Illinois Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

 

Other online information

 

(above: George Gardner Symons (1861-1930), Fishing Village, St. Ives, n.d., oil on canvas, 25.2 x 30.1 in. Private collection.  Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

 

Art by Lynne Warren and Art Colonies by Devereux Bowly, Jr. from The Encyclopedia of Chicago website with copyrights by Chicago Historical Society and The Newberry Library, Accessed August, 2015.

Art and Handicraft in the Women's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition., Maud Howe Elliott, ed. put online by Laura June Dziuban, Susan Quinlan, and Mary Mark Ockerbloom. Accessed August, 2015.

Artists from Illinois in Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

Arts and Crafts Movement from The Encyclopedia of Chicago. Accessed August, 2015.

Between the Buildings: Art From Chicago, 1930s-1980s is a 2018 exhibit at the Krannert Art Museum which says: "This exhibition considers the problematic nature of art historical categories and explores what other stories are missed by perpetuating a single narrative." Accessed 9/18

Chicago Artists in the 1930's is a section of a website named Chicagology. Accessed July, 2016.

Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow is a 2018 exhibit at the  Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art which says: "Culled from 30 collections (and many more examined), the exhibition explores the commingled histories of the ten artists, and the artists, educators, curators, dealers, collectors, and appreciators who comprised the culture of receptivity in Chicago, and embraced their work. The history of exhibitions of non-mainstream work in Chicago, from 1941 to the present, amplifies and underscores the curatorial premise." Accessed 8/18

Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now is a 2021 exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago which says: "The exhibition traces the evolution of comics in Chicago, as cartoonists ventured beyond the pages of newspapers and into experimental territory including long-form storytelling, countercultural critique, and political activism. Chicago Comics examines styles, schools of thought, and modes of publication across six decades of cartooning, including works from artists who are changing the medium today."  Accessed 8/21

Chicago Imagists at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, an exhibit held September 11, 2011 to January 15, 2012 at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum's website says: "In the late 1960s, art audiences were introduced to a vibrant new group of artists who would soon be identified collectively as the Chicago Imagists. The Imagists initially showed their work between 1966 and 1971 at the Hyde Park Art Center. Don Baum, artist and director of the center, facilitated several exhibitions that included the work of, most significantly, Roger Brown, Sarah Canright, James Falconer, Ed Flood, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, and Karl Wirsum. These young artists banded together variously to present their art in a series of exhibitions with titles such as Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image, Marriage Chicago Style, and Chicago Antigua. Most of the artists were native to Chicago, in their later twenties, and current or former students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)." Accessed February, 2015

Chicago Modern, which says in its Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950 website: "represents the artistic culture of Chicago from the 1920s to the 1940s. It was a culture graced with the iconoclastic liberty that life in the modern city afforded." Accessed August, 2015.

Chicago School: Imagists in Context, an exhibit held September 11, 2011 to January 8, 2012 at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum's website says: "Chicago School: Imagists in Context explores the distinctive artistic style that began to emerge in Chicago after World War II and which dominated the visual culture of the city for many decades. The exhibition offers a broad cultural framework in which to consider the work of the artists who became known as Chicago Imagists." Accessed February, 2015

Eagle's Nest Art Colony from The Oregon Public Library's Eagle's Nest Colony Art Collection, Oregon Illinois. Includes numerous artist biographies and images of artworks in the collection. Accessed July, 2016.

Eagle's Nest Art Colony from Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

Establishing The Sculpture Program at the University of Illinois by Glen Martin, June, 2001. Accessed August, 2015.

A Gift to Biro-Bidjan: Chicago, 1937 - From Despair to New Hope from Oakton Community College. Accessed August, 2015.

Hairy Who (and some others), an exhibit held October 14, 2007 to January 8, 2008 at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum's website says: "Featured artists include Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, and Jim Nutt, all original members of the Hairy Who; Ed Paschke, who with four other artists showed at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1968 under the banner of "Nonplussed Some"; and Roger Brown and Christina Ramberg, who exhibited with two other artists in a group calling themselves "False Image" in 1968 and 1969. The survey also includes works by the Chicago Imagists' mentor, Ray Yoshida, and Robert Lostutter, a close friend of Paschke who did not show with the groups but is closely affiliated with the Imagists in his eccentric style and expression." Accessed February, 2015

Hebru Brantley: Forced Field is a 2017 exhibit at the Elmhurst Art Museum  which says: " A native of the city's Bronzeville neighborhood, Brantley is known for his public art commissions such as Chi Boy on S. Wabash and an eight-panel mural at the McCormick Place CTA Green Line station. His work is influenced by an array of pop culture icons, comic book heroes, Japanese anime, and street art pioneers Jean-Michel Basquiat, KAWS and Keith Haring." Also see artist's website    Accessed 11/17

Illinois artists collected by Kevin Daniel. Accessed August, 2015.

Illinois (sampling of artists and works connected to state) from AskArt. Accessed August, 2015.

Illinois Historical Art Project contains a large list of Illinois artists, essays on many artists, and other information. The website says "Our relational database can help the scholar who is seeking to organize an exhibition and generate thematic plans. If for example you are interested in George Bellow's impact on modernism in Chicago, our database can provide a student list of those artists who worked under him at the Art Institute of Chicago and when. If you are interested in the Illinois artists who studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, our database will provide the answer. Our library covers all of the art organizations functioning in Illinois since 1859 including articles and exhibition catalogs." Accessed April, 2016.

Illinois Women Artists Project including essays and biographies of hundreds of historic Illinois women artists. Accessed 11/20

Illinois Women Artists Project essay: Ewald, Kimberly. "Women Artists of the Hull House Between 1889 and 1940: The Settlement and its Support for the Arts," May 2009. Accessed 11/20

Ivy Wild (artist colony) from Hamilton City Hall / Visitor Information Center. Accessed August, 2015.

Jose Guerrero, Presente: A Memorial Print Portfolio is a 2019 exhibit at the DePaul Art Museum which says: "which says: "Jose Guerrero (1938-2015) was an artist and community leader who impacted his community through printmaking, mural painting, and activism. Guerrero is best known for his work in the Pilsen neighborhood, where his studio and workshop was a hub for art classes, mural tours, and political organizing."   Accessed 9/19

Kings and Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago is a 2017 exhibit at the Elmhurst Art Museum which says: "Most of the world's finest pinball machines were made in Chicago's North Side factories, and many of those were manufactured by Elmhurst residents, the Gottlieb family, and designed and illustrated by local Chicago artists. As those machines reached the apex of pictorial and engineering ingenuity, the artists now known as the Imagists were finding their unique visual style with inspiration from many vernacular sources including the arcades and Riverview Park." Accessed 3/17

M. Christine Schwartz Collection website says it is a "privately owned selection of paintings created by Chicago artists from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries." Accessed August, 2015.

A New Deal for Illinois: The Federal Art Project Collection of Western Illinois University is a 2013-14 exhibit at the Figge Art Museum which says: "In contrast to the national scope of the Smithsonian Institution's 1934 exhibition, A New Deal for Illinois examines New Deal art in the regional context of Chicago in the 1930s and in relation to the institutional history of WIU. The exhibition and accompanying catalog are the first scholarly studies to research the historical, socio-cultural and artistic factors associated with the formation of WIU's FAP art collection." Accessed 2/17

(above: John Buczak, 44th Annual Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago. Works Projects Administration)

The Oak Park Art League was founded in Oak Park, IL in 1921. It's website says it "...is one of Illinois' longest, continually-running non-profit arts organizations. OPAL fulfills its mission through its offering of high quality art education to people of all ages and skill levels, programs and guest lectures, artist demonstrations and critiques, plus monthly exhibition opportunities in our art gallery." Accessed April, 2016.

Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts was founded in Chicago in 1895 as an association of representational artists. A Wikipedia page on the organizatiion lists some early members, including several covered in Resource Library articles such as Victor Higgins, Edgar Alwin Payne and Walter Ufer. It is listed in TFAO's Illinois Art History. Accessed April, 2016.

Park Ridge Art Colony from AskArt.com. Accessed August, 2015.

Roger Brown / Matrix 35 is a 1980 exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive which says: "The common denominator of his work is Memory of things visual, episodic, current, traditional, and personal-all of which are expressed by this artist who has maintained a fresh and independent point of view in the seething urban bustle and competitive art scene of Chicago." Also see entry in Wikipedia. Accessed 3/17

Society for Sanity in Art from Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

Sundblom Circle/Sundblom Studio from AskArt.com. Accessed August, 2015.

Teco Art Pottery from Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

The Time Is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago's South Side, 1960-1980 is a 2018 exhibit at the Smart Museum of Art - University of Chicago which says: "Together with a scholarly catalogue and a series of public programs, The Time Is Now! reassesses and recalibrates traditional narratives of postwar Chicago art, revealing how artists living, working, and exhibiting on the South Side charted new artistic courses, challenged the political status quo, created new spaces for art, and reimagined the future in ways that continue to resonate through current national dialogues around race, gender, protest, and belonging."   Also see press release. Accessed 10/18

Vanderpoel Art Association website sayds: "...founded in 1913 by friends of John H. Vanderpoel, as a memorial..." Accessed August, 2015.

Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893 from Kathleen L. Nichols, Pittsburg State University. Accessed August, 2015.

World's Columbian Exposition from ExpoMuseum. Includes online bibliography. Accessed August, 2015.

World's Columbian Exposition, from Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015

 

(above: Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, with The Republic statue and Administration Building Photo: The Project Gutenberg EBook of Official Views Of The World's Columbian Exposition, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

 

The World's Columbian Exposition from the Chicago Historial Society. Accessed August, 2015.

The World's Columbian Exposition (1893), from PBS. Accessed August, 2015.

The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 from the Paul V. Galvin Library Digital History Collection, Illinois Institute of Technology. Accessed August, 2015.

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, from the University of Delaware. Accessed August, 2015.

World's Columbian Exposition Catalog. Revised Catalogue, Department of Fine Arts, with Index of Exhibitors, Chicago 1893, from Google Books. Accessed August, 2015.

World's Columbian Exposition, 1893: Official Catalogue. Part X. Department K, Halsey Cooley Ives, ed. Chicago 1893, from Google Books. Accessed August, 2015.

World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath by Julie K. Rose, from University of Virginia. Accessed August, 2015.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) Collection of the Illinois State Museum. Accessed August, 2015.

The Illinois Women Artists Project offers a page with links to videos including, as of June 2010, Mary Agnes Yerkes (1886-1989), part 1 and 2; Louise Woodroofe; Eleanor Coen; IWA Project's Development, and Nell Brooker Mayhew Life & Art. Accessed August, 2015.

 

TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with this state. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not listed on this page.

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