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  • Chicago Art and Artists in the Archives of American Art
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • No-Jury Society
  • Exhibition Momentum
  • The Anti-Modernists
  • Hyde Park Art Center and Imagism
  • From Abercrombie to Zeisler

Chicago Art and Artists in the Archives of American Art

Archives of American Art

The Archives of American Art holds rich resources documenting important Chicago artists, art institutions, and organizations, and we have selected some rare and unique materials from those resources to highlight here.

How to Explore this Collection Feature

Online: To explore collection items in this online feature, use the navigation options in the sidebar under the "Contents of Exhibition" heading.


Rowena C. Fry christmas card to Kathleen Blackshear

Harry Bouras sketchbook

School of the Art Institute of Chicago newsletter, volume one, issue 2

Chart outlining art historical styles and events in the Americas and Europe

First annual exhibition of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists

The parade of the Chicago artists to the No-jury Artists cubist ball

Exhibition Momentum

Art Institute of Chicago catalog for Artists of Chicago and vicinity exhibition

Jack Tworkov jurying Exhibition Momentum in Chicago

Josephine Hancock Logan

James Allmond Day letter to Eleanor Jewett

Hyde Park Art Center brochure for Winter classes

Promotional photo for Marriage: Chicago style exhibit

Karl Wirsum letter to Don Baum

Sketch of a tree

A maid bed is better made

Gertrude Abercrombie self-portrait

Watercolor sketch of sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago

C. J. (Clarence Joseph) Bulliet letter to Dwight H. (Dwight Herbert) Green

Macena Barton with two of her paintings

Eldzier Cortor in his studio

Halsted & Monroe

"The Five" exhibition announcement

Sketch of horse and rider

Summary tables from CAA survey of MFA degree granting institutions, with sketch by Ellen Lanyon

Lorri Wirsum, Karl Wirsum, and Ruby Wonder Wirsum

Karl Wirsum's studio

Ray Yoshida photo strips

Ray Yoshida scrapbook of comic book clippings

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