Exhibitions Archived in: 2009

Aaron Siskind: The Thing Itself

Aaron Siskind: The Thing Itself

January 13 – May 10, 2009

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) is best known for his abstract photographs, often of natural forms or architectural features that were manipulated in order to produce unfamiliar images.... more »

Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H. C. Westermann Study Collection

Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H. C. Westermann Study Collection

April 2 – September 6, 2009

Horace Clifford (H. C.) Westermann (1922–1981) created a meticulously crafted and highly personal body of work that defies easy categorization.... more »

The Scholar's Studio: Selections from the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection

The Scholar's Studio: Selections from the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection

May 5 – October 18, 2009

Edward A. Maser was the first director of the Smart Museum and a scholar of the baroque. A professor of art history at the University of Chicago, he shaped the early years of the Museum, guiding the development of its artistic and academic character through judicious acquisitions of medieval,... more »

Malleable Likeness and the Photographic Portrait

Malleable Likeness and the Photographic Portrait

May 19 – August 30, 2009

Although portraits have been produced for centuries in a variety of media, photography has played a pivotal role in the genre's history. To a large extent, the photographic portrait's popularity stemmed from the medium's capacity to quickly and inexpensively reproduce a sitter's appearance with an unprecedented degree of mimetic... more »

Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape

Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape

September 8, 2009 – May 2, 2010

During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time. He produced several thousand works in this short period, mostly of highly stylized landscapes.... more »

Heartland

Heartland

October 1, 2009 – January 17, 2010

Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. Organized by the Smart Museum of Art and the Van Abbemuseum, one of Europe’s premier contemporary art institutions, this exhibition offers an idiosyncratic look at the... more »

Sites to Behold: Travels in Eighteenth-Century Rome

Sites to Behold: Travels in Eighteenth-Century Rome

November 3, 2009 – April 11, 2010

Rome has long been a leading tourist destination. Many of the "must-see" sites were codified centuries ago as part of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by young aristocrats to complete their education and give them experience of the world. But by the late eighteenth century, the once-exclusive Grand Tour... more »

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