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Geometric forms fragment a vertical composition containing a woodgrain table with newspapers, a guitar, and a stemmed wine glass. These objects are vividly painted within a V-shaped fragment at center. Muted, shadowlike versions of the objects appear outside it. The outline of the guitar is repeated in the V in brown, green, blue, and black alongside a fragment of brown floral wallpaper.

Abstraction (Guitar and Glass), 1913

Juan Gris

A work made of unglazed terra-cotta.

Chimney Piece from the Benjamin Lindauer House, Chicago, Illinois, 1885

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Eleanor, Chicago, c. 1953

Harry Callahan

A sepia-toned panorama of the city of Chicago bisected by the highway with only a few tall buildings scattered on either side.

Untitled (Chicago after the Fire), 1871

George N. Barnard

A work made of lithograph on ivory wove paper.

Self-Portrait at 55 East Division Street, 1947

Ivan Albright

A work made of portfolio cover.

Portfolio Cover for Serigraphs by Students of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

A work made of chromogenic print.

108th Street and Cottage Grove, Chicago, Illinois, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam", December 1994, printed September 1996

Joel Sternfeld

View from the middle of a train station looking down three different corridors. Tunnels are marked with the names of southern cities to the left, northern to the right. Light-skinned travelers, many in fine dress, head left, while dark-skinned travelers, many encumbered by luggage, head right.

Train Station, 1935

Walter Ellison

Painting of vibrantly colored shapes and lines intersecting and overlapping.

Painting with Green Center, 1913

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of cotton, rayon, and polyester, six-color complementary warp and four-color complementary weft plain weave double cloth, self-patterned by areas of warp floats.

Circa 1926 Serious (Furnishing Fabric), 1991

Rob Rose

A work made of black and colored ink, graphite, and colored pencil on a printed map.

Plate 91 from The Plan of Chicago, Chicago, Proposed Diagonal Arteries, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of glass panel, sandblasted and finished with acid etching.

Diana Court Clerestory Window: Diana with Bow and Arrows, 1929

Edgar Miller

A work made of lithograph on cream wove paper.

Follow Me, 1948

Ivan Albright

A work made of cotton, plain weave; screen printed.

O'Hare (Furnishing Fabric), 1961

Eleanor Kluck

A work made of oil on hardboard.

Self-Portrait (No. 13), 1982

Ivan Albright

Vibrantly colored geometric painting of a central white and blue waterfall with birds visible through it. A stylized red jungle cat and black wild boar drink at bottom right. Red water wheel at left, angular blue and white cityscape top at left, tree top at right.

The Bewitched Mill, 1913

Franz Marc

A sparsely painted waterside scene in dark tones with minimal ghostly shapes suggesting ships, yellow glitches of paint for light reflections, and the orb of an orange moon overhead.

Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water, 1872

James McNeill Whistler

A work made of variable media.

Prentice Women's Hospital, 1962/94

Bertrand Goldberg

A work made of portfolio of prints (25) of various media.

Photographs from Class of '74, c. 1974

School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate Photography Class of 1974

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Barbara with Mask, Chicago, c. 1955

Harry Callahan

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