Exhibitions Archived in: 1977

Cleveland Tuti-Nama Manuscript: Origins of Mughal Painting

11 January–27 February 1977

The Tuti-Nama manuscript is the best representation of the formative stages of the Mughal style, which originated at the Emperor Akbar’s court, where Persian and Indian painters gathered and their different traditions merged. Professor Pramod Chandra has published on the Tuti-Nama Manuscript, which follows in the same literary tradition as... more »

New Acquisition by Mark Rothko

March 1977

The Smart Museum acquired a large painting by Mark Rothko as the result of a recent gift of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, who acquired the painting from the artist himself. Curator and Catalogue: Russell Brown, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art ... more »

The Trained Eye: The Art Historian as Photographer

9 March–1 May 1977

In teaching the history of art, we are often bound by the constraints of reproductions and facsimiles of the original images or objects. Though this type of photography is usually intended to be representative, the subjectivities and inclinations of the photographer invariably plays a part. These difficulties and advantages are... more »

Paintings, Drawings and Prints by William Russell Flint, R. A. (1880-1969)

May–June 1977

This collection of works by noted Scottish painter William Russell Flint reveals the broad range of the artist’s talents and enriches the Gallery’s collections with prime examples of the work of this famous academician of the first half of the twentieth century. Curator: Jill L. Thomas, graduate student intern Funding... more »

Rodin's Burghers of Calais from The Cantor, Fitzgerald Collection

11 May–19 June 1977

Auguste Rodin’s monumental sculpture, The Burghers of Calais, is the final result of multiple studies also done in bronze, 18 of which are now in the Cantor, Fitzgerald Collection in Beverly Hills, California. these objects, which are accompanied by descriptive photographs, detail how Rodin was able to design and construct... more »

Contemporary Japanese Prints from the Oliver Statler Collection

13 July–28 August, 1977

This marks the first public exhibition of more than eighty prints from the Oliver Statler Collection of the Smart Museum of Art. This collection showcases fourteen of Japan’s most prominent contemporary printmakers including Hiratsuka Un’ichi, Saito Kiyoshi and Yamaguchi Gen. The prints were presented to Mr. Statler, a professor at... more »

Artists View the Law in the Twentieth Century

5 October–27 November 1977

This exhibition commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of Chicago Law School and includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and photographs that deal with an evolving public perception of the law during the past seventy-five years. These works range from Kenyon Cox’s Reign of Law made for the New York... more »

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