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When Miss Inquisitive Poked Hercules at the 1893 World’s Fair
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When Miss Inquisitive Poked Hercules at the 1893 World’s Fair

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When Miss Inquisitive Poked Hercules at the 1893 World’s Fair

For six months in 1893, much of the world’s greatest artworks were on exhibit in the Art Place at the World’s Fair in Chicago. Not everyone in town knew how to behave themselves around it. The Palace of Fine Arts by Childe Hassam. Within weeks of the opening of the Columbian Exposition, one oil painting was nearly damaged by an overly enthusiastic visitor to the galleries. Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestes was one [...]

By Scott|2023-04-09T09:01:06-05:00January 25th, 2022|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Palace of Fine Arts|0 Comments

124. Picturesque World’s Fair – State Buildings Looking South
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124. Picturesque World’s Fair – State Buildings Looking South

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124. Picturesque World’s Fair – State Buildings Looking South

STATE BUILDINGS—LOOKING SOUTH.—The city of State Buildings at the north end of the Fair Grounds afforded many interesting bird's-eye views, of which one of the prettiest is given in the accompanying illustration. The view taken is from an elevated point at the northern extremity of the inclosed area, and very nearly at the center east and west. In the foreground, at the right, appears the log-built chalet of Idaho, beyond which is the Maryland Building, the gable of that [...]

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 3
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 3

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 3

Continued from Part 2 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1880. Charmed with the wonders of the White City As Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi prepared to depart Chicago, he was leaving behind his name with the son of a new friend, and he was leaving behind his statue of Washington and Lafayette with an uncertain future. Although Bartholdi reportedly had planned for only a two-week sojourn in Chicago, he had stayed for three. On the afternoon of Sunday, September 24, [...]

By Scott|2024-08-18T14:50:15-05:00July 7th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Palace of Fine Arts|1 Comment

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2

Continued from Part 1 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1880. “I come to see the American side of the Fair” On September 10, 1893, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and his wife Jeanne-Émilie arrived in Chicago and settled into the Hotel Metropole. This hotel stood on Michigan Avenue at 23rd Street, just south of the tony Prairie Avenue District called home by many of Chicago’s elite citizens, including Marshall Field, George Pullman, Ferdinand ("Ferd") W. Peck, and John Jacob Glessner. [...]

By Scott|2024-01-28T12:05:19-06:00July 6th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Buffalo Bill, Carter Harrison, Columbian Liberty Bell, Eugene Field, Ferd Peck, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Harry G. Selfridge, Palace of Fine Arts, Philip Armour, Union League Club of Chicago|2 Comments

THIS IS A LOAN from Isabella Stewart Gardner
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THIS IS A LOAN from Isabella Stewart Gardner

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THIS IS A LOAN from Isabella Stewart Gardner

A new Netflix documentary This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist reveals the grievous but fascinating story of a 1990 art theft from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Two paintings from the collection (thankfully not stolen!) were loaned by Mrs. Gardner to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and exhibited in the Palace of Fine Arts. Hanging in the Swedish display in Gallery 70 was Anders Zorn’s Omnibus (1892). Mrs. Gardner purchased this 49 [...]

By Scott|2021-04-25T11:09:28-05:00April 25th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Harlow Higinbotham, Palace of Fine Arts|0 Comments

Claude Monet’s paintings at the 1893 World’s Fair
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Claude Monet’s paintings at the 1893 World’s Fair

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Claude Monet’s paintings at the 1893 World’s Fair

Irises, water lilies, and poppies can be spotted around Chicago this winter, colorful images promoting the exhibition Monet and Chicago at the Art Institute of Chicago through June 14, 2021. The show explores Chicago’s early connection to Claude Monet, whose canvases began arriving in this city around the time of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition because of a few visionary collectors. Monet paintings adorned the walls of Bertha and Potter Palmer’s “castle” in Lincoln Park, Martin A. Ryerson’s mansion [...]

By Scott|2021-12-09T04:58:43-06:00January 31st, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Claude Monet, Palace of Fine Arts|0 Comments

Christmas in the Palace of Fine Arts of the 1893 World’s Fair
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Christmas in the Palace of Fine Arts of the 1893 World’s Fair

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Christmas in the Palace of Fine Arts of the 1893 World’s Fair

More than a dozen works of art depicting Christmas themes adorned the halls of the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Edwin H. Blashfield's oil painting Christmas Bells (1891). [Image from Hitchcock, Ripley The Art of the World Illustrated in the Paintings, Statuary, and Architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition. D. Appleton, 1895.] An oil painting titled Christmas Bells (1891) by Edwin H. Blashfield hung on the north wall in Gallery 1 of the [...]

By Scott|2022-12-09T11:19:45-06:00December 25th, 2020|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Charles S. Reinhart, Edwin Blashfield, J. Alden Weir, Julian Hawthorne, Palace of Fine Arts|0 Comments

“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 15: The Palace of Art
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 15: The Palace of Art

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 15: The Palace of Art

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 14 What is "Art?" Perhaps we are not qualified to say, but to us, “It” is “Truth.” Not merely truth of detail in drawing; though that is necessary to a finished picture, not merely truth of coloring; though that also, must be had, but truth in its highest sense. When a man stands near to the great heart of all, when he sees the meaning [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:19:43-05:00November 27th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Palace of Fine Arts|2 Comments

Dec. 2 2020: “Building Chicago’s Public Spaces with Julia Bachrach” (online)
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Dec. 2 2020: “Building Chicago’s Public Spaces with Julia Bachrach” (online)

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Dec. 2 2020: “Building Chicago’s Public Spaces with Julia Bachrach” (online)

The Chicago Public Library, in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Center, will host an online presentation on "Building Chicago’s Public Spaces" by Chicago parks historian Julia Bachrach. The talk on Wednesday, December 2, from 6-7 pm, is free but registration is required: https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/5f9c4a02e085ab5c2caf057d Bachrach will highlight two major architectural themes in park history: the Museum of Science and Industry—built as the Palace of Fine Arts for the World’s Columbian Exposition—and the fieldhouse, an influential building type invented in Chicago. She will [...]