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25 unusual facts about Art Institute of Chicago


American Artists Club

Many of the original founding members ended up in Chicago affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibited together frequently.

Arthur Jerome Eddy

In 1931, his widow and son donated 20 paintings and 3 sculptures to the Art Institute of Chicago to form the Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection. as described below.

Arthur Upham Pope

In 2010 the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the museums Pope advised, presented an exhibition, "Arthur Pope and a New Survey of Persian Art," curated by Dr. Yuka Kadoi.

Chicago Postcard Museum

Some of the exhibitions cover The Museum of Science and Industry and The Art Institute of Chicago.

Dorothy Cumming

He was a British artist and designer who became the art director of Life, worked as design director for Norman Bel Geddes, and became the director of administration of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Egon Weiner

Egon Weiner (1906 – August 1, 1987) was a Chicago sculptor and longtime professor (1945–1971) at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Elisa Strauss

She also spent a semester during her junior year at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh

He has been a Visiting Artist at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1987 and 2002, and a Writer/Artist in Residence at Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide, Italy (1998), at the University of Pennsylvania (2002), and at Montalvo, California (2005).

Indego Africa

Indego Africa's partner-entrepreneurs have had their works sold by retailers such as Ralph Lauren and Anthropologie and by art collectors such as those at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Janene Higgins

Her work has been performed and exhibited at The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center; documenta in Kassel, Germany; The Kitchen, NYC; Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon; City of Women festival, Slovenia; The Chelsea Art Museum, NYC; HiTeca Festival in Porto, Portugal; Art Institute of Chicago; Experimenta Festival in Buenos Aires; The Hamburg Short Film Festival; and at The Impakt Festival in The Netherlands.

Jean Hélion

Hélion's work is in many French museums, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and the Tate Gallery, London.

John Pfahl

Pfahl has appeared in over 100 group and solo exhibitions, and his work is represented in at least forty-five public and corporate collections, including the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Marvin Cone

He graduated from Coe College in 1914 and then studied for several years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Matt Saracen

Knowing he won't be playing football anywhere after being benched as a senior, Matt looks at different art schools before deciding on the Art Institute of Chicago.

Mel Kendrick

Kendrick's work can be found in numerous permanent collections, including The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, The National Gallery of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Storm King Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Nikola Moravčević

After three years of service in the U.S. Army, he continued his Graduate studies, obtaining a magisterial degree in Theatrical Directing from the School of Theatre Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1961, and in 1964 a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Pat Adams

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949 after which she took courses at the California College of Arts and Crafts, University of the Pacific and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Paul Hoover

Hoover was a founding board member and former president of the independent poetry reading series, "The Poetry Center at School of the Art Institute of Chicago," which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004.

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want

The instrumental version of the song is the better known cover version, since it was used in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (during the Art Institute scene) along with an other Dream Academy song "The Edge of Forever".

Ross McElwee

Retrospectives include the Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Retrospectives have also been held in Paris, Tehran, Moscow, Seoul, Lisbon, and Quito.

Rowan Nathaniel House

He spent his childhood in Mineral Wells, just south of Memphis, Tennessee and later attended the Art Institute of Chicago.

Terra Foundation for American Art

A selection of Terra Foundation paintings remains on long-term loan to the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Institute also houses the Foundation’s collection of works on paper.

Tokihiro Satō

Sato’s photographs are held throughout the world in public and private museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Japan); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

William Wondriska

In 1961 Wondriska founded Wondriska Associates, a design firm which became known for its branding work with such clients as the Walt Disney Company, Children's Television Workshop, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, and the Boston Symphony.

World's Congress of Representative Women

After the Exposition, the World's Congress Auxiliary Building where the various congresses had convened, was given to the Art Institute of Chicago.


Anna Althea Hills

Hills attended Olivet College, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.

Birney Imes

Some of his work is exhibited in the permanent collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama and the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

Bongoût

Their artists books are in numerous prestigious museums and collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University's Fine Art library in Cambridge, MA, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University "Art of the Book" Collection (Sterling Library), New Haven, CT.

Center on Halsted

Collaborators in the past have included the Museum of Contemporary Art, After School Matters, The Chicago Historical Society, The University of Chicago, The Chicago Architecture Foundation, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Garfield Park Conservatory, the Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Cubs.

Charles Green Shaw

Shaw’s work is part of most major collections of American Art, including the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian Institution, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery.

Charles Harbutt

His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of American History, the Corcoran Gallery, the U.S. Library of Congress, George Eastman House, the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Center of Photography, the Center for Creative Photography, and at the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Beaubourg, and the Maison Europeene de la Photographie in Paris.

Claire Zeisler

Zeisler's work was presented in retrospective exhibits in the Art Institute of Chicago (1979) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1985).

Dankmar Adler

Photographs and other archival materials are held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago.

E. Irving Couse

His works won recognition and numerous awards from such institutions as the following: the Paris Salon, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design (Altman prize, 1916); and the Salmagundi Club (Isidor prize, 1917).

Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford

Blatchford’s contributions continue to be present across the state of Illinois through his extensive work as a trustee of Illinois College, Rockford Seminary, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Eve Drewelowe

Her work was shown at National Association of Women Artists exhibitions, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Gianni Cilfone

Gianni Cilfone (1908–1990) was an Italian American artist who emigrated to Chicago at the age of 5 and later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Goodman Theatre

The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a professional repertory company and a school of drama at the Institute.

Helen Svensson Fletre

When King Olav V of Norway visited Chicago in 1975, she took him on a personal tour of the Edvard Munch exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.

J. Abbott Miller

His work is represented in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Bibliothèque National de France.

Karl Priebe

His paintings were shown at major public and private galleries, among them the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Leonard Baskin

His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums.

Lugenia Burns Hope

Between 1890 and 1893 she studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Chicago School of Design (now also part of the Art Institute of Chicago), and the Chicago Business College.

Margaret Fitzhugh Browne

Her works were included in the exhibitions of most of these organizations and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Michael Jaharis

He has made charitable contributions to the DePaul University College of Law, Columbia University Medical Center, the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, the Tufts University School of Medicine, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Opera.

Robert Nickle

Robert Nickle's work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum, Smithsonian Museum, Carnegie Institute Museum and the National Gallery in Washington.

Satyress

The Art Institute of Chicago has an example of a beautiful, mature satyress accompanied by putti and a male satyr in a 16th-century study by Paolo Farinati of Italy.

Stanley Matthew Mitruk

He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941 through 1942, and at Jane Addams Hull House as a private student of Julio De Diego in 1943.