Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5

Arts Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Arts Club
Abstract

Corporate records of the Arts Club of Chicago, an institution incorporated in 1916 and devoted to exhibiting and showcasing innovative artists and performers. Records include extensive exhibition files, files on the Club's music, lecture, film, and drama series, and administrative and financial files.

Dates: 1892-2004

Dill Pickle Club records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dill Pickle
Abstract

Miscellaneous material relating to the Dill Pickle Club of Chicago, Illinois (1916-ca.1933) and its leading founder, John (Jack) Jones. The bulk of the collection, most of which was removed from two scrapbooks, consists of handbills, fliers, programs and posters announcing and advertising numerous lectures, readings, parties, plays and other regular activities. Also includes art work, business and membership items, clippings, a few letters, photographs, poetry and Jack Jones memorabilia.

Dates: 1906-1941; Majority of material found within 1915-1935

Jacque B. Jacobsen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Jacobsen
Abstract

Photographs, slides, correspondence, family papers, and printed ephemera from Jacque B. Jacobsen, his wife Ann Dresmal, and other family members. Jacobsen was a Chicago painter and photographer active from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

Dates: approximately 1900s-1980s

Paula Gerard Renison Dance Sketches

 Collection
Identifier: Dance-MS-RenisonP
Abstract

Six pencil sketches of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancers drawn by artist Paula Gerard Renison during rehearsals and performances at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, 1938-1939.

Dates: 1938-1939

Platt R. Spencer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Spencer
Abstract Correspondence, photographs, copybooks, penmanship samples, cashbooks, newspaper clippings, poetry, essays, drawings, artifacts and miscellaneous personal items related to the life and career of Platt Rogers Spencer, penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship. The establishment of Spencerian schools of business was a highly successful endeavor in part because the entire family was involved in the business. In his later years, Spencer became involved in the...
Dates: 1827-1951; Majority of material found within 1850-1900

Filtered By

  • Subject: Art, American X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Art, American -- 20th century 2
Clubs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 2
Abolitionists -- Ohio 1
African American artists 1
∨ more
Art -- Exhibitions 1
Art -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Exhibitions 1
Art museums -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Art, American 1
Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Art, American -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century 1
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Artists -- Portraits -- Exhibitions 1
Arts -- Ohio 1
Ashtabula County (Ohio) -- History 1
Authors as artists 1
Ballet in art 1
Bohemianism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Business cards -- 1851-1900 1
Business education 1
Businesswomen 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Contracts 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Correspondence 1
Dancers in art 1
Drawing -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Sources 1
Invitations 1
Landscape painters -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Moving images 1
Ohio -- Pictorial works 1
Ohio -- Politics and government -- 19th century 1
Painting, Modern -- Exhibitions 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Penmanship -- Technique 1
Penmanship, American 1
Photographs 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1
Portrait painters -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Programs 1
Reports 1
Scrapbooks 1
Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions 1
Sketches 1
Sketches -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
Sound recordings 1
Temperance 1
Women artists 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives 1
Writing -- History 1
Writing instruments -- 1851-1900 1
+ ∧ less
 
Language
French 1
 
Names
Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004 2
Aldis, Arthur T. 1
Art Institute of Chicago 1
Arts Club of Chicago 1
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 1
∨ more
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Balkenhol, Stephan, 1957- 1
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1
Benette, Margaret 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010 1
Brancusi, Constantin, 1876-1957 1
Braque, Georges, 1882-1963 1
Cage, John 1
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
California Insurance Company 1
Carpenter, Rue Winterbotham, -1931 1
Cemin, Saint Clair 1
Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 1
Chapman, Elizabeth Fuller 1
Christensen, Grace 1
Constant, George 1
Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 1864-1953 1
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 1
Cottong, Kathy 1
Cunningham, Merce 1
Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989 1
Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 1
Dresmal, Ann, 1914-2004 1
Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 1
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 1
Duncanson, Robert S., 1821-1872 1
Dux, Claire, 1885-1967 1
Eisendrath, William N. 1
Ernst, Max, 1891-1976 1
Fairbank, Miriam 1
Federal Art Project 1
Freehling, Stanley 1
Gallagher and Ascher, Inc. 1
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
Gerard, Paula, 1907-1991 1
Gerstenberg, Alice 1
Graham, Martha 1
Haley, Alex 1
Hektoen, Eleanor 1
Jacobsen, Jacque B., 1907-1967 1
Jarvis, Isabel 1
Jones, John A. (John Archibald), 1876- 1
Julien Levy Gallery 1
Klee, Rogers, Loeb and Wolff (Firm) 1
Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980 1
Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949 1
Kusama, Yayoi 1
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 1
Lockett, Robbin 1
Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet (Firm) 1
Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955 1
Magnusson, M. J. 1
Mamet, David 1
Man Ray, 1890-1976 1
Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979 1
Matisse, Pierre, 1900-1989 1
McNear, Everett, 1904-1984 1
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 1
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 1
Moats, Mabel B. 1
Moore, Case, Lyman and Hubbard Insurance 1
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 1
Morisot, Berthe, 1841-1895 1
Morley, Malcolm, 1931-2018 1
Mussey, Ellen Spencer, 1850-1936 1
Mussey, Persis Ellen Spencer, 1850-1936 1
Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Delevan), 1833-1892 1
Muzzy family 1
Nef, John U. (John Ulric), 1899-1988 1
Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988 1
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988 1
Palmer, John, 1881-1964 1
Panaieff, Michel 1
Plensa, Jaume, 1955- 1
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956 1
Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953 1
Railway Express Agency 1
Reitman, Ben L. (Ben Lewis), 1879-1942 1
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 1
Roullier, Alice, 1883-1963 1
Scheidt, Patricia 1
Schumm Traffic Agency 1
Schweiker, Paul 1
Sedaris, David 1
Shaw, Rue Winterbotham 1
Sloan family 1
Sloan, Junius R., 1827-1900 1
Sloan, Percy H. (Percy Haydn), 1867-1950 1
Sloan, Sarah Spencer, 1832-1923 1
Spencer family 1
Spencer, H. C. (Henry Caleb) 1
Spencer, Harvey Alden, 1838- 1
+ ∧ less