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Exhibitions

1949

47th Anniversary Exhibition Nov 13 – December 9, 1949

Work of the Cranbrook Academy of Art Oct 05 – October 22, 1949

Sepp Frank Etchings Jul 01 – August 31, 1949

Frederick J. Waugh, N.A. Sea Paintings Jun 01 – June 30, 1949

Artist Members Exhibition May 23 – June 23, 1949

An Exhibition in Honor of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Apr 24 – May 15, 1949

Schweikher & Elting, Architects Mar 21 – April 14, 1949

Compositions by Ernst Levy CONCERT March 6, 1949

Hans Alten, baritone, with Hilde Freund at the piano CONCERT: A Franz Schubert Recital March 5, 1949

Composititons by Hugo Kauder CONCERT February 27, 1949

Historical Techniques of Painting and Drawing Feb 15 – March 10, 1949

Boris Zlatich, violinist CONCERT: A Sonata Recital February 6, 1949

Hans Richter Jan 16 – February 5, 1949

1948

Triumph Over Time: Greece Ancient and Modern FILM SCREENING November 30, 1948

George Grosz, William Gropper, Yasui Kuniyoshi, Adolf Dehn Early Drawings Nov 28 – January 6, 1949

Form at Play Oct 14 – November 13, 1948

Beatrice Levy and Adrian Troy Aug 16 – September 15, 1948

Charles Smith Jul 20 – August 12, 1948

Victor Hammer May 20 – June 19, 1948

Sculptor's Fountains Apr 04 – May 8, 1948

Bernice Holms, Jose Casiro, and Jerome Andrews DANCE RECITAL February 22, 1948

Elio Gianturco LECTURE and RECITAL: Italian Cembalists of the Eighteenth Century, or the Pre-Mozartians February 18, 1948

Sculpture and Sculptors' Drawings and Artwork by Students at Black Mountain College Feb 03 – March 3, 1948

Hilde Freund and Hans Alten CONCERT of works by Robert Schumann January 17, 1948

Visual and Non-Visual Art Expression Jan 09 – January 31, 1948

1947

The Music Master OPERA PERFORMANCE Dec 07 – December 9, 1947

Theo van Doesburg Paintings, Drawings, Photographs and Architectural Drawings Oct 15 – November 8, 1947

Serge Chermayeff LECTURE: Art in Society October 7, 1947

Representative Works by Chicago Artists Jul 12 – August 8, 1947

Mies van der Rohe Architecture May 16 – June 7, 1947

I. Rice Pereira and Medard Klein Paintings Apr 07 – April 29, 1947

Prints and Sculpture by Kathe Kollwitz Feb 04 – February 28, 1947

Helen Balfour Morrison The Inheritance Jan 12 – January 30, 1947

1946

The Paintings and Drawings of Boardman Robinson Nov 24 – December 19, 1946

Contemporary Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin Oct 30 – November 20, 1946

Pictures Up to $20.00 Sep 26 – October 17, 1946

Paul Klee Jun 05 – June 24, 1946

An Exhibition of Drawings and Prints by English Artists of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Apr 29 – May 26, 1946

Alfred H. Barr, Jr. LECTURE: Art in Our World April 17, 1946

Alfeo Faggi Mar 14 – April 2, 1946

An Exhibition of Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, with Watercolors by Charles Demuth and Carl Kahler Jan 29 – February 28, 1946

Drawings by Jacques Lipchitz and Paintings in Watercolor and Gouache by Karl Nolde Jan 05 – January 24, 1946

1945

Coptic Textiles and Paintings by Marsden Hartley and Max Weber Nov 11 – December 6, 1945

Georges Rouault Paintings and Prints Oct 05 – October 31, 1945

Painting and Sculpture by Chicago Artists May 11 – June 6, 1945

Modern Dutch Architecture and City Planning Mar 16 – March 31, 1945

John Sloan A Retrospective Exhibition of Etchings Feb 16 – March 13, 1945

Contemporary Illustrated Books Jan 28 – February 10, 1945

1944

The Sydney and Julia Teller Collection of Copper and Brass Dec 03 – December 16, 1944

Lyonel Feininger Retrospective Exhibition of Watercolors and Drawings, 1909 - 1941 Nov 06 – November 29, 1944

New Names in American Art Oct 07 – October 31, 1944

Drawings by Contemporary Artists May 20 – June 10, 1944

Paintings by Emil Armin Mar 19 – April 15, 1944

Original Prints with Facsimiles of Drawings and Watercolors by Peter Brueghel the Elder Feb 16 – March 15, 1944

Marli Ehrman Textiles Jan 10 – January 31, 1944

Paintings by Martyl Jan 09 – January 31, 1944

1943

Paintings in Oil and Watercolor by a Group of Milwaukee Artists Nov 07 – December 4, 1943

George Josimovich, Max Kahn, Eleanor Cohen, Mario Ubaldi, Emmanuel Viviano, and Freeman Schoolcraft May 07 – June 16, 1943

Wood Carvings by Patrocino Barela and Spanish Colonial Design of the Southwest Feb 17 – February 17, 1942

Self-Portraits Through the Ages Jan 24 – January 30, 1943

1942

Roff Beman A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings Nov 29 – December 19, 1942

Gustaf Dalstrom Watercolors and Drawings Nov 29 – December 19, 1942

Northwest Coast Indian Art Nov 01 – November 21, 1942

American Humor: Cartoons from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present May 11 – May 30, 1942

War Art Apr 12 – May 2, 1942

Contemporary American Lithographers Mar 12 – March 31, 1942

Fifteen American Sculptors Museum of Modern Art Traveling Exhibition Mar 12 – March 31, 1942

John Sloan Contemporary Work in Painting, 1928-1940 Feb 08 – March 7, 1942

1941

Winslow Homer to Present-Day Chicago: An Exhibition of American Watercolors Nov 29 – December 20, 1941

Works by Chicago Artists Loaned by Chicago Collectors Nov 02 – November 22, 1941

Ancient Chinese Paintings Sep 28 – October 25, 1941

Antonio Sotomayor Caricatures Jul 01 – July 31, 1941

Exhibition of Contemporary Art from the Countries of the Western Hemisphere May 06 – May 29, 1941

Henri Frankfort LECTURE: The Sculpture of Persepolis and its Place in the History of Art May 1, 1941

Book Illustrations by Modern American Artists Apr 01 – April 30, 1941

Harald Schade Paintings Mar 04 – March 28, 1941

Paintings by Elisabet Kormendi-Feiervary and Sculpture by Eugen Kormendi Feb 07 – February 28, 1941

Drawings by Modern Artists of Bali Jan 27 – February 5, 1941

Jean Vigoureux Paintings and Drawings Jan 03 – January 21, 1941

1940

Exhibition of Hand-Woven Textiles Nov 19 – November 29, 1940

Modern Chinese Paintings by Jen Po-Nien and the Monk Hsu Ku Oct 08 – November 8, 1940

South American Andean Arts and Handicrafts May 06 – May 29, 1940

Exhibition of American Primitives and Copies of the Bishop Hill Paintings by the Index of American Design Apr 03 – April 30, 1940

Elizabeth Haseltine Hibbard Sculpture Feb 06 – March 1, 1940

An Exhibition of Original Drawings by Masters of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries and Artists of the Present Day Jan 09 – January 31, 1940

Walter Pach LECTURE: The Classical Elements in Modern Art January 7, 1940