#Art Institute Chicago

[garadinervi]

Brice Marden, Aphrodite (Negril) with Green, (stick and black and colored inks, with white gouache, on ivory wove paper), 1991-1994 [Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL. © Brice Marden / ARS, New York]

[arthistoryanimalia]

This week's #MosaicMonday falls on #AppreciateADragonDay so here is maybe the coolest of the 8 Tiffany dragonfly lamp designs attributed to Clara Driscoll:

Lamp with “Hanging Head Dragonfly” Shade and “Mosaic and Turtleback” Base By 1906 Tiffany Studios (New York, 1902-1932) Design attributed to Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll (American, 1861–1944) Favrile glass & bronze, 86.4 × 57.2 cm [Art Institute Chicago]

"In the 1890s Louis Comfort Tiffany began using his opalescent Favrile glass to produce lamps, the decorative form for which he would become most famous. As the artistic director of Tiffany Studios located in Corona, New York, he approved all patterns but created relatively few lamps himself. Clara Driscoll, head of the Women’s Glass Cutting Department, was likely responsible for this shade and base. Driscoll began working for Tiffany in 1888, and she designed the majority of the firm’s lamps before she left the company in 1908-9. Driscoll created at least eight dragonfly shades. This example is distinguished by its large size, glass cabochons, and the placement of insects’ bodies along the lower edge. While Tiffany Studios mass-produced these shades and bases, the firm varied the color scheme of each object to heighten the sense of handcraftsmanship. This daring design became one of Tiffany’s most popular and was made through 1924."

[urbanchicagoan]

Watching over the Art Institute on a winter Wednesday (12/21/2022)

[simonh]

Roy Lichtenstein by Thomas Hawk

[ragtaghistorian]

a favorite painting -- capturing the "loneliness of a large city."

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)

[lizapaizis]

My new favourite artist: Grant Wood

My new favourite artist: Grant Wood

” I realized that all the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.   So I went back to Iowa.”  ~ Grant Wood ~ Yesterday we visited the lovely snow-dusted Mississippi river city of Dubuque, birthplace and childhood home of my husband. We decided to drop into the wonderful Dubuque Art Musem    a regional art gallery I was delighted to find had some works of this great…

[lionofchaeronea]

Shin Ōhashi Bridge (Shin Ōhashi) from the series Twenty Views of Tōkyō (Tōkyō nijū kei), Hasui Kawase, 1926

[srednod]

William Turner Dannat (1853–1929) Study for "An Aragonese Smuggler" 1881

[didoofcarthage]

Pair of firedogs representing Venus and Mars, designed by Quentin-Claude Pitoin and modeled by Etienne-Maurice Falconnet

French, c. 1769

gilt bronze and iron supports

Art Institute of Chicago

[copperbadge]

Whoever is running the socials for the Art Institute, they aren't paying you enough.

[ID: An instagram post from the Art Institute of Chicago Museum; it shows a professional photograph of a tired-looking young man in a business suit, sitting in front of a holiday decoration in the form of giant Christmas lights. He is looking into the middle distance with headphones in, and seems unaware of the photographer. It is captioned "Christmas has come and gone, and we could all use a little quiet time to recuperate. New York street photographer Melanie Einzig finds a young man in a moment of exhaustion in this 1999 photograph, "Holiday Spirit, Avenue of the Americas."]

[garadinervi]

Mel Bochner, Untitled (Study for ‘3-Way Fibonacci Progression’), (pen and black ink on blue-lined graph paper), 1966 [Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL. © Mel Bochner]

[arthistoryanimalia]

More art for #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheRabbit:

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (Portuguese, I887-1918) The Leap of the Rabbit 1911 oil on canvas Spotted on display at Art Institute Chicago.

"With its dynamic composition, lush color, and energetic forms, The Leap of the Rabbit exemplifies the unique style Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso developed while working in Paris from 1906 to 1914. Souza-Cardoso drew on an eclectic mix of sources he encountered in the French capital, including Art Nouveau, the work of Paul Cézanne, and exotic costume designs of Léon Bakst for the Ballets Russes, as well as the native Iberian tilework of his homeland. The Leap of the Rabbit was included in the groundbreaking 1913 International Exposition of Modern Art (better known as the Armory Show), the first major exhibition introducing American audiences to European avant-garde art, where it was purchased by the Chicago collector Arthur Jerome Eddy."

[urbanchicagoan]

Seasonal sightings at the station (12/20/2022)

[birdhand-art]

My first submission to Xerox Candy Bar has officially been published!! I'm so excited to share the Monsters & Cryptids edition with everyone on distribution day :]

Thank you so much to everyone at XCB! Y'all are amazing and i'm so interested to see what comes next 👀

[sakrogoat]