Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A tunic with broad arms and a floral and paisley design throughout.

Dalmatic with Apparel and Orphrey Band, 17th century

Dark twilight scene of a a brightly illuminated white cottage along the shore of an expansive body of water, seen through a thick of silhouetted trees.

Fisherman's Cottage, 1906

Harald Oscar Sohlberg

A head-shaped tan and red-orange ceramic vessel with a round, expressionless face atop two squat feet, darker markings around the eyes and down the cheeks.

Abstract Portrait Vessel of a Ruler with Painted Face Resting on Feet, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A squat oval-shaped ceramic jar, painted black, with a cylindrical top and two very small handles on either side of the top. Some visible paint loss.

Blackware Jar with Single Spout, 1200–1450

Chimú

Miniature Georgian-era dining room with pale green walls, ornate white trim, long glass table.

E-10: English Dining Room of the Georgian Period, 1770-90, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.

Ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1877

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Light-colored snowscape with visible brushstrokes featuring a bridge in front of red and white barns and farmhouses, surrounded by trees.

Sandvika, Norway, 1895

Claude Monet

A work made of encaustic and newspaper on canvas.

Target, 1961

Jasper Johns

A grand, double-height room with wood paneling, stenciled wall patterns, four hexagonal columns, and an interior balcony with guardrail at left.

Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Reconstruction at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1893/94 (original built) 1972 (original demolished) 1976/77 (reconstructed)

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A group of light-skinned people accompanied by a horse and rider carry a palanquin, or box on two poles used to transport a person. A silhouetted backdrop of huts and trees in black and gray contrasts with the colored figures.

Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

Conical-shaped bowl with sides angled outward, a smooth black interior, and a bumpy exterior that is black along the rim and graduates to a reddish-brown color.

Bowl with Textured Surface Decoration, 900–1000

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Lekanis (Covered Dish), 450-430 BCE

Ancient Greek

A light-brown, kettlebell-shaped vessel with a top spout features a red line drawing of a seated warrior facing right, wearing a stylized patterned dress and holding a weapon.

Stirrup Spout Vessel with Fineline Enthroned Warrior Motif, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of oil on canvas.

Alice, 1892

William Merritt Chase

To-scale great room with a double-height ceiling. The bottom half of each wall is clad in elaborately carved wooden panels. The right wall features a tall bay window, the left a fireplace flanked by suits of armor. A long, rustic table with bench is centered in the room.

E-1: English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of terracotta, black-figure with applied paint.

Pelike (Storage Jar), about 510-500 BCE

Ancient Greek

A black-and-white photo collage featuring Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall building—a long, rectangular, single-story building with walls of glass windows—submerged in a large body of water at 45 degrees, against a cloud-filled sky.

The Titanic, 1978

Stanley Tigerman

A work made of etching on cream laid paper.

Skipping, 1921

Eileen Alice Soper

Painting in shades of dark red, brown, and black, depicting figures crowded in a doorway of a small hut, engaged in conflict. One man looms in front of the doorway with a stoic expression, and four other figures kneel and stand beside him. One points a sword at his face.

Zapata, 1930

José Clemente Orozco

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, c. 1960

Dorka Raynor

<<<16171819 >>>