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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Picasso at the Art Institute in 1940
A 1940 poster for a Picasso exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Organized by Alfred H. Barr, the exhibition was first shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from November 15, 1939 to January 7, 1940, before traveling to Chicago. You can download a free high-resolution version of this poster from the Library of Congress.
BTW, the Art Institute's website is an archivist's dream. It has listings of past collections going back to 1883, as well as PDF versions of collection and exhibition catalogs. The listing for the 1940 Picasso show can be found here, along with an excerpt from a 1940 press release touting the fact that when it came to attendance for the Picasso exhibition, Chicago wasn't the second city, as the Chicago show outdrew the one in New York: "...AIC attendance record exceeded that of MOMA..."
UPDATE: This Time Out Chicago article from earlier in the year has a complete history of Chicago-related Picasso shows and exhibitions.
Labels: 1940, 1940s, Art Institute, museums, Picasso, posters
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