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The Art Institute of Chicago 49th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings – Historic Reproduction

The Art Institute of Chicago 49th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings — historic image
The Art Institute of Chicago 49th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings. Historic image from the Star Spangled Images collection.

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The Art Institute of Chicago 49th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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The Art Institute of Chicago 49th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings

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The record identifies this as the 49th annual exhibition of American paintings held by the Art Institute of Chicago, a series that the museum ran to show work by living American artists. Those shows were a major stage for American painting. They gave local and national artists a public venue and helped shape what the country's art audiences saw as contemporary American art. Numbering the exhibitions tells us the series had already run for decades by this point, so the piece sits within a long institutional record of the nation's changing styles and subjects.

Original scan2,331 × 3,335 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-214637

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