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)
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Shin Ōhashi Bridge (Shin Ōhashi) from the series Twenty Views of Tōkyō (Tōkyō nijū kei), Hasui Kawase, 1926
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William Turner Dannat (1853–1929)
Study for "An Aragonese Smuggler"
1881
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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
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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."]
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The old blind guitarist, 1903, Art Institute of Chicago - by Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), Spanish
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Shura (修羅) by Yamaguchi Mio (山口美音), 2020
From the special exhibition "Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan" (Dec 16, 2023–Jun 3, 2024) at the Art Institute of Chicago
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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Perfect), (collage of self-adhesive vinyl letters and frosted mylar, cut-and-tipped to gelatin silverprint), 1980 [Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. © Barbara Kruger]
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For a slow Sunday here are some Fabergé nephrite jade snails from Russia:
Carl Fabergé, late 19th/early 20th century, carved nephrite jade, 4.8 x 8.1 x 3.2 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum
Fabergé Workshop, c. 1900, carved nephrite jade with diamond eyes, 5.5 x 12.3 x 4.1 cm, Cincinnati Art Museum
Fabergé Workshop, c. 1885-1905, carved nephrite jade with rose aventurine quartz shell and gold tentacles, 4.9 × 4.8 × 10.8 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago
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Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
"After the Hurricane, Bahamas" (1899)
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Realism
Located in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Miniature English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603
Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans
c.1937
Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1186)
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River and Mountain Landscape, Xiang Shengmo (1597-1658)
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Finally remembered that having an Art Institute membership means I can go there…whenever. Not just as an event of the day, or to see a specific exhibit, or as a planned visit. I can just…go. And wander. Or read. Or walk through for 15 minutes just cuz. Because I have a membership so I get in for free (girl math). This is a revelation. Catch me reading in there on random benches all the time in 2024.
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Tarquin and Lucretia by Jacopo Robusti, called Il Tintoretto
Italian, 1578-1580
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago
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Some prints&drawings from the Art Institute's collection, which I saw during a recent lecture at the museum and thought were fun to share. I particularly like the Picasso print, which manages to give "postage stamp" without me really understanding why.
[ID: Three images; the first, A Triple Portrait of Hermine, Emilia, and Helena by Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, is a realistic sketch showing three young women, two in profile facing a third in the center; they are wearing large floofy blouses and have beautiful braided and coiffed hair. The lower left, Guitar on a Table by Pablo Picasso, is a print containing several blocks of color and shapes, with ink over top to add texture; an oval in the center does resemble a table, with a blocky guitar lying on it, though that is only a small portion of the image. The third, Starving Spirits by Paul Klee, is a pastel sketch on linen showing several vaguely human-looking shapes drawn with thin angular lines, walking towards a small table with a pitcher and a plate on it; the only color is the background, which is a wild wash of blue with a red streak in it which appears to be leading the "spirits" to the table.]
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