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Past Exhibitions

Alyce Frank: Recent Landscapes

July 2–August 18, 1996

An exhibition of recent paintings by Alyce Frank (B.A. 1950) was mounted as part of an alumni artists series. 

Looking to Learn: Visual Pedagogy at the University of Chicago

May 7–June 9, 1996

A history of the University that addresses the ways in which objects, artifacts, and images have been collected, deployed, and displayed

Peasants and “Primitivism”: French Prints from Millet to Gauguin

April 18–June 9, 1996

This exhibition traced the rise of two related types of “primitivism” in nineteenth-century France

Drawings from the Collection of The Arts Club of Chicago

March 19–June 2, 1996

Eleven drawings from the permanent collection of The Arts Club of Chicago

Mark Rothko: The Spirit of Myth, Early Paintings from the 1930s and 1940s

January 18–March 17, 1996

An in-depth look at the early years of one of the most important American artists of this century

The Sculptural Head as Image

December 12, 1995–March 10, 1996

The convention of the portrait head from antiquity to the present

The Studio Museum in Harlem: Twenty-Five Years of African-American Art

October 19–December 10, 1995

This exhibition marked the first national tour of art from the collection of The Studio Museum in Harlem

Woman in the Eyes of Man: Images of Women in Japanese Art

September 12–December 3, 1995

Artistic depictions of women throughout Japanese history

MFA 1995

July 13–August 27, 1995

Works by Louis Brandt, Anthony Elms, Marc Fischer, Erik S. Lieber, Morgan Santander, Duncan Webb, and Karen Louise Wilson.

20/20: Twenty Master Drawings for 20 Years

June 27–September 3, 1995

20 still lifes, landscapes, allegories, historical scenes, and life drawings from the collection