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Sharing artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings department.
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Lot and His Family Led Out of Sodom https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109146/
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Lovers in a Room https://www.artic.edu/artworks/83196/
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man https://www.artic.edu/artworks/72896/
Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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In Motion, Auto - Road Between Kerohi and Nairobi, Kenya https://www.artic.edu/artworks/94020/
Gift of Ivan Albright
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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In Motion, Auto - Road Between Kerohi and Nairobi, Kenya https://www.artic.edu/artworks/94020/
Gift of Ivan Albright
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Frontispiece, from Yvette Guilbert https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6178/
Gift of Walter S. Brewster
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Sound of Silence https://www.artic.edu/artworks/240955/
Margaret Fisher Fund
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Florida Mountain Range near Deming Renchettes near Deming New Mexico https://www.artic.edu/artworks/107045/
Robert A. Lewis Fund gift
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Reclining Figure https://www.artic.edu/artworks/54717/
Gift of Frank B. Hubachek
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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"Winter"—A Skating Scene https://www.artic.edu/artworks/158276/
Gift of Arthur and Hilda Wenig
November 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Congress and double Betrothal in Vienna, plate 23 from Historical Scenes from the Life of Emperor Maximilian I from the Triumphal Arch https://www.artic.edu/artworks/249067/
Anonymous gift
November 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome, the Work of G.B. Piranesi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, London https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185220/
Gift of Estelle Miller Weedon, Carolyn Miller Short and Miranda Miller in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Middleton Miller
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Divan Japonais https://www.artic.edu/artworks/67166/
Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Dead Tree at Water's Edge, Figure Approaching with Pole https://www.artic.edu/artworks/83928/
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Cover to Histoire naturelle https://www.artic.edu/artworks/128358/
Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Untitled (Double Silhouette) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/248675/
Promised gift of The William S. Wilson Collection of Ray Johnson
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Egearat, Turkey https://www.artic.edu/artworks/94014/
Gift of Ivan Albright
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Hercules and Antaeus https://www.artic.edu/artworks/95776/
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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For to Be a Farmer's Boy https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93433/
For to Be a Farmer’s Boy was painted at Prout’s Neck, Maine, and is one of several watercolors in which Homer returned to his earlier theme of rural American childhood. Although the sky has faded and appears empty, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and FTIR analyses have yielded evidence that the artist originally painted the sky with dilute washes of chrome yellow and pink madder (both fugitive pigments), with a minute amount of vermilion, to create a glowing orange sunset. Thus, the watercolor originally showed a young boy pausing in his work of harvesting pumpkins to gaze off toward the setting sun, recalling the work of French Barbizon School artists, who influenced Homer in his early career. Their pictures of peasants pausing for a moment of contemplation at the end of their workday resonated with Homer, who showed a lifelong preference for depicting workers. Homer derived the title from an anonymous Old English song: “Though little, I’ll work as hard as a Turk, / If you’ll give me employ /To plow and sow, and reap and mow, / And be a farmer’s boy.” Interestingly, a longer version of the song includes the line “The sun went down behind yon hills,” thereby supporting findings that the watercolor originally depicted an orange sunset. Gift of Mrs. George T. Langhorne in memory of Edward Carson Waller
November 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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The Virgin and Child Reclining Against a Tree https://www.artic.edu/artworks/86272/
Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Still Life with Bottle (recto) Bottle with Stipper (verso) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113112/
Gift of William N. Eisendrath, Jr.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The Ram, from Histoire naturelle https://www.artic.edu/artworks/128325/
Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund
November 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The Staircase with Trophies, plate 8 from Imaginary Prisons https://www.artic.edu/artworks/43903/
Clarence Buckingham Collection
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The Fall of Troy and the Escape of Aeneas https://www.artic.edu/artworks/221702/
The itinerant Italian Renaissance engraver Giorgio Ghisi excelled at historical, religious, and mythological scenes. This magnificent engraving boasts heightened details and sculptural modeling recalling an ancient bas-relief frieze. Mounted on powerful horses, the invading Greek force storms into the burning city on the left. On the right, Aeneas scales the walls to escape with his elderly father and young son while his mother, Venus, protects him from a hovering cloud. As described in Virgil’s poem the Aeneid, after the Trojan War Aeneas follows a winding, perilous course, similar to that of Odysseus in Homer’s the Odyssey, before eventually making his way to a new home, Rome. The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Battle of Amazons https://www.artic.edu/artworks/85866/
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM