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Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (Judy Gerowitz Chicago) , 1939-, American artist, b. Chicago as Judy Cohen. A feminist and founder of the Women's Art Education collective, she works in a variety of media, including such historically female crafts as needlework and china painting. Her best-known work, The Dinner... Read more |
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David Madden
MADDEN, David 1955– PERSONAL Born July 25, 1955, in Chicago, IL. ... Read more |
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Elmhurst
Elmhurst city (1990 pop. 42,029), Du Page co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; settled 1843, inc. 1910. A residential city, it also has three industrial parks. Elmhurst College is there, as is a museum of lapidary art that displays numerous minerals and gemstones.... Read more |
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Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley , 1839-99, French impressionist landscape painter, b. Paris, of English parents. He studied under Corot , Gleyre, and Courbet and was (1873) a founding member of the Impressionist group. After 1871, Sisley lived modestly at Moret-sur-Loing and painted subtly shimmering small-town... Read more |
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Loyola University of Chicago
Loyola University of Chicago at Chicago; Jesuit; coeducational; est. 1870 as St. Ignatius College, present name adopted 1909. It has a liberal arts college and a graduate school, as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, social work, law, business administration, and education. The... Read more |
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Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero , 1933-, American sculptor, b. Shanghai. Di Suvero's major works are constructions of massize pieces of steel, huge weathered timbers, tires, chains, and rope. They are remarkable for their large scale, their composition from common materials, and the effect of motion they produce. Di... Read more |
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Marshall Field
Marshall Field 1834-1906, American merchant, b. Conway, Mass. In 1856, after five years' apprenticeship in a general store in Pittsfield, Mass., he went to Chicago and became a clerk for Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., a leading dry-goods house there, of which he became a junior partner in 1862. In... Read more |
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George David Birkhoff
Birkhoff, George David (b. Overisel, Michigan, 21 March 1884; d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 12 November 1944). mathematics. The son of a physician, Birkhoff studied at the Lewis Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago from 1896 to 1902. After a year at the University of... Read more |
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Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the classical Beaux-Arts style by the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan,... Read more |
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Hoch's Brilliance Gets Chance to Shine
"Hannah Hoch (1889-1978): Collages" Through June 26 The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago...History, if it mentions Hannah Hoch (1889-1978) at ... |
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Folk Art Offers Glimpse Into Latin Soul
...modern folk art was an insight...convinced the Museum of American...June 12 at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art...by professor David Bevington and...Berlin. "Hannah ... |
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Dadaist's View of Life Captured Within Montages of Shape, Size
...this avant-garde was Hannah Hoch, who is credited with advancing the art of photo-collage...appear in the exhibit "Hannah Hoch 1889-1978: Collages...University of Chicago's David and Alfred ... |