The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 13, no. 1 (Spring 1987)
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. Articles in this issue include an analysis of photographs of the Eiffel Tower from the 1920s, a study of Gustave Courbet’s Mère Grégoire and the leftist politics of Pierre Jean Béranger, an article highlighting Georges Lemmen’s Neo-Impressionist Portrait of the Artist’s Sister, a history of an 8th century Buddha statue from the Tōdai-ji Buddhist Sculpture Workshop, and an examination of a wheellock pistol once owned by King Louis XIII of France.
Awarded: Chicago Women in Publishing First Place
Articles in this publication:
David Travis, “In and Of the Eiffel Tower”
Robert L. Herbert, “Courbet’s Mère Grégoire and Béranger”
Jane Block, “A Study in Belgian Neo-Impressionist Portraiture”
Samuel C. Morse, “Japanese Sculpture in Transition: An Eighth-Century Example from the Tōdai-ji Buddhist Sculpture Workshop”
Leonid Tarassuk, “A Spanish Pistol from the French Royal Collection”
80 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780226028118
ISBN-10: 0226028119
