THE ART PROJECT

Our main focus is the history of Chicago art and artists. American art history is more fully understood through the history of art in its second largest city whose artists forged their own bold path through impressionism, modernism, and post-modernism—defined by independence, experimentation, and personal vision. From the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 to the transformative impact of the 1913 Armory Show at the Art Institute, to groundbreaking engagements with surrealism and abstraction, Chicago artists both adopted and challenged prevailing artistic conventions, creating new directions in American art.

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If your organization would enjoy an historical slide lecture on any aspect of Chicago art, please contact us. Here is a link to one of many lectures on a variety of such topics.

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Alongside this we collect groundbreaking artists with regional, national, and international reputations whose works have shaped contemporary art. Some are connected to Chicago, many are not; each has earned an established reputation through innovation, influence, and a distinctive artistic voice.

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