Thursday afternoon: Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: the Modern Landscape is this summer's big show at the Art Institute. I'd heard of Van Gogh and Seurat, of course, but I was not familiar with their contemporaries Signac, Bernard, and Angrand.
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I walked the mile from the train station to the museum. I'm an AIC member so I could get in at 10:00 (general public at 11:00) with no lines. This was the second AIC visit I've had since the pandemic. (Here is my post from May 2021.)
Bisa Butler's magnificent portrait quilts are on exhibit at the Art Institute. Wow. Wow. Wow. Here is AIC website. They're large -- 6 x 8 feet or so.
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Butler bases her portraits on photographs.
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| These are the girls who died in the Birmingham Church bombing in 1963. |
When I retired seven years ago I thought I'd go downtown (Chicago) frequently. That hasn't happened -- and certainly not this past year. The lure of TWO terrific exhibits at the Art Institute (and the fact that I've been fully vaccinated, to say nothing of feeling cabin-cribbed and confined) emboldened me. The commuter train was uncrowded.
The Monet exhibit concentrated on paintings acquired by Chicagoans who were early collectors of his work -- Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ryerson, and Annie Swan Coburn.
For more about these collectors: here
It's still hard for me ...
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