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Jean Metzinger, Soldier at a Game of Chess (Le Soldat a la partie d’ echecs), ca. 1915-1916, Oil on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago. Gift of John L. Strauss, Jr. in memory of his father, John L. Strauss, 1985.21. Public domain.
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Multiple Perspectives: Cubism in Chicago Collections

October 8 – December 1, 1991

After Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque began making Cubist art, the movement grew and developed under the care of other artists who demonstrated the increasing expressive possibilities of Cubism in the post-World War I world. These artists, French artists Albert Gleizes, Henri Laurens, Jean Metzinger, and Jacques Villon, Spaniards Juan Gris and Joan Miró, the Lithuanian Jacques Lipchitz, the American Max Weber, and the Hungarian sculptor known as Csaky, followed Picasso and Braque in problematizing form and spatial illusion.

Comprised of sixty works (paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints) from public, private, and corporate Chicago-area collections, this exhibition explores the many permutations in Cubism through artists and regions, from the first years (1911-12) until the mid 1920s. The exhibition is the result of collaboration with several private, public, and corporate Chicago collections, and will also feature works from the Smart Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

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Curator Richard A. Born and associate curator Sue Taylor.
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The exhibition was funded in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

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