Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
Abstract painting, black background covered with flicks and smudges of white and other colors.

Greyed Rainbow, 1953

Jackson Pollock

Terracotta pitcher decorated with red figures on a black background, with a slender neck and base. One side features a woman holding a fan; the reverse, a stylized fan pattern.

Oinochoe (Pitcher), end of 4th century BCE

Ancient Greek

Photograph of a young girl in a doorwary wearing a black dress and a woman in a long, draping garment with her arm around her.

Blessed Art Thou Among Women, from "American Pictorial Photography, Series II" (1901); edition 34/150, 1899

Gertrude Käsebier

A collection of rough detail sketches of the elevation, structure, perspective, and aerial view of a circular building.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Four Sketches, 1999

Oscar Niemeyer

A work made of oil on canvas.

Interior of St. Mark's, Venice, 1869

David Dalhoff Neal

A work made of iron with inlays of gold, silver, bronze, and copper on wood base.

Lock, 1911

Frank L. Koralewsky

A work made of engraving on cream laid paper.

Art of Writing, from Encyclopédie, 1760

Aubin

Painting of a crowd of well-dressed light-skinned people in an open, snowy field surrounded by large rolling hills. At center a woman in a bright-yellow coat and skirt holds the hand of a child in red, who pulls to turn her toward the others.

Love of Winter, 1914

George Wesley Bellows

A work made of copper alloy.

Goldweight: Seated Figure, Mid–19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A bronze lion, deep green and muscular, looks out in the distance from its pedestal in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lion (One of a Pair, South Pedestal), 1893

Edward Kemeys

Large painted portrait of Mao wearing eyeshadow, blush, blue backdrop.

Mao, 1972

Andy Warhol

Stately interior with cream walls and high ceilings. At left is a fireplace with a large military portrait painting above it; at right are two large windows lined with dark curtains. Modern and metallic decorative elements, including a distinctive screen panel and coffee table, mix with more traditional, antique pieces.

E-15: English Drawing Room of the Modern Period, 1930s, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of color lithograph on off-white wove paper.

WPA Art Class Painting, 1940

Eleanor Coen

A work made of oil on canvas.

Irises, 1914–17

Claude Monet

A work made of cor-ten and stainless steel.

Clothespin, 1975

Claes Oldenburg

Abstract painting composed of a central tangle of vibrant colors—purple, pink, orange, green, red—on a mostly gray background, subtly divided into rectangular areas.

City Landscape, 1955

Joan Mitchell

A work made of ink, graphite, and colored pencil on mylar.

Arts Club of Chicago, 1996

John Vinci

Painting of a prominent orange-red circle imposed on the center of a canvas depicting a grove of trees behind a stone wall and an orange-red sky in gradient.

The Banquet, 1958

René Magritte

Color print of travelers of foot and horseback following a grassy route flanked by Japanese bungalows and groves of trees.

Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

Wooden sculpture of seated king surrounded by family.

Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá), 1910-14

Olowe of Ise

<<<891011 >>>