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Goldabelle Finn, school of Art Institute donor
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Goldabelle McComb Finn attended the school of the Art Institute
as a young woman and studied drawing and painting. The experience
was to shape her life.
In 1991 when she was 97, Mrs. Finn gave the school $1 million.
The gift endowed in perpetuity the Goldabelle McComb Finn
Distinguished Chair in Art History and is used to fund research and
lectures as well as to buy premodern art.
"I used to paint, but I'm not very good," Mrs. Finn said in a
1994 Chicago Sun-Times interview ...
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Goldabelle Finn, school of Art Institute donor
Chicago Sun-Times
; Goldabelle McComb Finn attended the school of the Art Institute as a young woman and studied drawing and painting. The experience was to shape her life. In 1991 when she was 97, Mrs. Finn gave the school $1 million. The gift endowed in perpetuity the Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Chair in
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Goldabelle Finn; aided Art Institute
Chicago Sun-Times
; Goldabelle McComb Finn attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a young woman and studied drawing and painting. The experience was to shape her life. In 1991, when she was in her 90s, Mrs. Finn gave the school $1 million. The gift endowed in perpetuity the Goldabelle McComb Finn
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Art Institute's shops are unfair to no one
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Art Institute of Chicago doesn't owe anyone any apologies for expanding the museum's retail stores. And if anyone ought to be blushing about the attacks on the Art Institute for allegedly using taxpayer money to finance these shops, it is the slickly camouflaged outfit trying to move in on the
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Art Institute lion's roar sounded more like a meow
Chicago Sun-Times
; Where are Dorothy and Toto? The cowardly lion needs some help. Officials of the Art Institute of Chicago are still trying to laugh off the controversy about the painting of former Mayor Washington in female undies. But they look like a bunch of ninnies with their indecision and collective
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Art Institute offers plan to return Thai carving
Chicago Sun-Times
; The "Reclining Vishnu" carving may be going home to Thailand after a 20-year odyssey if a plan announced Monday by the Art Institute of Chicago works out. The Art Institute said that once it gets a work of equal merit from the Elizabeth Cheney Foundation here, expected within three weeks, it will
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Art Institute ponders swap of `stolen' piece
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Art Institute of Chicago may bow to demands of Thai citizens and return a 1,200-year-old stone carving of the Hindu god Vishnu to the ancient temple it once adorned. After accusations that the piece was removed illegally from Thailand during the Vietnam War, Art Institute officials said Monday
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Art Institute associates enjoy special programs.(Neighbor)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; In a society where days are clocked by the speed of a modem, it is difficult to stop and smell the roses, much less appreciate a great work of art. But the 277 members of the Barrington Community Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago will say it is worth the time and effort. From excursions to
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Art Institute says Nazis stole painting
Chicago Sun-Times
; A 19th century painting taken from a Jewish family by the Nazi regime in Germany, eventually ending up at the Art Institute of Chicago, may be returned to the family's relatives in England. Art Institute researchers have determined that Gustave Courbet's "Rock at Hautepierre," which the museum
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Art Institute gives back ancient lintel to Thailand
Chicago Sun-Times
; "The Reclining Visnu," a stone carving that Thailand says is a stolen national treasure, has been shipped back to its homeland, the Art Institute of Chicago said Tuesday. It will be delivered to Prince Diskul Subhadradis, the Thai archeologist who spotted it in the Art Institute more than a decade
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Art Institute suit stalled over allegation Defense: Lawyers betrayed confidence
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... attention from the risks the museum took with its funds. The Art Institute also instigated a criminal investigation and misled the news media, the countersuit alleges. The countersuit blames its broker for "errors" that early in 2001 "adversely affected the performance ...
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