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Weekly update: AIC, quilt show, the end of an era, a finish! and a flimsy from With Strings Attached

I've had ample opportunities to go downtown to see the Caillebotte exhibit at the Art Institute, but it took a "closing soon!" email to get me to do it on Friday.

Wealthy Chicagoans in the Gilded Age (1890's) bought Impressionists as modern and avant-garde, and relatively inexpensive. They were patrons of the Art Institute and thus the museum developed its Impressionist collection.

"Paris Street, Rainy Day" was acquired in 1964 and has become one of AIC's most famous paintings. Caillebotte painted it in 1877.

I had hoped to go to this famous intersection (Carrefour du Moscou) when ...

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#alaac2023 in Chicago, part 2 from With Strings Attached

I took advantage of free time + being downtown.

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.

From the website:

Between 1882 and 1890, five artists—Vincent van Gogh, along with Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand—flocked to villages on the fringes of Paris. Unlike the earlier Impressionists, who in the previous decade had spent significant time in suburban locations further from the ...

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A day downtown: Cezanne and more from With Strings Attached

The Art Institute's big summer show is a retrospective of works by Paul Cezanne. It opened in May and closes September 5. I finally quit dithering and went to see it this past Monday.

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.)

The AIC lions were reinstalled a few weeks ago after a month-long cleaning and ...

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A day downtown, part 2: Bisa Butler's quilts! from With Strings Attached

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.

Butler bases her portraits on photographs.

These are the girls who died in the Birmingham Church bombing in 1963.

The corridor between galleries was wallpapered.

The exhibit catalog was sold out at the museum store. They said to log into the shop website to see when they restock. I contented myself with a packet of postcards. Okay, two packets. :)

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A day downtown, part 1: Monet from With Strings Attached

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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