Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Wooden piano with cabinets inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl.

Manxman Piano, 1897

Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott

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

Large tan rug with black and brown floral motif.

Bed Rug, 1796

Hannah Johnson

Tan stone carving of a head, features weathered darker, headwear with geometric pattern.

Head of a Male Deity (Deva), Angkor period, late 12th–early 13th century

Two girls in acrobatic uniforms stand in an arena, one holds oranges.

Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg), 1879

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bust of young boy with large eyes and long curly hair, looking to his side.

Bust of a Youth (Saint John the Baptist?), 1630/40

Francesco Mochi

Londonderry Vase, 1813

Manufacture nationale de Sèvres

Tall standing clock with gilt brass panels, checkered wood inlaid trim.

Tall-Case Clock, c. 1906

Josef Hoffmann

Horizontal painting in pastel tones of a series of abstract clouds in a gridlike formation like loose bricks, larger at the bottom of the painting and receding away at a horizon line near the top of the painting. Behind them, a blue sky gets progressively lighter. At the horizon line is a loose pink gradient that progresses to white and returns to blue at the very top of the work.

Sky above Clouds IV, 1965

Georgia O'Keeffe

A chair made out of intertwining orange wires creating a branch-like webbing. The structure has a single base and arm rests.

Corallo Chair, 2006

Campana Brothers

Blue-green print of thin man and woman seated at table with empty plates and glasses.

The Frugal Meal, from The Saltimbanques, September 1904

Pablo Picasso

Video installation of dolphins, diver projected across multiple walls of room

Delphine, 1999

Diana Thater

A sepia-toned aerial perspective drawing of Chicago's lakefront and the city behind it.

Plate 49 from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the City from Jackson Park to Grant Park, Looking Towards the West. The proposed shore treatment as a park enclosing a waterway (or a series of lagoons) is shown, together with the enlarged yacht harbor, recreation piers, and a scheme for Grant Park., 1907

Daniel Hudson Burnham

Against red background four men stand around another bound naked to a chair, his head covered.

Interrogation II, 1981

Leon Golub

Gray statue with multiple heads and arms seated on Peacock.

Karttikeya, Commander of the Divine Army, Seated on a Peacock, Ganga Period, about 12th century

Gilded porcelain box of betting chips for card game.

Gaming Set, c. 1735

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory

Porcelain vulture with red, black, feathers on white tree stump.

King Vulture, 1734

Johann Joachim Kändler

black and white photo of a window display of chair and shoes for giant and midget.

Fête du Trône, 1925

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

Sculpted head of a medium-skinned man in a beige headdress with geometric pattern and distinctive stirrup-shaped top piece.

Portrait Vessel of a Ruler, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

Depiction of comic book style cup, alka seltzer dissolving in water.

Alka Seltzer, 1966

Roy Lichtenstein