Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nighthawks in the Art Institute of Chicago. It has been suggested that Hopper was inspired by a short story of Ernest Hemingway's, either "The Killers" (1927), which Hopper greatly admired, [4] or the more philosophical "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1933). [5]
Arthur B. Davies, Elysian Fields, undated, oil on canvas, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D. C.) The School of the Art Institute of Chicago was founded in 1879, from the remains of an earlier school founded in 1866 (thus the school predates the museum of the same name). [6]
Don Baum (1922 – October 28, 2008) was an American curator, artist and educator, most known as a key impresario and promoter of the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists that had an enduring impact on American art in the later twentieth century.
The Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) is a visual arts organization and the oldest alternative exhibition space in the city of Chicago. Since 2006, HPAC has been located just north of Hyde Park Boulevard, at 5020 S.Cornell Avenue, in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago , Illinois .
Emil Armin (1 April 1883 – 2 July 1971) was an American artist known for his use of vibrant color and brushwork. [5] From the 1920s through his death in 1971, Armin maintained a high profile in Chicago's artistic community.
I'm All A Twit, acrylic reverse painting on vinyl window shade with enamel on wood by Jim Nutt, 1969, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. James T. Nutt (born November 28, 1938) is an American artist who was a founding member of the Chicago surrealist art movement known as the Chicago Imagists, or the Hairy Who.
"We wanted to begin this image with this drawing from Franklin McMahon of the judge's bench and the witness stand," Chicago History Museum curator Charles Bethea said. "They should be places where ...
The Hairpin Arts Center is a community art center in the historic Morris B. Sachs building within the Chicago Community Area of Avondale. The space is managed by the Logan Square Chamber of Arts , a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit established in 2009.