Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Scene in a diner, viewed through wrap-around glass windows, at night on an empty urban street. A light-skinned man and woman, he in a suit and she in a red dress, sit together at a triangular wood bar, eyes downcast. At left sits another man, his back to the viewer. Behind the counter is a light-skinned man in a white uniform. The interior lights cast a yellow glow that spills onto the street in pale green. Above the diner a sign reads, "Phillies."

Nighthawks, 1942

Edward Hopper

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

A work made of etching on ivory wove paper.

The Evening Wind, 1921

Edward Hopper

A work made of oil and aerosol spray paint on canvas.

New York, 1956

Hedda Sterne

Loosely painted scene of a brown-haired girl in her nightgown standing in a dark room, gazing out a window into a brighter night, her face unseen and her hand drawing back the pale curtain. Light blues and pink whites dominate the girl and the window, while deep browns, blues, and greens color the darkened portions of her room.

The Girl by the Window, 1893

Edvard Munch

A work made of oil and silver paper on canvas.

Broken and Restored Multiplication, 1918–19

Suzanne Duchamp

A work made of oil on canvas.

Ancient Windows, c. 1950

Horacio Renteria Rocha

Dense and varied landscape with open fields, groves of bushy trees, and a row of thin conifers. A light-blue river tranverses the canvas, and a church steeple emerges from the trees at left of center. At far left is a side view of a white house with open shutters, a woman working inside.

Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods, 1899

Édouard Jean Vuillard

Black-and-white image of a framed window with geometric patterns forming a decorative frame within the panel in clear, opaque, and mottled glass.

Robert W. Evans House, 9914 South Longwood Drive, Chicago, Illinois: Leaded Glass Window, c. 1908

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of etching, drypoint and burin in black on ivory laid paper.

Self-Portrait Etching at a Window, 1648

Rembrandt van Rijn

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Antique Shop, Pine Street, Philadelphia, 1938, printed 1990

Irving Penn

A black-and-white image of a window with an asymmetrical geometric gridded pattern in a wooden frame.

Emil Bach House, Chicago, Illinois: Window, c. 1915

Frank Lloyd Wright

A triptych glass window in an oak frame with an asymmetrical geometric pattern of circles, squares, and rectangles in clear, red, green, blue, and black glass.

Triptych Window from the Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, 1912 (removed 1967)

Frank Lloyd Wright

Multiple detail drawings of a window on toned paper, including design and construction notes.

860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, Details, 11/22/1949

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A work made of acrylic on celotex and formica on wood.

Horizon III, 1990

Richard Artschwager

A wood-framed glass window with a grid pattern formed by came sections, or leaded outlines, repeated vertically three times. Yellow glass in the details.

Tomek, F.F., House: Spare Window, 1907

Frank Lloyd Wright

A sketch of an airy interior space with two slender columns in the foreground and three large glass windows on the back wall.

Court House Studies, Interior Perspective Study, c. 1931–1938

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A work made of oil on cardboard.

Woman Reading Before Window, 1903

Albert André

Still life painting of dead waterfowl and vegetables in windowsill.

Still Life with Game Fowl, 1600/03

Juan Sánchez Cotán

A stained glass window with a mosaic bird design in the center framed first by consecutive blue squares and then yellow triangles.

Window with Bird Design, c. 1925

Edgar Miller