A guide to the paintings of the Bridges Collection furnishes important insights into the lives and careers of the artists who worked prior to the turn of the last century, as well as biographies of Modernist era Chicago painters and spectacular reproductions of artworks by Alice Kellogg Tyler, Frank Peyraud, Alfred Juergens, and other notables. Original.

Product Description: Chicago’s fine arts have long languished in the shadow of the city’s architectural riches, but their time has finally come, most prominently as the focus of the final major exhibition at Chicago’s Terra Museum of American Art. The attendant catalog of the Terra Museum’s fall 2004 exhibition, "Chicago Modern, 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New", is the first-ever survey by a major art museum of early American modernist works created by Chicago artists...read more