The antithesis of the rural English landscape--street life in modern cities such as New York, Chicago, Moscow, and Paris--is the subject of a small photography show at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago.(Current and coming)(Brief article)

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The antithesis of the rural English landscape--street life in modern cities such as New York, Chicago, Moscow, and Paris--is the subject of a small photography show at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Intended to serve as a thematic complement to the traveling exhibition Seeing the City: Sloan's New York, on view there through September, this assemblage of works from the Smart Museum's collection also sheds light on the variety of technical, formal, and historical ...

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