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Exhibition History of The Art Institute, 1950-1954

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1950
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Space and Distance Apr.12, 1948-Jan., 1950 0 6248
European Rooms in Miniature by Mrs. James Ward Thorne July 15, 1949-June 27, 1950 0 0
Prints by Paul Gauguin Oct.1, 1949-Jan.29, 1950 0 0
Marc Chagall: Illustrations for Gogol's Dead Souls Oct.7, 1949-Jan.15, 1950 0 0
Alfred Stieglitz Collection Nov.9, 1949-Jan.1, 1950 0 0
Woodcuts by Paul Gauguin Nov., 1949-Jan.15, 1950 0 0
Snow Views by Japanese Print Artists of the Ukiyo-e School Dec.14, 1949-Jan.29, 1950 0 0
Chinese Ming Blue and White Porcelains Dec.21, 1949-Feb.5, 1950 2 0
Italian and Spanish Textiles of the Middle Ages Dec.6, 1949-Mar.6, 1950 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Japanese Buddhist Triptych of the Kamakura Period January, 1950 BCL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Garden of the House at Saint-Remy, Vincent van Gogh February, 1950 BCL 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: van Gogh, Artist Feb.-Oct., 1950 0 6250 FF1
The Arts of the Watchmakers and Goldsmiths of the 17th-19th Centuries, Harry H. Blum Collection Feb.-Dec.26, 1950 0 0
Chinese Frescoes of Northern Sung Feb.1-Mar.19, 1950 0 0
Vincent van Gogh Feb.1-Apr.16, 1950 2 5350 FF1
Prints by Stanley Hayter and the Atelier 17 Group Feb.10-Mar.5, 1950 0 0
Recent Accessions Feb.17-May 21, 1950 0 0
Rare Toulouse-Lautrec Prints and Posters, donated by Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Mar.1-Apr.30, 1950 0 0
Vera Berdich Mar.10-Apr.23, 1950 0 0
Society of Typographic Arts 23rd Annual Mar.11-Apr.9, 1950 1 0
Actor Prints Mar.25-May 7, 1950 0 0
Handwoven Fabrics Apr.6-May 15, 1950 0 0
Printed Cotton Fabrics of the 18th and 19th Centuries Apr.6-Oct.16, 1950 0 0
Erich Mueller-Kraus Apr.28-June 11, 1950 0 0
Recent Additions to the Carter H. Harrison Collection -Apr.30, 1950 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Cut Velvet Cope with Silver Brocading May, 1950 BCL 0
Carpet of Queen Mary of England May 7-May 11, 1950 0 5350 FF2
The R.T. Crane, Jr. Memorial May 10-, 1950 0 0
Society for Contemporary American Art 10th Annual May 16-June 4, 1950 CL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Ruin of Egmont by Ruisdael June, 1950 BCL 0
Chicago and Vicinity 54th Annual June 1-July 30, 1950 2 5350 FF3
Kate L. Brewster Bequest June 13-Fall, 1950 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Chinese Scroll Painting by Hsia Ch'ang, Kate Buckingham Collection July, 1950 BCL 0
Saint Peter Denying Christ, by Rembrandt July 1-Sept.15, 1950 0 0
Two 12th Century Nigerian Bronze Heads July 15-Sept.1, 1950 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month:The Hanging of Judas, glass panel, Austrian, ca. 1520 April, 1950 BCL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Woman before an Aquarium by Henri Matisse September, 1950 BCL 0
School of the Art Institute 72nd Annual Sept.1-Oct.1, 1950 0 0
Andre Masson Sept.29-Dec.1, 1950 0 0
Survey of Prints of the 19th and 20th Centuries -Sept.24 - Nov., 1950 0 0
Prints by Honore Daumier Sept.-Oct.8, 1950 0 0
Japanese Landscape Prints Sept.-Oct.31, 1950 0 0
American Rooms in Miniature by Mrs. James Ward Thorne Sept., 1950- 0 0
French Color Prints of the 18th Century Sept., 1950- 0 0
Selected Prints by Early Masters Sept., 1950 0 0
Photographs by Dr. Marcel Sternberger Oct.13-Nov.26, 1950 0 0
Recent Accessions -Nov.5, 1950 0 0
Art Director's Club: Advertising Art 18th Annual Nov.7-Nov.21, 1950 2 0
In Wind and Rain Nov.3-Dec.17, 1950 0 0
1951
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
Stoneware and Earthenware of the Renaissance.The Former Bondy Collection in Vienna Oct.5, 1950-Apr.9, 1951 0 0
Masterpieces of Art from Vienna: Paintings, Tapestries, Armor, Sculpture, Gold and Precious Objects Nov.9, 1950-Jan.18, 1951 2 5351 FF1a,b,c
Handwoven Fabrics Nov.22, 1950-Jan.1, 1951 0 0
Japanese Screens Nov.15, 1950-, 1951 0 0
National Amateur Photographic Exhibition Dec.8, 1950-Jan.1, 1951 0 0
Torii Kiyonaga Dec.20, 1950-Feb.4, 1951 0 0
Contemporary Liturgical Objects Jan.3-Feb.1, 1951 0 0
Drawings Recently Acquired for the David Adler Collection Jan.18-Oct., 1951 0 0
The Travelers Insurance Co.: Currier and Ives Prints Jan.22-Mar.24, 1951 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: How Real is Realism? Jan.24-, 1951 0 6251
Masterpiece of the Month: Judgement of Solomon by Master FvB February, 1951 BCL 0
Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer -Feb., 1951 0 0
Prints and Drawings of the Ballet -Feb.18, 1951 0 0
Okumura Masanobu Feb.22-Apr.9, 1951 0 0
Turkish and Greek Island Embroideries from the Collection of Burton Y. Berry Feb.22-Apr.1, 1951 0 5351 FF9
Masterpiece of the Month: Desk,Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1740 March, 1951 BCL 0
Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today Mar.15-May 13, 1951 2 5351 FF2a,b
Society of Typographic Arts 24th Exhibition Mar.16-Apr.15, 1951 1 0
Chinese Furniture -Apr.22, 1951 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: La Toilette, by Mary Cassatt April, 1951 BCL 0
Chinese Ceremonial Bronzes Apr.-, 1951 0 0
Society for Contemporary American Art 11th Annual Apr.11-May 6, 1951 CL 5351 FF3
Contemporary Embroidery Apr.17-May15, 1951 0 0
Introduction to the Print Collection Apr.20-Oct., 1951 0 0
Photographs by Harry Callahan Apr.23-May 31, 1951 0 0
Woodcuts by Jacob Steinhardt Apr.29-May 28, 1951 1 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Agitation, by Honore Daumier May, 1951 BCL 0
Japanese Woodcuts by Contemporary Artists May 1-Oct.31, 1951 0 5351 FF8
Edvard Munch Retrospective May 8-June 10, 1951 1 0
Chicago and Vicinity 55th Annual May 31-July 8, 1951 3 5351 FF7
Masterpiece of the Month: Sculptured Wood Finial of the Eastern Chou Dynasty, the Nickerson Collecton June, 1951 BCL 0
Alfred Stieglitz June 16-July 31, 1951 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Ewer and Rosewater Dish, by Franz Dotte, German, ca. 1600, Buckingham Collection July, 1951 BCL 0
Yellowstone Park: A Photographic Interpretation by Franz Lipp July 19-Aug.19, 1951 0 5351 FF6
Masterpiece of the Month: Giambattista Tiepolo's Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo August, 1951 BCL 0
School of the Art Institute Annual Aug.30-Sept.30, 1951 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Autumn Mountains, Scroll by Wen Cheng-Ming September, 1951 BCL 0
Photographs by Berenice Abbott Sept.5-Oct.31, 1951 0 5351 FF5
Masterpiece of the Month: Italian Landscape by Claude Lorrain, David Adler Collection October, 1951 BCL 0
Misch Kohn Oct.19-Dec.2, 1951 0 0
Contemporary Folk Art in Japan Oct.23-Dec.9, 1951 0 0
American Painting and Sculpture 60th Annual Oct.25-Dec.16, 1951 2 5351 FF4
Masterpiece or the Month: Bronze Bust of an Old Woman by Giovanni Montorsoli November, 1951 BCL 0
Woodcuts by Koryusai Nov.5-Dec.16, 1951 0 0
Recent Additions: Chinese Paintings Nov.15-, 1951 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Madonna and Child by Meliore Toscano December, 1951 BCL 0
1952
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
French, Spanish and Italian Etchers of the 17th Century Sept. 1951-Feb.29, 1952 0 0
Photographs by Ansel Adams Nov.20, 1951-Jan.5, 1952 2 0
Chinese Paintings from the Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair Collection Dec.14,1951-Apr.1, 1952 0 0
Prints by Venetian Artists of the 18th c. Dec.15, 1951-Mar.5, 1952 0 0
Landscape Prints Dec.19, 1951-Jan.31, 1952 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Two Bird and Flower Panels in K'o ssu, Ming Dynasty January, 1952 BCL 0
Photographs by Eliot Elisofon Jan.15-Mar.1, 1952 0 0
Micro-Color Details of Medieval Textiles by Clarence Buckignham Mitchell Jan.16-Feb.26, 1952 0 0
Drawings by Evelyn Statsinger -Feb.24, 1952 0 0
American Silks, 1830-1850 -Feb.26, 1952 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Houses in the Court by Pierre Bonnard February, 1952 BCL 0
Original Pottery by Jade Snow Wong Feb.1-Mar.9, 1952 0 0
Etchings by Rembrandt Feb.1-Dec., 1952 0 0
Retrospective of the Work of Paul Cezanne Feb.7-Mar.16, 1952 3 5352 FF1
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Paul Cezanne Explanatory Exhibition Feb.7-Mar.16, 1952 0 6252
Goldsmith Work of the Renaissance Feb.10, 1951-June 30, 1952 0 0
Monotypes and Drawings by Zeke Ziner Feb.29-Apr.13, 1952 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Side Table, English, 1730 March, 1952 BCL 0
Lithographs by Emerson Woelffer Mar. 7-Apr.20, 1952 0 0
Photography by Clarence John Laughlin Mar.15-Apr.30, 1952 0 0
Society of Typographic Arts 25th Annual Mar.15-Apr.27, 1952 1 5352 FF4
Japanese Prints Mar.21-May 11, 1952 0 0
Henri Matisse Apr.1-May 4, 1952 2 5352 FF2
Chinese Textiles of the Ch'ing Dynasty Apr.4-May 26, 1952 0 0
Art In Your Life: Art from the AIC, on Display in Department Stores on State St. and Michigan Ave. Apr.14-May, 1952 CL 0
Etchings by Rufino Silva Apr.18-May 18, 1952 0 0
Prints by June Wayne and Inez Johnston Apr.25-May 25, 1952 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: The Flagellation, School of Mantegna May, 1952 BCL 0
Arts of Ancient Peru, Edward Gaffron Collection May 6-Sept.30, 1952 0 0
Society for Contemporary American Art 12th Annual May 7-June 8, 1952 0 0
Photographs by Edward Weston May 15-June 30, 1952 CL 0
Contemporary Prints May 15-Sept.28, 1952 0 0
Chicago and Vicinity 56th Annual May 31-July 13, 1952 2 5352 FF6
Prints by Jacques Villon May 23-Sept.30, 1952 0 0
Prints by James Ensor May 31-Sept.30, 1952 0 0
Classical Antiquity in Prints May 31-Sept. 30, 1952 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Chinese Porcelain Vase, Sung Dynasty, gift of Russel Tyson June, 1952 BCL 0
Photographs by Sanford Roth July 7-Sept.1, 1952 0 0
Recent Accessions June 17-Dec.14., 1952 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Tureen and Stand, Faience, Paris, ca. 1750 July, 1952 BCL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: The Millinery Shop, by Degas August, 1952 BCL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Bronze Figure of a Boy, India, late 13th C.,the Nickerson Collection September, 1952 0 0
School of the Art Institute Annual Sept.1-Sept.30, 1952 0 0
50 Photographs by Wallace Kirkland, LIFE Magazine Photographer Sept.12-Nov.1, 1952 3 5352 FF5
Masterpiece of the Month: Ruins of A Courtyard, by Canaletto October, 1952 BCL 0
Contemporary Japanese Prints -Oct.26, 1952 0 0
Contemporary Drawings from 12 Countries Oct.23-Dec.14, 1952 2 5352 FF3, 3a
Masterpiece of the Month: Fruit and Flowers, by Zurbaran November, 1952 BCL 0
Actor Prints Nov.1-Dec.14, 1952 0 0
Photographs by Yousuf Karsh Nov.15-Dec.31, 1952 CL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Madonna, by Minelli dei Bardi, Early 16th C. December, 1952 BCL 0
1953
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
Treasures of Ancient Peruvian Art Apr.15, 1952-1953 0 0
Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection of Archaic Chinese Jades May 2, 1952-1953 0 0
American Folk Art: Children's Furniture and Toys Sept., 1952-1953 0 0
Woodcuts by Torii Kiyonaga, 1752-1815 Dec.19, 1952-Feb.8, 1953 0 0
Turkish and Italian Velvets Jan.15-Mar.15, 1953 0 0
Photographs by Brett Weston Jan.15-Mar.1, 1953 0 0
Sculpture of the 20th Century Jan.22-Mar.8, 1953 1 5353 FF1
English Delftware of the 17th and 18th Century from Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Warren Baker Feb.5-, 1953 0 0
Landscape Prints by Japanese Artists Feb.20-Apr.19, 1953 0 0
Photographs by Gordon Parks Mar.13-May 1, 1953 CL 0
Society of Typographic Arts 26th Annual Mar. 28-May 3, 1953 0 0
Drawings from PUNCH Apr.1-Apr.30, 1953 2 0
Fernand Leger: A Survey of His Art Apr.2-May 17, 1953 2 5353 FF2
German Prints Before 1500 -May 31, 1953 0 0
Accessions in Photography Department (Photographs in the Peabody Fund) May 15-July 1, 1953 CL 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Annunciation, by Alessandro Vittoria June-Sept.14, 1953 BCL 0
Society for Contemporary American Art 13th Annual June 3-June 28, 1953 CL 5353 FF3
Photographs by Carlotta Corpron July 11-Sept.1, 1953 CL 0
Paintings by Tseng Yu-ho July 15-Sept.1, 1953 0 0
Photographs in Color by Eliot Porter Sept.15-Nov.1, 1953 0 0
Masterpieces of Japanese Art Sept.15-Oct.15, 1953 3 5353 FF4a,b,c
Masterpiece of the Month: Snowstorm and Avalanche in Val d'Aosta, by Turner Oct.16-Nov.30, 1953 BCL 0
Drawings by Mrs. Hannah Weber Sachs Oct.16-Nov.27, 1953 0 0
Japanese Woodcuts lent by Contemporary Artists -Oct.26, 1953 0 0
Lithographs by Pierre Bonnard -Nov., 1953 0 0
Ceramics by Leon Gambetta Volkmar -Nov., 1953 0 0
German 15th Century Prints -Nov., 1953 0 0
Chicago and Vicinity 57th Annual Nov.12-Dec.13, 1953 0 5353 FF6
Masterpiece of the Month: Man of Sorrows, Anonymous German Woodcut, 15th C. December, 1953 0 0
1954
Exhibition Title Dates Catalogues Photographs
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Both Sides of American Art Feb., 1953-Apr., 1954 0 6253
Photographs by Arnold Newman Nov.16, 1953-Jan.1, 1954 CL 0
Japanese Prints Nov.20, 1953-Jan.3, 1954 0 0
Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt Jan.14-Feb.25, 1954 2 5354 FF1a,b,c. Oversize photos. Box 6
Whistler and Whistleriana Jan.14-Feb.25, 1954 0 0
Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson Jan.18-Mar.1, 1954 CL 0
Japanese Screens Jan.15-May 16, 1954 0 0
Miniature Relief Sculptures in Wax from the Collection of Mrs. Alfred E. Hamill Jan. - Apr., 1954 0 0
Americana. Gifts of Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne and Miss Ellen LaMotte Jan. - Apr., 1954 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: "Damascus" Rug, Egypt, 16-17th C. March, 1954 BCL 0
Photographs by Cecil Beaton Mar.12-May 1, 1954 CL 0
Designer-Crafstmen U.S.A., incl. Midwest Designer-Craftsmen Exhibiton, 1953 Mar.16-Apr.26, 1954 2 5353 FF5
Drawings by Ben Shahn Mar.26-Apr.26, 1954 0 0
Society of Typographic Arts 27th Annual Mar.27-May 2, 1954 2 0
Chinese Export Porcelain -Mar., 1954 0 0
Winter Landscapes by Japanese Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries -Mar.14, 1954 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Japanese Landscape, attributed Kano Motonobu April, 1954 BCL 0
18th c. Prints of Japanese Kabuki Theatre Apr.15-May 15, 1954 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Four Studies of Italian Comedians by Watteau May, 1954 BCL 0
SAIC 75th Annual: Art in the Making May 8-24,1954 0 8745
Frederic Clay Bartlett: Memorial Exhibition of Paintings May 3-May 24, 1954 0 0
Burnham Library: Illustrated Books from the Bequest of Alfred E. Hamill May 3-May 24, 1954 0 0
Photographs by Robert Doisneau May 15-July 1, 1954 0 0
Contemporary Chinese Paintings by Ma Shou-Hua May 20-July 4, 1954 0 0
Opening of American and European Rooms in Miniature by Mrs. James Ward Thorne, Permanent Exhibition May 25, 1954 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: The Four Evangelists, by Allesandro Vittoria June-August, 1954 BCL 0
Society for Contemporary American Art 14th Annual June 2-June 20, 1954 CL 5354 FF2
Paintings by American Indians June 5-July 5, 1954 0 5354 FF5
Portrait Prints of Five Centuries July -, 1954 0 0
Drawings Old and New July -, 1954 0 0
Chinese and Japanese Paintings July 11-Oct.3, 1954 0 0
Masterpieces of Religious Art July 15-Aug.31, 1954 2 5354 FF3
500 Years of Religious Prints July 15-Aug.31, 1954 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Iranian Scraffito Bowl, 11th-12th c. September, 1954 BCL 0
Photographs in Color by Arthur Siegel Sept.15-Nov.1, 1954 0 0
Midwest Designer Craftsmen: Crafts Fair Sept.25-26, 1954 0 0
Masterpiece of the Month: Desk by David Roentgen, ca. 1775 October, 1954 BCL 0
Contemporary Chinese Paintings by Ch'i Pai-shih Oct.15-Nov.29, 1954 0 0
Gallery of Art Interpretation: Recent Paintings by Mark Rothko, Contemporary American Oct.15-Dec.31, 1954 0 0
American Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture 61st Annual Oct.21-Dec.5, 1954 4 5354 FF4
Masterpiece of the Month: That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, by Ivan Albright November, 1954 BCL 0



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