ILLINOIS HISTORICAL ART PROJECT
The Coming of the Modern Era - Prints by American Artists [click on any image to begin slideshow]
As industrialization and the modern age swept across America it brought significant change in how we lived our lives. Numerous American print makers depicted the changes they encountered in their everyday lives. This museum ready exhibition is available at no charge. A catalogue with important essays accompanies these works. The topics range from old versus new, social commentary and progress - especially as embodied in the Century of Progress World's Fair.
X-Rays (Flouroscope And Department Of The Interior) A consultation on the interior arrangements of John Sloan, this aquatint has always amused friends in the medical profession.
Avenue of the Allies
Americana
Demolition
The Last of N.Y. Ghetto or Passing of the East Side or East Side Park
Urban Demolition
Slum Clearance
Demolishing old Madison Square Garden
Men of Steel
The Riveters The scene depicted is the construction of the George Washington Bridge in New york. "Not far from where we lived, the great new George Washington Bridge across the Hudson to the New Jersey shore was slowly taking shape... This was steel at its very best, and I could not resist the opportunity of recording the bridge at its various stages of construction in a series of etching plates."
The Builders
Birth of a Skyscraper
The Doomed Tree
The Last Tree
Soaring Steel [Building of the Civic Opera House, Chicago]
Civic Progress
Santa Cinema (1501 Broadway under construction)
Olympus
The Biggest of All, AT&T Building
Man Made Canyon
Hudson Bridge
Bridge to Babylon
Building a Babylon
Chicago, The Old and New
City Hall Square
An American Cathedral
Perugia [West 32nd Street, New York]
Pyramids of New York
Metropolis
St. Paul's Chapel
The Rising Generation
Manhattan Old and New
Extremes Meet, NYC
Today and Tomorrow [Chicago], Second Impression
Victorian Mansion--The Clear, Clear Light
Clubhouse, Colonial Dames
Laying the Pipeline
Portal No. 1 Before Flood, looking down-river [Hoover-Dam project]
Pretty Boy Dam Under Construction
Hoover Dam Project: Arizona End of Suspension Bridge