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Paintings and sculptures in the Reading Room are from the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.

  1. William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) Alice, 1892 Oil on canvas, Gift of Earnest A. Hamil,1893.7
  2. Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot (1794-1862) Pierre François Leonard Fontaine, c. 1839. Patinated plaster, 1988.276.
  3. Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot (1794-1862) Charles Percier, c. 1838. Patinated plaster, 1988.275.
  4. Louis Betts (1873-1961) Martin Antoine Ryerson, c. 1913. Oil on canvas, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1183.
  5. Leopold Gould Seyffert (1887-1956) Myself, 1925. Oil on canvas, Gift of Percy B. Eckhart, 1925.1509.
  6. Marcel François Loyau (1895-?) Edward H. Bennett, Sr., c. 1927. Bronze, Edward H. Bennett Collection. Gift of Mrs. Edward H. Bennett, Jr., 1995.
  7. Albin Polasek (1897-1965) Charles W. Hawthorne, 1917. Bronze, Frank G. Logan Fund, 1918.30.
  8. Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940) Surf and Fog, Monhegan, Maine, c. 1910. Oil on canvas, Friends of American Art Collection, 1912.1813.
  9. Jo Davidson (1883-1952) Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, c. 1911. Bronze, 1959.20.
  10. Rudolph F. Ingerle (1879-1950) Swappin' Grounds, c. 1928. Oil on canvas, Friends of American Art Collection, 1928.523.
  11. Albin Polasek (1897-1965) Howard Van Doren Shaw, 1920. Bronze, Gift of Mrs. Howard Van Doren Shaw, 1926.587.
  12. Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924) for Holabird and Roche. Fragment of the Gage Building facade, 1898-1900. Cast iron, Gift of Dubin, Dubin and Black in memory of Henry and Anne Dubin, 1964.424.
  13. Ivan Mestrovic (1883-1962) Norman Rice, 1953. Patinated plaster, Gift of Susan Lewis.
  14. Oliver Dennett Grover (1861-1927) June Morning, Lake Orta, 1913. Oil on canvas, Friends of American Art Collection, 1913.789.
  15. Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) Arthur Jerome Eddy, c. 1898. Bronze, 1931.502.
  16. George Gardner Symons (1863-1930) The Winter Sun, c. 1910. Oil on canvas, Friends of American Art Collection, 1910.313.
  17. Albin Polasek (1897-1965) Charles L. Hutchinson, c. 1921. Bronze, 1921.125.
  18. Albin Polasek (1897-1965) Frank G. Logan, before 1920. Bronze, Gift of the artist, 1920.36.
  19. Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930) Albin Polasek, 1917. Oil on canvas, Friends of American Art Collection, 1917.266.
  20. Gari Melchers (1860-1932) Charles L. Hutchinson, c. 1902. Oil on canvas, Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson, 1902.105.
  21. Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930) Selectmen of Provincetown, c. 1924. Oil on fabric on pulp board, Friends of American Art Collection, 1924.952.
  22. Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851-1929) Springtime and Love, c. 1878. Oil on canvas, A.A. Munger Collection, 190l.429.
  23. Bennett, Parsons & Frost (1922-1938) A Century of Progress / Chicago Worlds Fair Centennial Celebration: General Circulation Plan, Ink and graphite on linen, red ink contour lines on verso. Gift of Edward H. Bennett, Jr. to Burnham Library, 1953, 1991.202.
  24. A.F. Nyholm (1866-1927) (after Anders Zorn) Daniel H. Burnham. Oil on canvas, 1987.251.
  25. Anders Leonard Zorn (1860-1920) Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1893 Oil on canvas. Potter Palmer Collection, 1922.450.
  26. Harihara, Plaster cast painted to imitate stone, from the French Colonial display at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. (Original now in National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.)

(list revised 3/25/2002)

     
 

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