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Exhibition History of The Art Institute, 1940-1944

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1940
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
Recent Works Aquired by the Art Institute 1939-1940 0 0
American Exhibition 50th Annual : Half a Century of American Art, 1888-1938 Nov. 16, 1939-Jan.7, 1940 3 5339 FF7
Portraiture in Prints, Clarence Buckingham Collection Oct.3, 1939-Sept.15 1940 0 0
Children's Museum / Gallery of Art Interpretation: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Moulin Rouge Oct.5, 1939-Jan.8, 1940 0 6239
Camera Club Photographic Service and Eastman Kodak Co.: Photography at Work Oct.24, 1939-Jan.5, 1940 0 0
Japanese Prints, New Accessions to the Clarence Buckingham Collection Nov.1, 1939-Jan.15, 1940 0 0
International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving 7th Annual Nov.10, 1939-Jan.15, 1940 5 5339 FF11
Masterpieces of Italian Art lent by the Royal Italian Government Nov.18, 1939-Jan.9, 1940 6 5339 FF2a-h.Oversize photos. Box 6
Abstract Art by Students Dec.4, 1939-Jan.5, 1940 BCL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Japanese Actor Print by Toshusai Sharaku January, 1940 BCL 0
Selections from the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection of Drawings Jan.1-Oct.1, 1940 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Portrait of the Actor, Ichikawa Omezo, as Ippei, a Man Servant, Print, by Toshusai Sharaku, Clarence Buckingham Collection Jan.2-Feb.1, 1940 0 0
W.P.A. Handicraft Project, Milwaukee, Wis. Jan.9-Feb.17, 1940 0 0
Prints and Drawings of Architectural Interest Jan.19-Sept.15, 1940 0 0
Etchings and Wood Engravings by Auguste Lepere Jan.19-Sept.15, 1940 0 0
SAIC: Art Students' League Jan.29-Feb.22, 1940 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Portrait of George Washington, by Edward Savage, gift of Catherine Colvin February, 1940 BCL 0
Picasso: Forty Years of His Art Feb.1-Mar.3, 1940 2 5340 FF2
The Surviving Works of Sharaku Feb.1-Mar.15, 1940 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Understanding Picasso: A Study of His Styles and Development Feb.1-Mar.18, 1940 1OS 6240
Japanese Prints: Portraits of Actors and Famous Beauties by Various Artists, Clarence Buckingham Collection Feb.3-Mar.30, 1940 0 0
Italian Baroque Prints Feb.7-Sept.15, 1940 0 0
SAIC: Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by John Beaver, John Quincy Adams Fellowship 1938 Feb.23-Mar.8, 1940 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: St. John the Baptist, Engraving by Giulio Campagnola, Charles Deering Collection March, 1940 BCL 0
K. Boysen Toys Mar.4-Mar.30, 1940 0 0
SAIC: Advertising Design Mar.9-Mar.23, 1940 0 0
Chicago and Vicinity 44th Annual Mar.14-Apr.14, 1940 4 5340 FF3
Japanese Prints and Paintings, Frederick W. Gookin Memorial Collection Mar.20-June 20, 1940 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Lines That Live Mar.21-May 18, 1940 0 0
SAIC: Paintings by Marie Dapples Mar.25-Apr.6, 1940 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Stoke-by-Nayland by John Constable, W. W. Kimball Collection April, 1940 BCL 0
Traveling Fine Arts Exhibit, Stephens College Apr.2-Apr.12, 1940 BCL 0
SAIC: Fashion Show Apr.5, 1940 0 0
SAIC: Omega Chapter, University of Oklahoma Apr.8-Apr.12, 1940 0 0
SAIC: Alpha Beta Chapter, California College of Arts and Crafts Apr.15-Apr.19, 1940 BCL 0
Photos by Dr. Julian Smith, East Melbourne, Australia Apr.15-May 6, 1940 0 0
Paintings of, by, and collected by Mrs. Robert R. McCormick Apr.17-June 2, 1940 CL 5340 FF8
SAIC: 6th Annual Student Janitors Exhibition Apr.19-May 3, 1940 0 0
Photos by Chin-San Long, Shanghai, China Apr.22-May 6, 1940 0 0
International Exhibition of Water Colors 19th Annual Apr.25-May 26, 1940 3 5340 FF7
National Youth Administration: Projects done by the Ceramics and Art History Students of the SAIC Apr.25-Mar.6, 1940 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: A Group of Mexican Majolica of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Herbert Pickering Lewis Collection May, 1940 BCL 0
Japanese Prints; One Hundred Views of Yedo by Hiroshige, Frederick W. Gookin Collection May 1-Oct.15, 1940 0 0
SAIC: Robert Lifvendahl, Ryerson Fellowship 1938 May 6-June 3, 1940 BCL 0
Antiquarian Society: English Domestic Silver of the 18th c., lent by Chicago Collectors May 8-June 8, 1940 0 0
W.P.A.: Visual Educational Charts for Chicago Junior Colleges made by Museum Extension Aid Project 30185 May 20-May 24, 1940 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Work Done by Children in the Saturday Classes of the Art Institute School May 23-July 31, 1940 0 0
Junior Classes of the SAIC May 25-July 20, 1940 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Six Episodes in the Capture of the Bandit Margato by the Monk Pedro de Zaldivia by Francisco Goya, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection June, 1940 BCL 0
SAIC: Abstractions by Students at Paul Theobald Galleries June, 1940 0 0
School of the Art Institute Annual June 6-July 7, 1940 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Apocalypse of St. John, The Lamb Receiving the Sealed Book, Page from a Block Book, Joseph Brooks Fair Collection July, 1940 BCL 0
Chicago Sculptors July 18-Oct.20, 1940 CL 5340 FF 9
Young Chicago Painters/Ten Chicago Painters July 18-Oct.20, 1940 CL 5340 FF1
Contemporary French Painting lent by Chicago Collectors July 18-Oct.20, 1940 CL 0
50th Anniversary Exhibition of Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theater and Hotel July 18-Oct.20, 1940 0 0
Art in the Movies July 18-Oct.20, 1940 0 0
Senior Chicago Painters July 18-Oct.20, 1940 0 0
The Development of the Transfer Print in the Decoration of Late 18th and Early 19th Century Ceramics July 18-Oct.20, 1940 0 0
Modern Prints Since 1900 July 18-Oct.20, 1940 0 5340 FF5
The Masterpiece of the Month: Head of a Disciple of the Buddha, Sculptured by the Dried Lacquer Process, gift of the Orientals, T'ang Dynasty August, 1940 BCL 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Poster Design Aug.8-Sept.15, 1940 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Herring Net by Winslow Homer, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection September, 1940 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Spanish Embroidered Altarpiece, gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson October, 1940 BCL 0
Japanese Prints by the Early Masters, Clarence Buckingham Collection Oct.18-Dec.20, 1940 0 0
SAIC: Art Students League Exhibition Oct.25-Nov.8, 1940 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Adoration of the Magi by Francesco Botticini, Martin Ryerson Collection November, 1940 BCL 0
SAIC: 3rd Annual Saugatuck Exhibition of Photography Nov.14-Nov.16, 1940 0 0
National Art Week Nov.25-Dec.1, 1940 2 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Virgin and Child by Andrea Mantegna, Charles Netcher II Memorial Collection December, 1940 BCL 0
Exhibition of Radio Visualization Dec. 4-Dec.6, 1940 0 0
1941
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
Ancient Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Robinson Collection June 28, 1940-1941 2 0
American Hand-woven Coverlets Oct.1, 1940-Apr.1, 1941 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Pottery and Porcelain, Basic Forms and Methods of Decoration Oct.3, 1940-Jan.20, 1941 0 0
The Beginnings of Lithography Oct.15, 1940-Jan.15, 1941 0 0
Lithographs by Daumier Oct.15, 1940-Apr.1, 1941 0 5340 FF4
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Self-Portraiture through the Ages Oct.15, 1940-Jan.15, 1941 0 0
Views of Italy in the 17th Century, Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection Oct.15, 1940-May 1, 1941 0 0
English Landscape Traditions from the Early 19th C. to Seymour Haden Oct.15, 1940-Jan.15, 1941 0 0
Peasants and Landscapes by Rembrandt and His Contemporaries, Clarence Buckingham Collection Oct.15, 1940-Apr.30, 1941 0 0
Japanese Prints by the Early Masters from the Clarence Buckingham Collection Oct.18, 1940-Feb.10, 1941 0 0
American Paintings and Sculpture 51st Annual Nov.14, 1940-Jan.5, 1941 2 5341 FF1. Oversize photos. Box5 (H. Small)
Japanese Priest Robes from the Collection of the Late Mrs. George T. Smith, lent by Mrs.Charles C. Haffner, Jr. Dec.15, 1940-Aug.15, 1941 0 0
Japanese Prints by Suzuki Harunobu, Clarence Buckingham Collection Dec.28, 1940-Apr.11, 1941 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Mere Gregoire, Madame Andler-Keller by Gustave Courbet January, 1941 BCL 0
Exhibition of British War Posters, by FOUGASSE (Kenneth Bird, Editor of PUNCH) Jan.8-Mar.3, 1941 BCL 0
Harper's Bazaar: Rhode Island School of Design Jan.9-Feb.12, 1941 BCL 0
SAIC: W.P.A. Silk Screen Process Jan.11-Jan.27, 1941 BCL 0
Society for Contemporary American Art 1st Annual Jan.14-Feb.2, 1941 BCL 5341 FF2
SAIC: Delta Phi Delta Pledge Show Zeta Chapter Jan.27-Feb.10, 1941 BCL 0
The Art of Goya: Paintings, Drawings and Prints Jan.30-Mar.4, 1941 2 5341 FF3
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Interpreting Goya: His Art and Its Influence Jan.30-Apr.30, 1941 0 6241 FF1
Paintings by Peppino Mangravite Jan.30-Mar.2, 1941 B 0
The First Century of Printmaking, 1400-1500 Jan.30-Mar.2, 1941 2 5341 FF4
20th Century French Paintings, Paul Rosenberg Collection Jan.30-Mar.2, 1941 0 0
Wall Paper Designs for D. Lorraine Yerkes Feb.1-Feb.15, 1941 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Turquoise Glazed Jar, Rayy, Persia, 13th Century February, 1941 BCL 0
Prints from the Illinois Art Project Feb.6-Apr.27, 1941 0 0
Prints and Drawings by Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt Feb.6-Apr.30, 1941 0 0
SAIC: Art Students League Exhibition Feb.10-Mar.8, 1941 BCL 0
Japanese Prints, Clarence Buckingham Collection Feb.14-Apr.2, 1941 0 0
Original Drawings by Milton Caniff, Tribune Cartoonist Feb.14-Feb.28, 1941 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Annunciation by Jean Perreal, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ryerson Collection March, 1941 BCL 0
Pottery by Franz and Marguerite Wildenhain Mar.1-Apr.27, 1941 0 0
Cartoons by David Low Mar.8-Mar.31, 1941 0 5341 FF6
Various Phases of Art in the Han Dynasty Mar.10-May 1, 1941 0 O
Chicago and Vicinity 45th Annual Mar.11-Apr.1, 1941 3 5341 FF5
The Masterpiece of the Month: Engraved Rummer, Julius and Augusta Rosenwald Collection April, 1941 BCL 0
SAIC: American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter Apr.1-Apr.30, 1941 0 0
SAIC: Delta Phi Delta Apr.1-Apr.19, 1941 BCL 0
Drawings from the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection Apr.2-June 30, 1941 0 0
Japanese Prints from the Clarence Buckingham Collection: Flowers and Birds by Koryusai and Hokusai Apr.4-May 30, 1941 0 0
Masterpieces of French Art Lent by The Louvre, Museums and Collectors of France Apr.10-May 21, 1941 3 5341 FF7a,b
The Art Institute of Chicago and The Fashion Group of Chicago: Contemporary Fashions in the Mood of the 19th c. Apr., 18, 1941 [?] B 0
SAIC: Student Janitors 7th Annual Apr.19-May 16, 1941 BCL 0
Engravings by Jean Duvet and His Contemporaries Apr.23-Oct.1, 1941 0 0
News Photographs by Chicago Tribune Photographers Apr.28-May 19, 1941 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Venus and Mars with Three Graces in a Landscape by Tintoretto, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection May, 1941 BCL 0
SAIC: University of Kansas May 9-May 12, 1941 BCL 0
Loan Collection of Chinese Porcelains May 10-Oct.15, 1941 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Work Done by Children in the Saturday Classes of the Art Institute School May 15-Aug.1, 1941 0 6241 FF2
SAIC: Ceramics of Animals by Vera Topper and Lyman Carpenter at Findlay Galleries May 19-June 2, 1941 0 0
SAIC: Junior Department May 21-June 26, 1941 BCL 0
The Antiquarian Society: European Embroideries of the 16th and 17th Centuries May 22-June 29, 1941 4 0
Portraits of Men and Women Who Made Chicago Great 1891-1941 May 28-Sept.7, 1941 0 5341 FF13
The Masterpiece of the Month: Tandem, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec June, 1941 BCL 0
SAIC: Student Abstraction at Paul Theobald Galleries June, 1941 0 0
School of the Art Institute Annual June 3-June 26, 1941 CL+BCL 0
Society of Contemporary Art: Sculpture by Carl Milles June 5-Sept.28, 1941 1+B 5341 FF8
Japanese Prints of Actors by Shundo, Shunko, Shunjo and Shunyei, Frederick W. Gookin Collection June 5-Oct.15, 1941 0 0
SAIC: Spring Fashion Show June 6, 1941 B 0
Cartoons by Jacob Burck June 27-July 18, 1941 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Uncle and Niece, by Edgar Degas, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection July, 1941 BCL 0
Unpublished Drawings by Odilon Redon July, 1941 0 5341 FF9
International Exhibition of Water Colors 20th Annual July 17-Oct.5, 1941 5 5341 FF10
The Masterpiece of the Month: Yung Lo Bowl, Chinese, Gift of Russell Tyson August, 1941 BCL 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: The Plan of a Painting: An Interpretive Study of Edward Hopper's Manhattan Bridge Loop Aug.5-Sept.30, 1941 0 0
Japanese Screens Aug.15-Oct.15, 1941 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Pair of Wedgwood Vases, Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection September, 1941 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: My Mother by George Bellows, Frank Wadsworth Memorial October, 1941 BCL 0
Symphony and Art: Signac's The Sea at St. Tropez, Debussy's Le Mer Oct.20-Oct.26, 1941 0 5342 FF1
SAIC: Art Students League Exhibition Oct.20-Oct.31, 1941 BCL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Head of Flora by Louis Marin Bonnet, Charles Netcher II Memorial Collection November, 1941 BCL 0
Midwestern Art College Conference Nov.1-Nov.15, 1941 BCL 0
Recent Pottery by Warren A. Gilbertson Nov.15-Dec.29, 1941 0 5341 FF11
Symphony and Art: Leger`s Lithograph, Bartok Concerto for piano and orchestra Nov.17-Nov.23,1941 0 5342 FF1
SAIC: Art Students League Exhibition Nov.22-Dec.6, 1941 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Madonna and Child, by Hans Memling, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection December, 1941 BCL 0
Symphony and Art: Janinet's Color Print, Madame Dugazon, after Hoin, Mozart's Eb Major Symphony Dec.1-Dec.7, 1941 0 0
SAIC: Water Colors by William Fett Dec.6-Dec.31, 1941 0 0
Symphony and Art: Chassereau's Etching, of Othello Series, Tschaikowsky's Symphony after Byron's Manfred Dec.8-Dec.14, 1941 0 5342 FF1
Symphony and Art: F. Barroccio "The Annunciation" Dec.21-Dec.27, 1941 0 5342 FF1
1942
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
Miniature American Rooms by Mrs. James Ward Thorne Dec.6, 1940-Feb.1, 1942 3 0
18 French Impressionist Paintings, lent by Mr. and Mrs.Kurt Riesler July, 1941-Oct., 1942 0 0
Photos from the Chicago Forum on Russian Affairs Dec.22, 1941-Jan.19, 1942 BCL 0
The British Council: Exhibition of British Children's Drawings c. 1941-1942 B 0
Prints in the Making July 26, 1941-Jan.1, 1942 0 0
Unpublished Drawings for the Temptation of St.Anthony by Odilon Redon, lent by Jean Goriany, NY July 26, 1941-Apr.30, 1942 0 0
Textile Masterpieces from the 15th-18th Centuries Sept.10, 1941-Jan.1, 1942 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Pottery: Basic Forms and Methods of Decoration Oct.15, 1941-Jan.19, 1942 0 0
Costumes of Mexico, by Carlos Merida Oct.24, 1941-Jan.1, 1942 0 0
Prints by Ichiryusai Hiroshige, Clarence Buckingham Collection Oct.28, 1941-Feb.1, 1942 0 0
American Paintings and Sculpture 52nd Annual Oct.30, 1941-Jan.4, 1942 3 5341 FF14
Various Phases of the Art of the Han Dynasty Nov.1, 1941-Feb.2, 1942 0 0
Drawings from the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection Nov.1, 1941-Feb.1, 1942 0 0
Prints from the Clarence Buckingham Collection Nov.1, 1941-Feb.1, 1942 0 0
Drawings and Ethcings by Charles Meryon Dec.1, 1941-Mar.1, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Beardsley's La Morte d'Arthur, Griffes' Kubla Khan Dec.29, 1941-Jan.4, 1942 0 0
Memorial to Frederick A.Stock (Portrait by L. Seyffert) 1942 0 5342 FF13
The Masterpiece of the Month: Gilt Bronze Wine Jar, Chinese, Han Dynasty, Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection January, 1942 BCL 0
Symphony and Art: Max Kahn's Color Lithograph, Dvorak's Symphony No.5 Jan.5-Jan.11, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, Maillol's Woodcut Daphnis et Chloe Jan.12-Jan.18, 1942 0 0
Society for Contemporary American Art 2nd Annual Jan.13-Feb.3, 1942 CL+BCL 0
Gifts of the Print and Drawing Club to the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Art Institute Jan.13-Feb.11, 1942 0 0
Drawings by Gene Frances Jan.13-Feb.11, 1942 0 0
Society of Decorators Prize Winning Drawings, 1942 Jan.14-Jan.26, 1942 BCL 0
SAIC: Rubbings lent by Warren Gilbertson Jan.19-Jan.26, 1942 BCL 0
Newspaper Sketches by Quiz Kid Cynthia Cline Jan.19-Feb.16, 1942 BCL 0
Symphony and Art: Tschaikowsky's Pathetic Symphony, Descourtis' aquatint Jan.19-Jan.27, 1942 0 5342 FF1
Works by Henri Rousseau Jan.22-Feb.23, 1942 2 5342 FF3
Contemporary Ceramics of the Western Hemisphere Jan.22-Feb.23, 1942 2 5342 FF4
Paintings by Karl Knaths Jan.22-Feb.23, 1942 3 5342 FF2
Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects: Exhibition of Architecture Jan.22-Feb.23, 1942 BCL 0
SAIC: Art Students League Jan.23-Feb.16, 1942 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Crucifixion by Carlo Crivelli, Wirt D. Walker Collection February, 1942 BCL 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Archaeological Designs of the Chorotegan Indians of Central America ,by Dr. David Sequeira Feb.2-Mar.30, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Gliere's Third Symphony, Francisco Goya's print Fear Feb.2-Feb.8, 1942 0 5342 FF1
Japanese Prints: 36 Views of Fugi by Katsushika Hokusai, Clarence Buckingham Collection Feb.9-Apr.30, 1942 0 0
Chinese Costumes and Accessories Feb.9-Sept.30, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Chavez Program, Orozco's Women on Rocks Feb.9-Feb.15, 1942 0 5342 FF1
Portraits of Whistler, Walter Brewster Collection of Whistleriana Feb.15-May 1, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Cadman's Symphony No.1, Chapin's lithograph Feb.16-Feb.22, 1942 0 5342 FF1
SAIC: Art Students League Defense Show and Auction for Red Cross Feb.16-Feb.20, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Hindemith's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Klee's lithograph Feb.23-Mar.1, 1942 0 5342 FF1
SAIC: Delta Phi Delta Exhibition Feb.23-Mar. 9, 1942 0 0
Francis Chapin, Adolf Dehn, Boardman Robinson Feb.27-Mar.30, 1942 0 5342 FF15 (Robinson)
Recent Accessions Feb., 1942 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Annunciation, Tapestry in Wool, Silk, and Gold Thread, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ryerson Collection March, 1942 BCL 0
Art Directors Club of Chicago: Exhibition of Advertising Art in 1942 Mar.9-Mar.31, 1942 1+B 0
Symphony and Art: Bach's B Minor Mass, Rembrandt's The Agony in the Garden Mar.9-Mar.16, 1942 0 0
Chicago and Vicinity 46th Annual Mar.12-Apr.26, 1942 3 5342 FF6
American Needlework of the 18th and 19th Centuries Mar.12-July 1, 1942 0 0
Porcelain Figures of the 18th Century Mar.12-Sept.30, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Poulenc's Concerto D Minor, Le Corbusier's Drawing Mar.17-Mar.24, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Smetana's Overture "Bartered Bride" and Bylina's "The Hunt" Mar.23-Mar.30, 1942 0 0
Illustrations by Adrian Troy Mar.25-Apr.30, 1942 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Portrait of a Lady by Antonio Moro: Charles Hutchinson Memorial April, 1942 BCL 0
SAIC: Delta Phi Delta Exhibition Apr.1-Apr.15, 1942 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: The Art of Weaving Apr.2-May 25, 1942 0 0
Art in War: American Artists' Record of War and Defense Apr.3-May 3, 1942 BCL 0
Symphony and Art: Tavares' Concerto in Brazilian Form, Paz Perez's Woodcut Apr.6-Apr.12, 1942 0 0
SAIC: Russian War Posters (School Lobby) Apr.8-Apr.14, 1942 BCL 0
Latin-American Art in Celebration of Pan-American Week Apr.12-Apr.19, 1942 0 0
Russian War Posters (Blackstone Hall) Apr.14-Apr.18, 1942 BCL 0
SAIC: Symphony Orchestra Sketches Apr.16-Apr.27, 1942 0 0
SAIC: Student Janitors' Show 7th Annual Apr.18-Apr.29, 1942 0 0
Symphony and Art: Toulouse-Lautrec's Lithograph The Composer, Desire Dihau, Playing Bassoon Apr.20-Apr.26, 1942 0 0
American Academy in Rome Competition Paintings Apr.27-May 2,. 1942 0 0
Student Janitor Show 7th Annual (Blackstone Hall) Apr.29-May 15, 1942 BCL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: St. Jerome Reading in an Italian Landscape, by Rembrandt May, 1942 BCL 0
Lithograph and Woodcut Printed in Color, by Edvard Munch, John Wrenn Memorial Collection May , 1942 0 0
Young Chicago Art by the James Nelson Raymond Classes May 2-May 19, 1942 2+B 0
Auction for Navy Relief Society May 2, 1942 0 0
Chinese Prints from the Martin Ryerson Collection May 5-Sept.30, 1942 0 0
International Exhibition of Water Colors 21st Annual May 14-Aug.23, 1942 3 5342 FF1
SAIC: Art Students League May 16-May 30, 1942 BCL 0
Society for Contemporary American Art: 3 Painters and their Work: Nicola Ziroli, Copeland C. Burg, Julio de Diego (private showing) May 19, 1942 1 0
Sale of Hand-Blocked Textiles for Red Cross May 19-May 31, 1942 BCL 0
Work by Edgar Britton (Auction) May 29-June 8, 1942 0 0
Photographs of the Civil War and the American Frontier May 29-July 15, 1942 0 0
Prints and Drawings in Celebration of National Maritime Day -June, 1942 0 0
Photographs by the Staff of the Chicago Sun June 10-June 24, 1942 BCL 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: 3733 High School Students Look at Paintings June 1-Sept.1, 1942 0 6242
The Masterpiece of the Month: L'Estaque by Paul Cezanne, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ryerson Collection June, 1942 BCL 0
Room of Chicago Art: Leon Garland June 17-July 12, 1942 BCL 5342 FF14
SAIC: Work by Members of the Summer School Faculty June 25-July14, 1942 BCL 0
95th Anniversary Commemoration Exhibit of the Chicago Tribune June 28-July 19, 1942 BCL 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Architect's Desk, Walnut Veneer and Inlay, English, 18th Century July, 1942 BCL 0
Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Herrmann and Briggs Dyer July 16-Aug.9, 1942 BCL 0
A Tour through London and Paris from the 17th c. to the present in the Department of Prints and Drawings Summer, 1942 0 0
Verre de Nevers, Glass Figurines from 18th C.-19th C., Mrs. Potter Palmer Collection Summer, 1942 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Porcelain Vase, Chinese, K'ang Hsi Period August, 1942 BCL 0
Room of Chicago Art: Charles W. Dahlgreen and Joseph Gualtieri Aug.13-Sept.7, 1942 BCL 5342 FF16 (Gualtieri)
Compositional Drawings Aug.14-Nov.1, 1942 0 0
Between Heaven and Earth: Prints in the Redecorated Buckingham Gallery Fall, 1942 0 0
Photographs by Gjon Mili: The Dance in Movement Fall, 1942 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer by John Singer Sargent September, 1942 BCL 0
School of the Art Institute Annual Sept.3-Oct.4, 1942 0 0
Work by Students of the Summer School Adult Classes Sept.3-Oct.4, 1942 0 0
Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Raymond Breinin and Joseph Vavak Sept.10-Oct.4, 1942 BCL 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Children in England Paint Sept.15-Oct. 27, 1942 0 0
Art in War: Paintings by Barse Miller Sept.24-Nov.1, 1942 0 0
Drawings and Illustrations by Susanne Suba Sept.25-Nov.15, 1942 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Toilet by Mary Cassatt October, 1942 BCL 0
Masterpiece of Craftsmanship from Medieval Church Treasuries Oct.1-Nov.30, 1942 0 0
Room of Chicago Art : Paintings by Felix Ruvolo and Nicola Ziroli Oct.8-Nov.1, 1942 BCL 5342 FF8
American Paintings and Sculpture 53rd Annual and Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Grant Wood Oct.29-Dec.10, 1942 3 5342 FF11
The Masterpiece of the Month: Garden of Paradise by Hieronymus Bosch, Robert Alexander Waller Memorial Collection November, 1942 BCL 0
SAIC: Work by George Mendenhall and Kurt Ekdhal, Instructors in Design Dept. November, 1942 BCL 0
Chicago Dance Council: The Dance- In Movement, Photographs by Gjon Mili Nov.4-Nov.25, 1942 BCL 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Salcia Bahnc and Julio de Diego Nov.5-Nov.29, 1942 BCL 5342 FF10
Art in War: Life in the Service Nov.6-Dec.6, 1942 0 0
Great Dutch Masters of the 17th Century Nov.18-Dec.30, 1942 1+B 5342 FF12a. Oversize photos. Box 5
Masterpiece of the Month: The Bathers by Cezanne, gift of R. R. McCormick December, 1942 BCL 0
Recent Accessions from the Robert R. McCormick Collection December, 1942 0 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Studies for the St. Louis Post Office Murals Executed by Edward Millman and Mitchell Siporin Dec.7-Dec.27, 1942 0 0
1943
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
Velvets and Brocades of the 15th and 16th Centuries, lent by Dikran Kelekian, Inc., NY Sept.1, 1942-Spring, 1943 0 0
Dress Materials and Designs of the 19th Century Sept.15, 1942-Spring, 1943 0 0
Chinese Rubbings of Stone Sculptures of the Han Dynasty Oct.5, 1942-Jan.3, 1943 0 0
Near Eastern Embroideries, lent by Burton Y. Berry Oct.5, 1942-Mar.28, 1943 0 0
Woodcuts by Max Weber Oct.16, 1942-Jan.1, 1943 0 5342 FF9
American Furniture of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Phillip Young Collection Oct.20, 1942-Apr.20, 1943 0 0
Dutch Prints: Rembrandt and His Predecessors Nov.17, 1942-Feb.1, 1943 0 0
Abstractions by Charles Smith Nov.16, 1942-Feb.15, 1943 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: The Background of Dutch Art Nov.17, 1942-Feb.1, 1943 0 6243
Art in War: Water Colors of the Navy by Vernon Howe Bailey Dec.11, 1942-Jan.10, 1943 0 5343 FF14
The Room of Chicago Art: Abstractions by 8 Chicago Artists Dec.31, 1942-Jan.24, 1943 0 5343 FF8
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Buffalo Herd by Fan Tzu-min, Chinese Scroll Painting, Early Ming Dynasty January, 1943 BCL 0
Mural Paintings from the Cave Temples of India in Replica by Sarkis Katchadourin Jan.4-Feb.15, 1943 1 0
Art in War: Camouflage for Civilian Defense Jan.15-Feb.14, 1943 0 0
Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe Jan.21-Feb.22, 1943 3 5343 FF1
Religious Folk Art of the Spanish Southwest, lent by Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs Jan.21-Feb.22, 1943 0 5343 FF10
Recent Additions to the Painting Collection Jan.21-Feb.22, 1943 0 0
Recent Additions to the Print and Drawing Collection Jan.21-Feb.22, 1943 0 0
Recent Additions to the Water Color Collection Jan.21-Feb.22, 1943 0 0
SAIC: 59 Posters by the Advanced Design Class Jan.27-Feb.24, 1943 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: An Angel by an Italian Sculptor of the Studio of Verrocchio, Martin Ryerson Collection February, 1943 BCL 0
62 Photographs of Animals by David Eisendrath Feb.1-Feb.30, 1943 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: The World at War through the Eyes of Children Feb.4-Apr.1, 1943 0 0
Silhouette Portraits of the Early 19th Century Feb.6-, 1943 0 0
European 18th c. Porcelains Winter, 1943 0 0
Prints by Eugene Delacroix Feb.16-Apr.15, 1943 0 0
Photographs by Clarence John Laughlin Feb.19-Apr.19, 1943 0 0
The Society for Contemporary American Art 3rd Annual Feb.20-Mar.14, 1943 CL 0
Art Directors Club: Advertising Art Exhibition, 1943 Mar.1-Mar.31, 1943 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: The Annunciation, Etching and Engraving by Federigo Baroccio, Joseph Brooks Fair Collection March, 1943 BCL 0
Chinese Rubbings from Sculptures of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties and 19th Century Chinese Paintings, Harley F. MacNair and Florence Ayscough Collections Mar.10-May 30, 1943 0 0
Chicago and Vicinity 47th Annual Mar.11-Apr.25, 1943 3 5343 FF2
Silk Screen Goes to War Mar.13-Apr.10, 1943 0 0
Art in War: Paintings by James Sessions Mar.19-Apr.18, 1943 0 0
Road to Victory: A Procession of Photographs of the Nation at War Apr.1-May 2, 1943 1 5343 FF3
Prints by Stanley Hayter Apr.3-May 30, 1943 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Emotional Design in Painting Apr.5-May 5, 1943 0 0
School of the Art Insitute Annual Apr.11-May 11, 1943 BCL 0
Paintings by Hsu Ku and Jen Po-nien, Florence Aysough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair Collections Apr.15-Aug.30, 1943 0 0
Photographs by Walter Peterhans Apr.19-June 7, 1943 0 0
Art Student's League: Exhibition by New Members Apr.22-May 10, 1943 BCL 0
American Glass Spring, 1943 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Education of Cupid by Titian, Charles and Mary Worcester Collection May, 1943 BCL 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Malcolm Hackett and Michael Ursulescu May 12-June 10, 1943 0 0
International Exhibition of Water Colors 22nd Annual May 13-Aug.22, 1943 4 5343 FF11
Gallery of Art Interpretation: The Art of Fresco Painting May 13-Dec.12, 1943 0 0
SAIC: Work from the Abstract Painting Class May 14-June, 1943 BCL 0
Art in War: Work by Chicago Public School Children May 20-July 5, 1943 0 5343 FF4
SAIC: Work by Students May 27-June 14, 1943 0 0
Etchings and Drypoints by Henri Matisse May 31-Sept.21, 1943 0 0
Drawings of the 19th and 20th Centuries -June 10, 1943 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Punch Pot, English, Staffordshire June, 1943 BCL 0
Prints by Edouard Manet June 7-Nov.1, 1943 0 0
Photographs without a Camera: Drawings and Photograms by George Kepes June 11-Sept.15, 1943 0 5343 FF5
SAIC: Members of Summer School Faculty June 11-Aug.2, 1943 0 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings and Sculpture by Negro Artists June 17-Aug.8, 1943 0 0
Quilts and Quilting by Mrs. Bertha Stenge June 24-Sept.26, 1943 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Chinese Bronze Fu, 5th-3rd Century B.C., Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection July, 1943 BCL 0
Art in War: The Fort Custer Army Illustrators July 8-Oct.10, 1943 0 5343 FF13
The Masterpiece of the Month: The Water Mill with the Great Red Roof by Meindert Hobbema August, 1943 BCL 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Copeland C. Burg and David Bekker Aug.12-Sept.19, 1943 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Te Atua by Paul Gauguin September, 1943 BCL 0
School of the Art Institute Annual: Extension of Show Sept.2-Oct.3, 1943 1 0
SAIC: Exhibition by Faculty Sept.13-Nov.15, 1943 BCL 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by T. A.Hoyer and Julia Thecla Sept.23-Oct.28, 1943 0 5343 FF12
Paintings by Professor Chang Shu-Chi of Chungking, China Sept.23-Oct.23, 1943 3 0
Photographs by Lisette Model Sept.24-Nov.22, 1943 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: A Gentleman of Florence, Painting by Ridolfo Ghirlandajo, Martin Ryerson Collection October, 1943 BCL 0
Prints by Edvard Munch and James Ensor Oct.8-Nov.22, 1943 0 5343 FF6
Art in War: Water Colors by Thornton Oakley Oct.15-Dec.19, 1943 0 0
American Paintings and Sculpture 54th Annual Oct.28-Dec.12, 1943 3 5343 FF7
The Masterpiece of the Month: Silver Tazza, English, 1659 November, 1943 BCL 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Eleanor Coen and Max Kahn Nov.4-Dec.5, 1943 0 0
Library: Exhibition of Buildings in Wisconsin: Octagonal-Hexagonal-Round, Photographs by Anthony Wuchterl Nov.10-Nov.29, 1943 BCL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Madonna and Child with St. Dominic and St. Hyacinth, by GiambattistaTiepolo, Ryerson Collection December, 1943 BCL 0
School Children's Christmas Fair Dec.1-Dec.15, 1943 0 0
1944
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
The Discovery of Landscape Mar.26, 1943-Apr.1, 1944 0 0
20th Century French Paintings, Chester Dale Collection Apr.28, 1943-1944 0 5344 FF4
15th and 16th c. Sculpture in Bronze and Wood, lent by Dr. Ernst Wittman Fall, 1943-1944 CL 0
Recent Accessions to the Textile Collection Sept.15, 1943-Mar.10, 1944 0 0
The "How" of Woven Textiles Oct.7, 1943-Jan.10, 1944 0 0
European Costume Shawls Oct.7, 1943-May 17, 1944 0 0
Antique Shawls from Persia and India Oct.21, 1943-June 30, 1944 0 5344 FF1
Recent Gifts and Loans to the Oriental Dept. Nov.2, 1943-Mar.24, 1944 0 0
SAIC: Art Student's League Annual: Paintings and Drawings Nov.18, 1943-Jan.10, 1944 BCL 0
Lithographs and Drawings by Max Kahn Nov.26, 1943-Jan.9 1944 0 0
Staffordshire Figurines and Toby Jugs Nov.8, 1943-Oct.2, 1944 0 5343 FF9
SAIC: Art Student's League Annual: Decorative Arts Dec.7, 1943-Jan.10, 1944 BCL 0
Work by Convalescent Army and Navy Men from the Gardiner General Hospital, Chicago Beach and the US Naval Hospital at Great Lakes Dec.9, 1943-Jan.9, 1944 0 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Fritzi Brod, Joshua Kaganove, Alice Mason and Dan Palumbo Dec.9, 1943-Jan.30, 1944 0 0
Folk Woodcuts from Poland Dec.10, 1943-Jan.2, 1944 0 0
Photographs by Alvarez Bravo Dec.10, 1943-Jan.16, 1944 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Bali: Background to War Dec.17, 1943-Jan.30, 1944 CL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: The Glazed Pottery Horse,T'ang Dynasty, Russel Tyson Collection January, 1944 BCL 0
Speak Their Language: An Exhibition of British and American Cartoons Jan.8-Jan.20, 1944 0 0
Art in War: Paintings of America at War Commissioned for LIFE Jan.13-Feb.20, 1944 0 5344 FF5
Photographs by Franz Lipp Jan.19-Feb.14, 1944 0 0
Chicago and Vicinity 48th Annual Jan.27-Mar.5, 1944 4 5344 FF7
Rococo: Prints before the French Revolution Jan.28-Sept.15, 1944 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Still Life with Carp by Edouard Manet, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial February, 1944 BCL 0
Recent Accession: St. Margaret Feb.1-, 1944 0 0
Society for Contemporary American Art 4th Annual Feb.9-Mar.26, 1944 CL 0
Drawings and Lithographs by George Bellows Feb.18-Sept.15, 1944 0 0
Art in War: Life at Great Lakes, Paintings by Pharmacist's Mate Richard Bergere Feb.24-Apr.2, 1944 0 5343 FF14
Color Woodcuts by Louis Schanker Feb.25-Apr.17, 1944 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: St. George's Day Fair, Etching and Engraving By Pieter Bruegel, John Wrenn Memorial Collection March, 1944 BCL 0
Fashions of the 7 American Wars Mar.6-Apr.3, 1944 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Brazil Builds Mar.10-Apr.21, 1944 0 0
The Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Private Don Mundt and Sculpture by Mario C. Ubaldi Mar.30-May 7, 1944 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Pieta by Gerard David April, 1944 BCL 0
Mural Paintings from the Cave Temples of India in Replica by Sarkis Katchadourian Apr.1-May 31, 1944 0 0
Art Directors' Club of Chicago: Advertising Art Apr.10-May 7, 1944 1 0
The Art of Jose Guadalupe Posada, lent by the Department of Fine Arts of Mexico Apr.13-May 14, 1944 2 5344 FF3a,b
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Who Is Posada? Apr.13-May 14, 1944 0 6244 FF1
Portraiture and Allegory in the Medals and Plaquettes of the Renaissance from the Sigmund Morgenroth Collection Apr.13-May 14, 1944 1 0
Art in War: Paintings of Naval Aviation Apr.26-May 30, 1944 1 5344 FF8
Masterpiece of the Month: Paul Revere Teapot May, 1944 BCL 0
Room of Chicago Art: Gertrude Abercrombie and Harold Noecker May 11-June 18, 1944 0 0
Prints by Georges Rouault May 12-Sept.15, 1944 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Drawing of a Courtyard of a Building in Ruins, by Canaletto June, 1944 BCL 0
55th Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings June 8-Aug. 20, 1944 2 5344 FF6
Etchings by Edward Hopper June 16-Sept.15, 1944 0 0
Room of Chicago Art: Water Colors by Rowena Fryand Ethel Spears June 22-July 23, 1944 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Close-Up of Tintoretto June 29-Oct.29, 1944 0 6244 FF2
Masterpiece of the Month: "Edith Cavell", by George Bellows July, 1944 0 0
Room of Chicago Art: Charles Biesel and J. Jeffrey Grant July 27-Sept.10, 1944 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Chasuble, Cut Velvet in Five Colors, Italian, mid-15th C. August, 1944 BCL 0
School of the Art Institute Annual Aug.31-Oct.1, 1944 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Portrait of Lodovico Madruzzo by Giovanni Battista Moroni, Charles and Mary Worcester Collection September, 1944 BCL 0
Room of Chicago Art: Water Colors and Drawings by Kenneth Becker and Paintings and Ceramics by David Seyler Sept.14-Oct.22, 1944 0 0
The Masterpiece of the Month: Chinese Emperor's Robe Showing 12 Imperial Symbols October, 1944 BCL 0
The City: Organism and Artifact Oct.10-Dec.19, 1944 0 0
Water Colors and Drawings by Winslow Homer Oct.14-Dec.4, 1944 0 0
Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Margo Hoff and George Buehr Oct.26-Dec.3, 1944 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Madonna and Child, Polychromed Stucco Relief, Sienese, late 15th C., Martin Ryerson Collection December, 1944 BCL 5344 FF9
The Army at War: A Graphic Record by American Artists Dec.18-Dec.28, 1944 1 0



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