The Land Beneath Our Feet: American Art at the Smart Museum
June 27 – August 25, 2013
Childe Hassam, On the Lake Front Promenade, Columbian World Exposition, 1893, Oil on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, The Harold H. Swift Bequest, 1962, 1976.146.
Tracing a chronological arc of almost a century, this exhibition showcases both familiar and lesser-known works from the Smart Museum’s collection of American art.
It presents approximately eighty works—paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs—by American artists, while exploring national context and changes in art between 1850 and 1945.
The exhibition will make a subtle nod to the hundredth anniversary of the 1913 Armory Show with paintings by two key artist-organizers, Arthur Davies and Walt Kuhn. Among other highlights are a wealth of survey photographs—including an exceptional panorama of the American West—taken by Timothy O’Sullivan and William Bell in the 1860s and 70s; celebrated etchings by James McNeill Whistler; landscape paintings by Tonalist master George Inness; and photographs by Walker Evans.
Artists
William Bell, William Merritt Chase, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Arthur Davies, Jo Davidson, Manierre Dawson, Arthur Dove, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Childe Hassam, Lewis Hine, George Inness, Rockwell Kent, Walt Kuhn, Robert Laurent, John Mowbray-Clarke, Timothy O’Sullivan, Guy Pène du Bois, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, John Storrs, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, James McNeill Whistler, and Grant Wood, among others.
Free Public Programs
We Could Build a Paradise:
Concert and Talk by Michael Lasser
June 29, 2013
Family Day: iLand
July 13, 2013
Object/Subjective
with Adrienne Brown and Corinne Rose
July 26, 2013
Third Thursday:
Draw Dawg with Tim Nickodemus
August 15, 2013
Curator Tour
August 25, 2013
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The Land Beneath Our Feet
June 26, 2013
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