Lakeshore modernists: for its final exhibition, the Terra Museum revisited the early days of Chicago's modest art scene, when stylistic diversity and unruly spirits flourished

Art in America, Nov, 2004 by Sue Taylor

(4.) Ibid., p. 29.

(5.) Ibid., p. 34.

(6.) Harris, "The Chicago Setting," p. 4.

(7.) Fernand Leger, "Chicago Seen Through the Eyes of a Visiting French Cubist," trans. Thornton Wilder, Chicago Evening Post, Mar. 15, 1932.

(8.) Daniel Schulman, "White City and Black Metropolis: African American Painters in Chicago, 1893-1945," in Chicago Modern, p. 39.

(9.) Ibid., p. 43.

(10.) C.J. Bulliet quoted in Susan Weininger, "Completing the Soul of Chicago: Prom Urban Realism to Social Concern, 1915 1945," in Chicago Modern, p. 60.

(11.) Ivan Albright quoted in Weininger, "Fantasy in Chicago Painting: Real Crazy, Real Personal, and Real Real," in Chicago Modern, p. 75.

(12.) Weininger, "Fantasy in Chicago Painting," p. 71.

(13.) Bulliet quoted in ibid., p. 73.

(14.) Bulliet quoted in Sue Ann Kendall, "C.J. Bulliet: Chicago's Lonely Champion of Modernism," Archives of American Art Journal, vol. 26, no. 2/3, 1986, p. 29.

(15.) Franz Schulze, "The More Things Change ...," New Art Examiner, May 1992, p. 23.

"Chicago Modern 1893-1945. Pursuit of the New" was on view at the Terra Museum of American Art [July 17-Oct. 31, 2004]; it did not travel. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Sue Taylor is an associate professor of art history at Portland State University, Oregon.