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1940 Exhibition History
| 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 | Photo 1 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 | Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6 Photo 7 Photo 8 Photo 9 Photo 10 Photo 11 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 | |
| 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 |
