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America Windows

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

Date:

1977

Artist:

Marc Chagall
Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985

About this artwork

Marc Chagall made America Windows to celebrate the US Bicentennial and presented them as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977. The windows merge symbols of US history, the Chicago skyline, and the arts; read from left to right, the panels represent music, painting, literature, architecture, theater, and dance.

Best known as a painter, Chagall had been working in stained glass for several decades by the 1970s. He was drawn to the medium as a way to explore intense color on a monumental scale. Working with stained-glass maker Charles Marq, Chagall executed 86 windows across Europe, Israel, and the United States.

Status

On View, Gallery 144

Department

Modern Art

Artist

Marc Chagall

Title

America Windows

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1977

Medium

Stained glass

Inscriptions

Signed, each pair, l.r.: "MArc ChAgAll/Reims/1977"

Dimensions

96 × 385 in. (244 × 978 cm) (overall)

Credit Line

A gift of Marc Chagall, the City of Chicago, and the Auxiliary Board of The Art Institute of Chicago, commemorating the American Bicentennial in memory of Mayor Richard J. Daley

Reference Number

1977.938

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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