The
Renaissance
Society

Exhibitions

1939

Edmund Giesbert Drawings and Paintings Dec 01 – December 29, 1939

Paintings by Famous Pre-Raphaelites Nov 17 – December 3, 1939

Richard J. Neutra Nov 11 – November 29, 1939

Modern Sculpture Oct 17 – November 17, 1939

Edmund Giesbert LECTURE: Adventures in Dalmatia June 1, 1939

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Paintings Apr 07 – May 7, 1939

Central European Art Feb 14 – March 14, 1939

Ursula Wolff Photographs of Greek Sculpture and Architecture Jan 12 – February 10, 1939

1938

Wood Carvings and Paintings Brought from Bali by Mr. and Mrs. William B. Benton May 25 – June 7, 1938

Robert Harshe May 25 – June 7, 1938

Fernando Germani CONCERT: Hammond electric organ recital March 28, 1938

Serge Prokofieff CONCERT: Piano Recital February 15, 1938

1937

Florence Robinson Dec 08 – January 8, 1938

Paintings by Josef Albers and E. Mistrik de Monda Nov 05 – November 30, 1937

Alexander Archipenko LECTURE: Art and the Bankruptcy of Contemporary Civilization October 27, 1937

Alexander Archipenko LECTURE: Creativeness October 20, 1937

Watercolor Renderings of Americana Oct 01 – October 31, 1937

Vincenzo Celli and his Classical Italian Ballet Company DANCE PERFORMANCE May 19, 1937

Paintings by Rainey Bennett and John Pratt May 10 – May 30, 1937

International Moderns Apr 05 – April 30, 1937

Maude Phelps Hutchins Drawings and Sculpture Feb 19 – March 20, 1937

Guy Murchie, Jr. An Exhibition of Drawings Jan 25 – February 12, 1937

1936

Francis Rhoads Morley Portrayals of Mayan Indian Subjects Dec 21 – January 20, 1937

LECTURE SERIES The Adventure of Collecting Dec 13 – March 5, 1937

Paintings and Sculpture by American Negro Artists Dec 08 – December 20, 1936

Richard Guy Walton Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings Nov 09 – November 30, 1936

Modern German Graphic Art Oct 03 – October 19, 1936

An Exhibition of the Works of John Pratt and Charles Sebree May 18 – June 10, 1936

George B. Rowley LECTURE: Form and Spirit in Far Eastern Painting May 9, 1936

Florence Ayscough MacNair and Harley Farnsworth MacNair LECTURE: Origins and Explanations of Chinese Art May 4, 1936

Elie Lascaux Paintings Apr 08 – April 22, 1936

Chicago By Night: A Ballet in Eight Harmless Insinuations DANCE April 4, 1936

Florence Ayscough MacNair LECTURE: The Connections Between Chinese Painting, Poetry, and Calligraphy March 16, 1936

Fernand Leger An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Gouaches Mar 06 – April 6, 1936

1935

Le Corbusier LECTURE: Modern Architecture November 25, 1935

Eve Watson Schutze A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings Nov 22 – December 20, 1935

Industrial Design Oct 21 – November 10, 1935

Paintings and Designs: Works Made for the W.P.A. of Illinois by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Jul 01 – August 8, 1935

Laura C. Boulton LECTURE: The Music of the Orient May 26, 1935

Laura C. Boulton PREMIERE MUSIC PRESENTATION: The First Public Presentation of the New Series of Sound and Motion Records of African Music Ensembles by Native Court Orchestras, Singers, and Dancers April 5, 1935

Georges Seurat Paintings and Drawings Feb 05 – February 25, 1935

Arnold C. Bake LECTURE: The Music and Poetry of India January 28, 1935

Robert Wallenborn CONCERT: A Program of Eighteenth-Century and Contemporary Music: Bach, Stravinsky, Mozart, Francois Poulence, Bartok, Prokofiev, Hindemith and Honegger January 27, 1935

Alexander Calder Mobiles Jan 14 – January 31, 1935

1934

Don Wallace Photographs Nov 27 – December 20, 1934

A Selection of Works by Twentieth Century Artists Jun 20 – August 20, 1934

Joseph Pijoan LECTURE: Dionysian Orgia in Art June 5, 1934

A Historical Exhibition of Bookbinding Development of the art from 3000 B.C. to the present May 07 – May 20, 1934

Irwin Panofsky LECTURE: Classical Mythology in Medieval Art March 19, 1934

Paintings and Drawings by Dufy and Survage Chester Johnson memorial exhibition March 10, 1934

Abstract Art By Four Twentieth-Century Painters: Picasso, Gris, Braque, Leger Jan 12 – February 2, 1934

Alfred Adler LECTURE: The Relation of Art to Life January 3, 1934

1933

Frederic C. Woodward LECTURE on his experiences in and impressions of the Orient December 9, 1933

Carl E. Bricken CONCERT: String Quartet in C Minor December 9, 1933

FILM SERIES Jul 03 – August 8, 1933

The Dramatic Association of the University of Chicago, directed by Frank Hurburt O'Hara PLAY PERFORMANCE: Uncle Tom's Cabin June 24, 1933

M. Kamiel Le Fevere CONCERT: Carillion recital in the cloisters of Ida Noyes June 20, 1933

Alfred Vance Churchill LECTURE: Modern Painting June 11, 1933

Martin Schutze LECTURE: Form as Meaning in Poetry and the Arts May 18, 1933

Melville J. Herskovits and Kwesi Kuntu and Ashanti Dancers LECTURE : Ritual Art in West African Life DANCE PERFORMANCE: of Ashanti ancestral dances April 17, 1933

Photographs of Forty Paintings from The Century of Progress Loan Exhibition of Fine Arts Chicago Apr 06 – May 31, 1933

Movies of Yesterday and Today FILM SERIES Apr 04 – April 25, 1933

Exhibition of Pure Line Drawings: From the Greek to the Modern Feb 16 – March 7, 1933

Byron D. McDonald LECTURE: New Odysseys for Old: Along Modern Trails to Classic Lands Where History was Born February 9, 1933

Edwin Philip Goldschmidt LECTURE: Gothic and Renaissance Bookbinding February 2, 1933

Edwin Philip Goldschmidt LECTURE: Medieval Manuscripts January 31, 1933

German Talking Motion Pictures FILM SERIES Jan 10 – January 31, 1933

Exhibition of the Laura C. Boulton Collection of Musical Instruments and Various Objects in Use in Ceremonies and Daily Life of Native Africans Jan 10 – February 10, 1933

1932

Exhibition of Caricatures and Satiric Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints by Some of the Masters of the XVIIIth, XIXth, and XXth Centuries Nov 27 – December 20, 1932

Rene Claire SCREENING: Le Million November 23, 1932

Commemorative Exhibition From the Martin A. Ryerson Collection Oct 09 – October 30, 1932

Exhibition of Fine Prints Old and New: The Albert Roulliere Memorial Collection Jun 30 – July 4, 1932

Charles L. Morgan LECTURE: Renaissance in Architecture Today June 22, 1932

An Exhibition of Paintings and Ceramics from the Hull House Art School, and of African Art, Carvings in Wood and Metal and Needlework Jun 09 – June 27, 1932

Maude Phelps Hutchins and Mortimer Adler LECTURE: Diagramatics April 27, 1932

Liturgical Art and Some Other Themes Apr 22 – May 22, 1932

Daniel Catton Rich LECTURE: Picasso in the Present Tense April 20, 1932

Drawings and Paintings by the Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlinsky, Kandinsky, Klee Apr 16 – April 19, 1932

Isamu Noguchi Drawings and Sculpture Apr 07 – April 15, 1932

Ernest P. Lane LECTURE: Mathematical Solids March 14, 1932

Harry A. Bigelow, Modulpe Paris, and the World's Fair Male Afro-American Chorus LECTURE AND CONCERT February 7, 1932

Fifth Annual Exhibition of Modern French Painting Feb 07 – February 21, 1932

Arthur Pope LECTURE: General Principles of Persian Art January 15, 1932

Small Sculptures and Drawings by Sculptors Jan 05 – January 24, 1932

1931

Florence Dibble Bartlett LECTURE: Peasant Life and Art in Sweden December 29, 1931

Fernand Leger SCREENING: Le Ballet Mecanique November 24, 1931

Thomas Whittemore LECTURE: Ancient Monastery Paintings in the Arabian Desert November 4, 1931

Byzantine and Early Christian Art of the East Oct 28 – November 12, 1931

The Art of Modern Hungary Oct 01 – October 24, 1931

Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints Jul 02 – August 16, 1931

Morton D. Zabel LECTURE: Degas in his Age April 28, 1931

Exhibition of American Primitives Collected by The Newark Museum and of Samplers from the Collection of James W. Walker of Chicago Apr 22 – May 3, 1931

Masters of Religious Art Apr 07 – April 28, 1931

The Guelph Treasure Mar 31 – April 21, 1931

An Exhibition of Religious Art by Artists of Chicago and Environs Mar 24 – April 15, 1931

Maude Phelps Hutchins, Alfeo Faggi, John B. Storrs: An Exhibition of Drawings by Three American Sculptors Mar 02 – March 15, 1931

George E. Downing LECTURE: Cezanne and the French Classic Tradition March 2, 1931

An Exhibition of Original Pictures in Colored Chalk Feb 16 – March 1, 1931

Modern French Paintings Jan 26 – February 8, 1931

Masters of Ukio-ye and Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Western Prints Jan 05 – January 17, 1931

1930

Modern American Architecture Dec 02 – December 15, 1930

Exhibition of Fifteen Paintings and Some Prints by Henri Matisse and of Persian and Indian Miniatures of the Fourteenth to Nineteenth Centuries Nov 25 – November 30, 1930

James Westfall Thompson LECTURE:The Reflection of Economic and Social Changes in Medieval Architecture November 13, 1930

Teng Kwei Paintings Nov 01 – November 11, 1930

Auguste V. Declos LECTURE: French Painting in the Last Twenty-five Years October 23, 1930

Modern Austrian Painting Oct 07 – October 26, 1930

Modern Art Jul 01 – August 20, 1930

Morris Topchevsky LECTURE: Contemporary Art in Mexico May 21, 1930

Thornton Wilder LECTURE: Three English Letter Writers: Horace Walpole, William Cowper, and Edward Fitzgerald May 13, 1930

Daniel Catton Rich LECTURE: Delacroix, the Hero of Painting April 17, 1930

Modern European and Antique Oriental Art Apr 07 – April 14, 1930

Exhibition of Paintings Selected from the Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity at the Art Institute of Chicago Mar 12 – March 26, 1930

John Shapley LECTURE on Persian Art March 8, 1930

Examples of Religious Art from the Early Renaissance to the Present Time Feb 20 – March 7, 1930

Modern French Paintings Feb 04 – February 18, 1930

A Collection of Medieval Illumination Jan 06 – January 18, 1930