Art Institute
Posted on Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 at 6:53 pmArt Institute
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ART MASTERPIECES 1933 WORLD’S FAIR ART INSTITUTE CHICAGO C. J. BULLIET EXHIBIT $25.00 |
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Press Photo Prince of Dreams Paint by Odilon Redon The Art Institute of Chicago $33.88 |
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1986 Press Photo Chicago Photographer Jean Moss in Art Institute $33.88 |
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Art Institute of Chicago Vintage WPA Travel Poster $17.98 |
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1965 Press Photo Puppet show Detroit Institute Arts $18.88 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright,Exhibit,Chicago Art Institute,1902 $8.99 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright,Exhibit,Chicago Art Institute,1902 $8.99 |
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COOKBOOK CULINARY ARTS INSTITUTE ENCYCLOPEDIC COOKBOOK $49.99 |
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1981 Judith Somogi Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute Students Outdoors Press Photo $14.88 |
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1954 Chicago, Illinois Art Institute Students Press Photo $11.33 |
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VAN GOGH Face To Face portraits Detroit Institute Arts $29.99 |
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250 Ways To Make Candy #15 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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250 Luscious Refrigerator Desserts #16 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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250 Cookie And Small Cake Recipes #17 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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Art Institute Chicago Illinois 1920s postcard $6.50 |
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250 Ways To Serve Fresh Vegetables #11 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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250 Ways Of Serving Potatoes #13 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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250 Ways To Prepare Poultry #4 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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250 Ways To Prepare Meat #8 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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COLLECTOR’S COOKBOOK 1975 MN MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS MINNESOTA $5.00 |
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500 Tasty Snacks Ideas For Entertaining #1 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $3.99 |
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250 Delectable Dessert Recipes #12 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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Meals For Two Cookbook #21 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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COOKING MAGIC VOL. 1 & 2 / CULINARY ARTS INSTITUTE 1955,56,57 $42.00 |
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250 Sauces, Gravies And Dressings #20 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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500 Tempting Salads And Dressing Recipes #7 Culinary Arts Institute 1954 Vintage $5.99 |
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250 Superb Pies And Pastries #5 Culinary Arts Institute 1953 Vintage $5.99 |
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2000 Useful Facts About Food #23 Culinary Arts Institute 1953 Vintage $5.99 |
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500 Delicious Dishes From Leftovers #2 Culinary Arts Institute 1953 Vintage $5.99 |
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European Rooms in Miniature Mrs J.Ward Thorne 1948 Art Institute of Chicago MINT $12.99 |
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American Rooms in Miniature Mrs James Ward Thorne 1948 Art Institute of Chicago $12.99 |
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Menus For Every Day Of The Year #24 Culinary Arts Institute 1953 Vintage $3.99 |
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Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago BRAND NEW $7.95 |
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Diana Weber Art Institute of Chicago Pen & Ink Print Signed, Limited $9.99 |
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1940 Culinary Arts Institute The Dairy Book Berolzheimer Cooking Pamphlet Recipe $6.99 |
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1940 Culinary Arts Institute 250 Ways to Prepare Meat Berolzheimer Cookbook $6.99 |
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1941 Culinary Arts Institute Cookbook 250 Refrigerator Desserts Berolzheimer $6.99 |
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Gauguin: Artists in Focus – Art Institute of Chicago BRAND NEW $5.95 |
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European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago NEW $69.42 |
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The pile thread: Carpets, velvets, and variations, Minneapolis Institute of Arts $5.95 |
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African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago BRAND NEW $7.95 |
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Bulletin of Detroit Institute Arts Vol 51 No. 4 1972 $17.99 |
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Art Nouveau: Belgium, France; Catalogue of Exhibition, Art Institute Chicago $15.00 |
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THE HOLIDAY COOKBOOK Culinary Arts Institute Book 124 $7.99 |
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Never-Used SPECIAL GIFT ED. 1965 Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook $14.01 |
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500 Tasty Sandiches Culinary Arts Institute $5.93 |
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1918 WOMAN’S INSTITUTE OF ARTS 7 SCIENCE 10 BOOKS HOMEMAKING COOKING $99.00 |
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The CRY The SCREAM Mug Lithograph Artist Edvard Munch Art Institute of Chicago $34.99 |
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RPPC Postcard Detroit Institute Arts MI $8.00 |
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Vtg CULINARY ARTS INSTITUTE COOKBOOKS Hungarian-NEW ENGLAND-New Orleans CREOLE $7.99 |
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Lot 27 Vtg 1950s CULINARY ARTS INSTITUTE COOKBOOKS Recipe Book Booklet #1-121 $8.99 |
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Textiles: The Art Institute of Chicago. $69.95 |
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Arts in Early American History (Institute of Early Am.. $12.67 |
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Art Institute Glitter #9 In The Pink Ultrafine Opaque very pretty $6.25 |
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Butler Art Institute & First Christian Church – YOUNGSTOWN – Ohio OH $3.29 |
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1948 Philadelphia Textile Institute Museum of Art Booklet Celebrating 64 Years $16.50 |
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4 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Cups/Mugs – Art Institute Chicago Masterpiece Collection $35.99 |
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GE THE NEW ART GENERAL ELECTRIC KITCHEN INSTITUTE COOKBOOK, 1937 $24.95 |
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,Book,The Past Redisco $2.99 |
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ART INSTITUTE BUILDING CHICAGO 1958 VINTAGE POSTCARD $3.89 |
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1979 Photo Art Institute Of Chicago Tapestries $19.88 |
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1972 Press Photo Draw Edward Lear Art institute Chicago Greece Gennadius Library $19.88 |
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1965 Press Photo Visitors paints Detroit Art Institute $21.88 |
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1965 Press Photo Sixth Century brooch Art Institute $19.88 |
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1961 Press Photo Soprano Ann Ayers Fullerton Hall Art Institute Charles Ives $21.88 |
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1983 Press Photo Detroit Institute Arts black folk art $21.88 |
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THE CASSEROLE COOKBOOK, 1965, Culinary Arts Institute, Chicago $4.00 |
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1961 Press Photo Mrs. Robert Harvey Art Institute $21.88 |
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1966 Press Photo Detroit Institute Arts wing Slaton $21.88 |
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Culinary Arts Institute- 250 ways to prepare Poultry & Game Birds 1940 $8.99 |
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1967 Press Photo Gretchen Kalita outside the Art Institute with Mrs. Edith Grimm $24.88 |
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PICASSO ART POSTER 1921 Mother & Child The Art Institute of CHICAGO museum print $22.00 |
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Architecture of the Art Institute of Chicago
The main entrance to the museum is located on Michigan Avenue in a beautiful Beau Arts stone structure.
The main building of the Art Institute was built in 1892 for the 1993 Worlds Columbian Exposition. In that capacity it served as the Hall of Congress for the exposition. The Art Institute was formerly in a Norman-Gothic structure on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren, just two blocks south of it’s current location. That space is now occupied by the Chicago Club which made arrangements with the Art Institute to purchase the building for its growing membership. The Chicago Club is Chicago’s leading private club and many of the Art Institutes’s Board of Trustees are members of this club which include Stanley Field, Potter Palmer, and Marshall Field.
The original design for the main building was a large red-stone Romanesque building that was later rejected for the current design. The building had galleries on two floors with a staircase at that time near the rear of the building. It was intended as funds increased to build a larger grand staircase in the center of the building which they indeed do years later after World War I.
The first floor galleries were intended to show-case sculpture and the second floor was intended for drawings and paintings. At the entry there was an opening to the gallery above with railing around to provide fresh air and light, since that time and the advent of modern climate control systems that opening has been covered and ceiling lights take it’s space.
As you ascend the stairs you will note that there is something strange in the design of the ceiling above for the entire ceiling above the grand staircase is all glass and quite modern looking, not at all in line with the Beau Arts design of the building. Further, you will notice as you look around the mezzanine of the staircase that there are two rows of classical pillars on the east and west sides of the upper gallery and the east side even has arches. What this show is the unfinished plans for the building. It was intended at the time for there to be colonnades all around the second floor rotunda topped off with a Roman dome! However, due to restricted funds these plans were never completed and the “temporary” class ceiling over the grand staircase has become permanent.
As is the case with many of our country’s great museums they start with one design and end up with another. Case in point, the massive stone blocks piled up on top of the entry pillars at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York were intended for sculptured figures that never received the funding. However, we must be thankful for these wonderful places for they stir our imagination and inspire us to be creative, enriched citizens.
Stephen F. Condren – Artist
Fine Arts, House Portraits, Skyline Paintings.
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