Chicago Skyline 1926
Chicago skyline
A photograph of the Chicago skyline in 1926.
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1926
Creative Commons generic license
Stanley McCormick Memorial Court (North Garden)
Public Fountain
The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is an encyclopedic art museum located in Chicago's Grant Park. It features a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection. Its holdings also include American art, Old Masters, European and American decorative arts, Asian art, modern and contemporary art, and architecture and industrial and graphic design. In addition, it houses the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries.
Tracing its history to a free art school and gallery founded in 1866, the museum is located at 111 South Michigan Avenue in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District. It is associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is overseen by Director and President Douglas Druick. At one million square feet, it is the second largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanley_McCormick_Memorial_Court_(North_Garden),_The_Art_Institute_of_Chicago,_Chicago,_Illinois_(9181727890).jpg#metadata
1866
JPEG
en
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
Gurgolye Fountain
Public Monument
In the mid-1890s, the West Park Commissioners installed a cast-iron fountain in Wicker Park. The fountain had an a cut granite outer basin with finials and floral urns. Produced by J.L. Mott Ironworks Company, the two-tiered fountain featured foliage motifs and small gargoyle faces which spouted water. Because of the faces, the company named this the Gurgoyle Fountain.
In 1908, Jens Jensen, then the superintendent of the West Park System, decided to remove the fountain. Retaining the granite outer basin, Jensen replaced the ornamental fountain with a jet spray, converting the lower basin into a children’s wading pool.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, as community members became increasingly interested in the history of the park, the Chicago Park District hired the Robinson Iron Company to recreate the historic fountain. The Alabama-based company, which owns many of the old J.L. Mott pattern books and molds, used such resources to reproduce the original Wicker Park fountain. Since the completion of the recast Gurgolye Fountain in 2001, the Wicker Park Garden Club has worked closely with the Chicago Park District to add other historically-appropriate elements to the landscape, including urns and benches. The club plants and tends the floral installations in the urns, as well as lush gardens along the west side of the park.
Robinson Iron, reproduction; J.L. Mott Ironworks, original sculptor/fabricator
https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/gurgolye-fountain
1892
cast-iron
en
Wicker Park, East of W. Damen Avenue and south of the field house
Belding School Mural
Chicago (Illinois)--Artworks--20th century
The Belding School contains a WPA mural “Children’s Activities” by Roberta Elvis.
Roberta Elvis
Originally posted in the New Deal Art Registry: http://www.newdealartregistry.org/
Federal Art Project (FAP)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
ca. 1930-1940
Tara Cajacob
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 15′ x 5’4″
Art work
41.958277, -87.7340433
Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
Art, American — Illinois — Chicago — 20th Century — Exhibitions.
Chicago's fine arts have long languished in the shadow of the city's architectural riches, but their time has finally come, most prominently as the focus of the final major exhibition at Chicago's Terra Museum of American Art. The attendant catalog of the Terra Museum's fall 2004 exhibition, "Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New", is the first-ever survey by a major art museum of early American modernist works created by Chicago artists.At the opening of the twentieth century, Chicago was regarded as the quintessential modern city that would provide fertile soil for a new national art. The debut of impressionism at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 bore early witness to this expectation as it marked the arrival of modern art in Chicago. In the midst of great local controversy, and echoing debates raging at the time in New York and Paris, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago incorporated modernism into its curriculum, a move that led Chicago-trained artists to experiment in and reinterpret the prominent art movements of their time. Here, for the first time, this work is showcased. This volume focuses on the rich body of artistic work produced during the city's artistic "golden age," the period from the 1893 Exposition through the end of World War II. Noted art scholars contribute to the volume with essays that explore how Chicago painters created a unique niche in these transformative international art movements--from the impressionism of the 1800s to the social realism and surrealism of the 1930s and 1940s--and forged a regional consciousness through experimental means. This detailed and lavishly illustrated catalog examines the larger issues and concerns that shaped art in Chicago during this period, offering a new and valuable addition to regional American art scholarship and a fitting farewell for one of Chicago's most beloved art museums.
Kennedy, Elizabeth 1949-
Greenhouse, Wendy 1955-
Schulman, Daniel
Weininger, Susan
Chicago Public Library https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/show/998898126
Chicago [Ill.] : Terra Museum of American Art : Terra Foundation for the Arts : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, c2004.
2004
Tara Cajacob
Copyright held by the University of Chicago Press.
bound print book
English
print book
9780932171412
1893-1945
Hotel Atlantic Lobby Postcard
Chicago (Illinois)--Hotel history--20th century
A colorized photograph portraying the interior lobby of the Hotel Atlantic in Chicago, Ill. on the front of a postcard.
Private Collection of Tara Cajacob
ca. 1910-1920
Tara Cajacob
Print, graphic on paper
JPG
English
Still Life
PC1910_003
3.75"W x 2.5"H
Washington Park Garden Postcard
Chicago (Illinois)--Landscape history--20th century
A colorized photograph of the garden in Washington Park, Chicago, Ill. appearing on the front of a postcard.
Private Collection of Tara Cajacob
ca. 1910-1920
Tara Cajacob
Print, graphic on paper
JPG
English
Still Image
PC1910_002
Washington Street Looking East from Wells Street Postcard
Chicago (Illinois)--Architectural history--20th century
A postcard portraying an exterior day view of Washington Street looking East from Wells Street in Chicago, Illinois.
Private Collection of Tara Cajacob
ca. 1910 - 1925
Tara Cajacob
Print, graphic on paper
JPG
English
Still Image
PC1910_313
Chicago Accident Insurance Bldgs. Postcard
Chicago (Illinois)--Architectural history--20th century
A postcard portraying an exterior day view of the Accident Insurance Buildings in Chicago, Illinois. The image features a scene of Michigan Avenue showing the Tribune Tower, Wrigley and London.
Private Collection of Tara Cajacob
ca. 1910 - 1925
Tara Cajacob
Print, graphic on paper
JPG
English
Still Image
PC1910_19521
Atlantic Hotel Postcard
Chicago (Illinois)--Hotel history--20th century.
A postcard portraying an exterior night scene of the Atlantic Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
Private Collection of Tara Cajacob
ca. 1910 - 1919
Tara Cajacob
Print, graphic on paper
JPEG
English
Still Image
PC1910_001