The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 12, no. 2 (Fall 1986)
Edited by Susan F. Rossen
The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. This special issue is dedicated to the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, which forms the core of one of the finest holdings of Post-Impressionist and School of Paris work in the world. Essays relate the lives and collecting careers of Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett; offer new interpretations and physical evidence on Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge, Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles, and Picasso’s Old Guitarist; examine portraits by Amedeo Modigliani and Ferdinand Hodler; and highlight the formal concerns and Nice period context of two paintings by Matisse.
Awarded: AAM Award of Merit; Chicago Women in Publishing Honorable Mention
Articles in this publication:
Courtney Graham Donnell, “Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett: The Collectors”
Richard R. Brettell, “The Bartletts and the Grande Jatte: Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s”
Reinhold Heller, “Rediscovering Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge”
Richard R. Brettell, “Van Gogh’s Bedrooms at Arles: The Problem of Priority”
Mary Matthews Gedo, “A Youthful Genius Confronts His Destiny: Picasso’s Old Guitarist in The Art Institute of Chicago”
Reinold Heller, “Ferdinand Hodler: A Unique Note in the Bitch Bartlett Collection”
Neal Benezra, “A Study in Irony: Modigliani’s Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz”
Catherine C. Bock, “Woman Before an Aquarium and Woman on a Rose Divan: Matisse in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection”
234 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780226028101
ISBN-10: 0226028100
