The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 28, no. 2 (Fall 2002)
Edited by Gregory Nosan
In this special issue of Museum Studies, the Art Institute of Chicago celebrates the history and contributions of the Antiquarian Society, the museum’s oldest auxiliary organization. Since its founding in 1977, the group has purchased countless treasures for the museum’s collections of American, Asian, European decorative, and textile arts. This splendid publication celebrates the society’s one-hundred-twenthy-fifth anniversary by showcasing approximately fifty objects acquired by the Antiquarians for the Department of European Decorative Arts in the last fifteen years. Beautifully reproduced in color, these works range from a sumptuously enabled, eighteenth-century tea set to fine Biedermeier furniture, elegant Wiener Wekstatte porcelain to sleep Art Deco silver.
Articles in this publication:
Celia Hillard, “‘Higher Things’: Remembering the Early Antiquarians”
Ghenete Zelleke, “An Embarrassment of Riches: Fifteen Years of European Decorative Arts”
96 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780865592018
ISBN-10: 0865592012
