and Daniel Morris
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/83905/
Replete with powerful imagery and bearing a long, philosophical title, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door) is an evocative meditation on the choices and regrets in life. Ivan Albright considered The Door to be his most important picture, and he worked for ten years to achieve its mesmerizing effect. He spent weeks collecting props for the painting: a marred Victorian door found in a junkyard, a faded wax funeral wreath, and a tombstone for the doorsill. Once he arranged these objects, Albright completed an elaborate charcoal underdrawing that he then covered with the intricate and obsessively painted detail that characterizes most of his work. He would often finish no more than a quarter of a square inch a day. A wrinkled, aging woman’s hand rests on the carved doorway, a faded blue handkerchief clenched between the fingers. The poignant placement of the hand, near but not touching the doorknob, only underscores the sense of remorse and mourning implied by the painting. With its profound themes of mortality and the passage of time, The Dooris a modern memento mori that encourages a consideration of the brevity of human existence. Mary and Leigh Block Charitable Fund
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Silver Springs https://www.artic.edu/artworks/25859/
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Cologne Bottle https://www.artic.edu/artworks/47299/
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Castle in memory of her parents Vacia and Charles D. Duncan
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Red Lumina with Concentric Disc https://www.artic.edu/artworks/121578/
Thomas Patti was trained in industrial design at the Pratt Institute, and his interest in glass grew out of academic investigations into the nexus of art, engineering, and architecture. Patti’s work is nonfunctional and deals with the potential of the form, particularly the question of how to juxtapose pieces of glass. This piece invites the viewer to look into the glass (preferably with the aid of light transmitted from below) in order to appreciate the geometric yet delicate quality of the layers of glass. Gift of the Auxiliary Board and the Henry Foundation
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Armchair https://www.artic.edu/artworks/73673/
Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson Fund
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
aicamerican.bsky.social
Sugar Basin https://www.artic.edu/artworks/87161/
The Stickney Fund
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM