Chicago, The Art Institute12

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The Art Institute, founded in 1879, now has approximately 300,000 works of art in its permanent collection, stewarded by eleven curatorial departments and nearly 500 employees. This collection is housed in eight buildings—nearly one million square feet—at the heart of Chicago, one block from Lake Michigan and serving as the eastern anchor of the city's downtown.1.5 million visitors annually from around the globe.

Gunsaulus Hall, a windowless walkway, had collection of European arms and armours

Jean Antoine Houdon (French

Neoclassical Sculptor, 1741-

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Domangeville de Serilly

Paul Albert Bartholome

(French 1848-1928)

Lamenting Group

Paul Albert Bartholome

(French 1848-1928)

Lamenting Group

Paul Albert Bartholome

(French 1848-1928)

Lamenting Group

From the founding of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1879, architectural fragments have played an important educational role in the museum. The first artifacts acquired by the Art Institute were dramatic full-scale plaster casts of the great monument of Europe, such as the Parthenon frieze at the top of the east walls of the gallery. More recently, the Art Institute has received additional fragments and landmark buildings have been restored in the 1980s and 1990s.

In order for the architectural fragments

collection to serve an

educational function, this permanent

exhibition has been

organized in four sections, that illustrate the Chicago

architecture in the last century

Recreation of original Stock Exchange Trading Room

Healy and Millet Stained glass of The Auditorium Theater (1887-89) removed during restoration in 1974

The Auditorium Theater The Auditorium Theater

The Auditorium Theater

John Donoghue (American 1853-1903)Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory after the Battle of Salamis

John Donoghue (American 1853-1903)Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory after the Battle of SalamisDetails

Joseph Mozier (1812 - 1870) Pocahontas

Joseph Mozier (1812 - 1870) was an American sculptor active in Italy. Pocahontas

Joseph Mozier (1812 - 1870) Pocahontas

The Roger McCormick Memorial Court houses a

selection of the Art Institute’s 19th-century American

sculptures, many by expatriates who lived in

Rome or trained in Paris.

Allegorical sculpture was an important teaching tool in the

Victorian age, and so the moralizing stories of Jeptha’s

Daughter; Nydia (from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Last

Days of Pompeii); Pocahontas; Zenobia, Queen

of Palmyra; and other historical and literary figures

abound.

The Roger McCormick Memorial Court

Galleries of American Art Sculpture Court

The collection also contains

personifications of Amor Caritas

(Angel of Charity), Solitude,

and Truth. The courtyard is

bathed in natural light, which allows the white marbles to take on hues of

blue, pink, or yellow at various

times of day. Other small-scale

sculptures are placed

throughout the galleries of

American Art

Galleries of American Art

Sculpture Court

Daniel Chester French (1850 – 1931), one of the most prolific and acclaimed American sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is best known for his monumental work, the statue of Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Truth, 1900

Daniel Chester French (1850 – 1931)

Truth, 1900

Daniel Chester French (1850 – 1931)

Truth, 1900

Augustus Saint Gaudens (American, 1848–1907) Amor Caritas

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Augustus Saint Gaudens (American, 1848–1907) Amor Caritas

Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894)

Jephtha's Daughter

Jephthah appears in the Biblical Book of Judges as a judge over Israel for a period of six years. He lived in Gilead and was a member of the tribe of Manasseh. Jephthah led the Israelites in battle against Ammon and, after defeating the Ammonites, fulfilled a rash vow of his, by sacrificing his daughter.

Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894) Jephtha's Daughter

Randolph Rogers (1825-1892)

Nydia, The Blind Flower Girl of

Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-

Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the

painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian

painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in

Milan.

Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii by

American sculptor Randolph Rogers

(1856), was based on a

character from the book.

Randolph Rogers (1825-1892)

The Lost Pleiade

Personification of one of the stars in the constellation called the Pleiades searches the heavens. (She forfeited her position among her six sister stars because she dared to marry a mortal.)

Greek mythology often provided the content for American nineteenth-century sculpture: the connection to the respected academic tradition of the ancient Greeks rendered the depiction of the nude more acceptable to a conservative audience

Her windswept hair and drapery, and her pose, convey a distinct sense of forward motion, a difficult effect to achieve in marble.

Randolph Rogers (1825-1892)

The Lost Pleiade

Lorado Taft (1860-1936)

The Solitude of the Soul

Lorado Taft (1860-1936)

The Solitude of the Soul

"The Solitude of the Soul", there's a concept which Taft explained as.."The thought is the eternally present fact that however closely we may be thrown together by circumstances.. we are unknown to each other."

Two other versions are known to exist. One is a near-same-sized plaster cast, possibly as early as 1901 and probably one of the models shown in the 19ll photographs, now in the collection of American art at the Dayton Art Institute. The other is a smaller but much finer version cast in bronze, presently in the collection of the Krannert Art Museum on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lorado Taft (1860-1936)

The Solitude of the Soul

Hermon Atkins MacNeilThe Moqui Runner 1896

Hermon Atkins MacNeil (American, 1866–1947)

The Vow of Vengeance - 1894 and

The Sun Vow

The Sun Vow portrays a young Native American undergoing a rite of manhood by shooting an arrow skyward under the tutelage of an older warrior.

The sculpture displays the artist's desire to blend anthropological accuracy with the idealized beauty of the ancient sculptures that he studied in Rome.

Alexander Phiminster Proctor

(1862-1950)On the War Trail

"On the War Trail" is a reduced version of monumental bronze commissioned for the Civic Center in Denver Colorado. Dignified and erect, with the Native America's spear thrust defiantly outward, horse and rider provide a striking anecdote to the dejected, broken subject of James Earle Fraser's work, "The End of Trail"..

Alexander Phiminster

Proctor(1862-1950)

On the War Trail

James Earle Fraser (1876-1953)End of Trail

"The trail is lost, the path is hid, and winds that blow from out the ages sweep me on to that chill borderland where Time's spent

sands engulf lost peoples and lost

trails."

- Marion Manville Pope.

James Earle Fraser (1876-1953)End of Trail

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