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2. The Art Institute, founded in 1879, now has approximately 300,000 works
of art in its permanent collection, stewarded by eleven curatorial
departments and nearly 500 employees. This collection is housed in eight
buildings—nearly one million square feet—at the heart of Chicago, one
block from Lake Michigan and serving as the eastern anchor of the city's
downtown.
1.5 million visitors annually from around the globe.

3. Gunsaulus Hall, a windowless walkway, had collection of
European arms and armours

4. Jean Antoine
Houdon (French
Neoclassical
Sculptor, 1741-
1828)
Bust of Anne
Marie Louise
Thomas se
Domangeville de
Serilly

5. Paul Albert
Bartholome
(French 1848-
1928)
Lamenting Group

6. Paul Albert
Bartholome
(French 1848-
1928)
Lamenting Group

8. Paul Albert
Bartholome
(French 1848-
1928)
Lamenting Group

9. From the founding of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1879, architectural fragments have played an important educational role in
the museum. The first artifacts acquired by the Art Institute were dramatic full-scale plaster casts of the great monument of
Europe, such as the Parthenon frieze at the top of the east walls of the gallery. More recently, the Art Institute has received
additional fragments and landmark buildings have been restored in the 1980s and 1990s.

10. In order for the
architectural
fragments
collection to
serve an
educational
function, this
permanent
exhibition has
been
organized in
four sections,
that illustrate
the Chicago
architecture in
the last century

11. Recreation of
original Stock
Exchange
Trading Room

12. Healy and
Millet Stained
glass of The
Auditorium
Theater (1887-
89) removed
during
restoration in
1974
The Auditorium Theater The Auditorium Theater
The Auditorium Theater

13. John Donoghue (American 1853-1903)
Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory
after the Battle of Salamis

15. John Donoghue
(American 1853-
1903)
Young Sophocles
Leading the
Chorus of Victory
after the Battle of
Salamis
Details

16. Joseph Mozier
(1812 - 1870)
Pocahontas

17. Joseph Mozier
(1812 - 1870)
was an American
sculptor active in
Italy.
Pocahontas

18. Joseph Mozier
(1812 - 1870)
Pocahontas

19. The Roger McCormick
Memorial Court houses a
selection of the Art Institute’s
19th-century American
sculptures, many by
expatriates who lived in
Rome or trained in Paris.
Allegorical sculpture was an
important teaching tool in the
Victorian age, and so the
moralizing stories of Jeptha’s
Daughter; Nydia (from
Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Last
Days of Pompeii);
Pocahontas; Zenobia, Queen
of Palmyra; and other
historical and literary figures
abound.
The Roger McCormick
Memorial Court
Galleries of American Art
Sculpture Court

20. The collection
also contains
personifications
of Amor Caritas
(Angel of
Charity), Solitude,
and Truth. The
courtyard is
bathed in natural
light, which allows
the white marbles
to take on hues of
blue, pink, or
yellow at various
times of day.
Other small-scale
sculptures are
placed
throughout the
galleries of
American Art
Galleries of
American Art
Sculpture Court

21. Daniel Chester
French (1850 –
1931), one of the
most prolific and
acclaimed
American
sculptors of the
late nineteenth
and early twentieth
centuries, is best
known for his
monumental work,
the statue of
Abraham Lincoln
(1920) in the
Lincoln Memorial,
Washington, D.C.
Truth, 1900

22. Daniel Chester
French (1850 –
1931)
Truth, 1900

23. Daniel Chester
French (1850 –
1931)
Truth, 1900

24. Augustus Saint
Gaudens (American,
1848–1907)
Amor Caritas

26. This is a
smaller
version of the
bronze statue,
now in the
Musee de
Louvre in
Paris, for
which Auguste
Saint-
Gaudens won
the grand
prize at the
1900 Paris
Exposition
Universelle.
AugustusSaintGaudens-VioletSargent,modeled1890

27. Augustus Saint
Gaudens
(American, 1848–
1907)
Amor Caritas

28. Chauncey
Bradley Ives
(1810-1894)
Jephtha's
Daughter

29. Jephthah
appears in the
Biblical Book of
Judges as a
judge over Israel
for a period of six
years. He lived in
Gilead and was a
member of the
tribe of
Manasseh.
Jephthah led the
Israelites in
battle against
Ammon and,
after defeating
the Ammonites,
fulfilled a rash
vow of his, by
sacrificing his
daughter.

34. Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894)
Jephtha's Daughter

35. Randolph Rogers
(1825-1892)
Nydia, The Blind
Flower Girl of
Pompeii

36. The Last Days of Pompeii
is a novel written by the
baron Edward Bulwer-
Lytton in 1834. The novel
was inspired by the
painting The Last Day of
Pompeii by the Russian
painter Karl Briullov, which
Bulwer-Lytton had seen in
Milan.

37. Nydia, the Blind
Flower Girl of
Pompeii by
American
sculptor
Randolph Rogers
(1856), was
based on a
character from

38. Randolph Rogers
(1825-1892)
The Lost Pleiade

39. Personification of
one of the stars in
the constellation
called the
Pleiades
searches the
heavens. (She
forfeited her
position among
her six sister
stars because
she dared to
marry a mortal.)

40. Greek mythology
often provided
the content for
American
nineteenth-
century sculpture:
the connection to
the respected
academic
tradition of the
ancient Greeks
rendered the
depiction of the
nude more
acceptable to a
conservative
audience

43. Her windswept
hair and drapery,
and her pose,
convey a distinct
sense of forward
motion, a difficult
effect to achieve
in marble.
Randolph Rogers
(1825-1892)
The Lost Pleiade

46. Lorado Taft
(1860-1936)
The Solitude of the
Soul

47. Lorado Taft
(1860-1936)
The Solitude of the Soul

48. "The Solitude of
the Soul", there's a
concept which Taft
explained as..
"The thought is the
eternally present
fact that however
closely we may be
thrown together by
circumstances..
we are unknown to
each other."

54. Two other versions are known to exist. One is a near-same-sized plaster cast,
possibly as early as 1901 and probably one of the models shown in the 19ll
photographs, now in the collection of American art at the Dayton Art Institute.
The other is a smaller but much finer version cast in bronze, presently in the
collection of the Krannert Art Museum on the campus of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

56. Lorado Taft
(1860-1936)
The Solitude of
the Soul

57. Hermon Atkins MacNeil
The Moqui Runner 1896

58. Hermon Atkins MacNeil
(American, 1866–1947)
The Vow of Vengeance -
1894 and
The Sun Vow

59. The Sun Vow
portrays a young
Native American
undergoing a rite
of manhood by
shooting an arrow
skyward under
the tutelage of an
older warrior.
The sculpture
displays the
artist's desire to
blend
anthropological
accuracy with the
idealized beauty
of the ancient
sculptures that he
studied in Rome.

62. Alexander Phiminster
Proctor
(1862-1950)
On the War Trail
"On the War Trail" is
a reduced version of
monumental bronze
commissioned for the
Civic Center in
Denver Colorado.
Dignified and erect,
with the Native
America's spear
thrust defiantly
outward, horse and
rider provide a
striking anecdote to
the dejected, broken
subject of James
Earle Fraser's work,
"The End of Trail"..

63. Alexander
Phiminster
Proctor
(1862-1950)
On the War Trail

64. James Earle Fraser
(1876-1953)
End of Trail

65. "The trail is lost, the
path is hid, and winds
that blow from out the
ages sweep me on to
that chill borderland
where Time's spent
sands engulf lost
peoples and lost
trails."
- Marion Manville
Pope.
James Earle Fraser
(1876-1953)
End of Trail

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