Free and open to the public
Between 1850 and 1950, progressive artists, designers, and architects decisively reshaped the everyday world of objects.
An exhibition of sixteen drawings by Ben Shahn poignantly record the story and trial of a deadly fire and murder trial in Chicago.
Organized by the National Gallery of Art, this exhibition reveals the private worlds of late nineteenth-century Europe through prints and other works meant for quiet contemplation.
This exhibition presents etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, gouache drawings by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, and other works depicting Rome and nearby Tivoli
Organized by the Smart Museum of Art and the Van Abbemuseum, this exhibition offers an idiosyncratic look at the innovative forms of artistic creation taking place in the American Heartland.
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.
This exhibition considers the malleable role of likeness in portrait photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
An exhibition of works from the collection of Edward A. Maser, the first director of the Smart Museum and a scholar of the baroque.
Horace Clifford (H. C.) Westermann (1922–1981) created a meticulously crafted and highly personal body of work that defies easy categorization.
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.