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Past Exhibitions

Blunt Object

September 11 - October 25, 1998

Blunt Object offered a humorous and fresh look at contemporary sculpture. 

Recent Acquisitions: Modern and Contemporary Art

August 25–October 18, 1998

This intimate exhibition showcased twentieth-century works acquired by the Smart Museum since 1996

Get Out: Nine Artists from Midway Studios, University of Chicago

July 16–August 9, 1998

This exhibition presented work by nine students graduating from the University of Chicago’s Midway Studios. 

Felix Nussbaum: Assimulation and Dissimulation

May 21–August 30, 1998

 Two-sided painting by German artist Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944)

The Sublime and the Fantastic: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection

May 14—June 28, 1998

This exhibition explored the range and depth of African artistic sensibility through 75 works of sub-Saharan art dating from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries. 

Jerome Carlin: Autobiographical Paintings

April 9–June 14, 1998

Part of the Smart Museum’s alumni artists series, this was an exhibition of paintings by Jerome Carlin (Ph.D. 156, Sociology).

Archibald Knox: Liberty of London Designer and Master of British Art Nouveau

February 12–April 19, 1998

Archibald Knox (1864–1933) is one of the most influential designers in modern British history.

Still More Distant Journeys: The Artistic Emigrations of Lasar Segall

October 16, 1997–January 4, 1998

Lasar Segall’s work presented a range of issues significant to today’s world of global culture and politics.

Post-Pop, Post-Pictures

August 22 – September 21, 1997

Exhibition highlights eleven young abstract painters from Chicago, New York and Texas

EXIT 7: Seven Artists from Midway Studios

July 10 – August 5, 1997

The fourteenth annual Midway Studios graduate exhibition