International studio (57.1915/1916)

American Art at the Chicago Institute


AN OLD PASTURE

BY GEORGE BRUESTLE

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/\ INSTITUTE—NOTES BY
\ L. C. DRISCOLL
The twenty-eighth annual exhi-
bition of American painting and sculpture at the
Art Institute of Chicago is over. Some four
hundred examples of American effort, failure and
success, have returned to the darkness of their
packing boxes; and the last belated visitors puff
up the grand stairway to confront the black cur-
tain that guards the mysteries of naked walls.
There were eleven galleries used this year, the
single alignment of a large part of the exhibition
devouring space. Most of our old friends were
there and a few new ones. One regretted that
some of the big men were not represented by more
important works; but on the whole the exhibition
was really representative of the year’s work.
To the cursory survey it appeared very much
like the shows of several years ago. But it was


SELF-PORTRAIT

BY HARRIET BLACKSTONE

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