Drawing and Print Collection

Dates: 1756-2016, undated
Size: 15.25 linear feet in 11 boxes, 14 folios, 55 Oversize Folders, includes 34 drawings and 715 prints
Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605
Collection Number: spe-art00097
Provenance: The materials were acquired by purchase, from various donors and transferred from various Chicago Public Library locations.
Language: Materials are primarily in English, with a few items in Estonian, French and Japanese.
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Processed by: Michelle McCoy, 2018. Updated and reformatted for ArchivesSpace by Michelle McCoy, 2022.

Abstract

The Drawing and Print Collection brings together a selection of 2-dimensional artworks that are part of Chicago Public Library’s permanent art collection. The collection contains works on paper that use drawing media such as charcoal, ink, pastel, pencil or watercolor or one of the printmaking processes such as collography, drypoint, etching, lithography, screen printing or woodcut.

Scope and Contents

The Drawing and Print Collection brings together a selection of 2-dimensional artworks that have been gifted to the Library from multiple donors, acquired directly by Chicago Public Library as part of the permanent art collection or transferred as historic resources to Special Collections from the Library’s Visual and Performing Art department. The artworks span multiple styles and dates from as early as 1756 to as recent as 2016. The artists are equally diverse with some being world renown, some locally known and some with little to no biographical information.

Arrangement

The artworks in this collection are arranged into three series based on the mediums of creation: Series 1: Drawings, circa 1910-1987, undated; Series 2: Prints, 1756-2003, undated and Series 3: Prints, Chicago Subjects, 1899-2016, undated.

Subject Headings

  • Artists’ preparatory studies
  • Brod, F. (Fritzi), 1900-1952
  • Burroughs, Margaret Taylor, 1917-2010
  • Drawings
  • Etching
  • Federal Art Project
  • Gropper, William, 1897-1977
  • Hunt, Richard, 1935-
  • Intaglio printing
  • Jevne & Almini
  • Lithographs
  • Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
  • Prints, Japanese
  • Relief printing
  • Screen prints
  • Séguy, E. A. (Emile-Allain), 1877-1951
  • Serigraphy
  • Stencil work
  • Szász, Endre, 1926-2003
  • Tamayo, Rufino, 1899-1991
  • Varin, Raoul, 1865-1943
  • Women’s Graphics Collective
  • Wood-engraving--19th century

Related Collections

  • Albers, Josef. Formulation, Articulation, 2 portfolio volumes with 127 screen prints, New York, H.N. Abrams, 1972 ND 588.A35 A45
  • Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color, set of 80 screen prints, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1963 ND 1489.A4 1963
  • Chester Commodore Papers
  • Chicago Artist Files
  • Chicago Printmakers Collaborative: Resistance Materials
  • Chicago Printers Guild Records
  • John T. McCutcheon Cartoons

Collection Inventory

Series 1: Drawings, circa 1910-1987, undated

Scope and Contents

Series 1 contains works on paper created by such drawing media as charcoal, ink, pastel, pencil or watercolor. The artworks are organized by creator within the series. Brief descriptions of the type of artistic subject matter have been added in square brackets for works that do not have a title.

Arrangement

Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by artist’s last name.

Box 2 Art 78.127 Carrière, Eugène. Untitled [female nude], charcoal, undated
Art 96.2   Chan, Andy Hoi-Csiu. [Signs of the Chinese Zodiac], 13 watercolor drawings on rice paper (on display, 7th floor Harold Washington Library Center), 1996
Box 2 Art 78.123 Davies, Arthur. Untitled [landscape], pastel, circa 1910
Box 2 Art 78.121 Demuth, Charles. Walking Man, pencil, undated
Oversize Folder 31 Art 71.115 Gross, Chaim. Untitled [woman on her back balancing two women on feet], watercolor, undated
Oversize Folder 33 Art 72.1500 Havens, L. [South Chicago], Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project, watercolor, circa 1940
     
Oversize Folder 27 Art 2005.4 Hunt, Richard. Untitled [studies for a sculpture], pencil, 1964
Art 90.4.2   Jackman, Reva. Mother and Child, Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project, drawing, framed, 1938
Box 1 Art 2018.133.1-3 Kenar, Jerzy. Together, [studies of sculpture?], .1 is ink and crayon, 2018.133.2-2018.133.3 are color photocopies, 1987
Art 78.120   Kent, Rockwell. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness [study for a medallion], graphite, framed, circa 1938
Oversize Folder 20 Art 85.4 Litvinowski, P. Untitled, crayon (originally Accession no: 78.117), undated
Art 2016.5   Michalov, Anne. Winter Rain, Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project, watercolor, framed, 1940
Box 2 Art 77.134 Prosper, Merimee. Emperor Charles V Picks from the Fallen Brush of Rubens, watercolor on paper, undated
Art 85.10   Rivera, Diego. Untitled [sketch of a figure], graphite on colored paper, framed, undated
Art 78.126   Rivera, Diego. Woman of Tehuantepec, graphite, framed, circa 1930
Oversize Folder 21 Art 85.12 Shopen, Kenneth. Homage to Books, watercolor, 1950
Box 2 Art 78.128 Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre. Untitled [Two heads], pen and ink, before 1923
Box 2 Art 78.130 Vorobyov, Valentin. Untitled [abstraction], watercolor, 1975
Art 73.101   Weiss, Edward. Carl Sandburg, drawing (on display, 7th floor Harold Washington Library Center), 1973
Oversize Folder 10 Art 75.1199 Young, Ellsworth. Coal Yard, Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project, gouache, 1941

Series 2: Prints, 1756-2003, undated

Scope and Contents

Series 2 contains works created with one of the printmaking processes including collography, drypoint, etching, lithography, screen printing or woodcut. Brief descriptions of the type of artistic subject matter have been added in square brackets for works that do not have a title. In some instances, no information is available to verify the medium and our best determination is inserted into square brackets. The reproduction prints created by Margaret Burroughs use the dates of her inscription and not the date the print was originally created.

Arrangement

Series 2 is arranged alphabetically by artist’s last name or by “artist unknown” when that information is not available.

Folio 1 Prints 71.102.1-10 Albers, Josef. Homage to a Square, set of 10 screen prints, colors mixed by Sewell Silliman, format and typography by Norman Ives, silk screen printing by R.H. Norton Company, letterpress by the Carl Purington Rollins Printing-Office of the Yale University Press, 139/250, 1962
Box 11   Alphabet Book Chicago V, contains prints by (order of appearance) John Weber, Tom Greensfelder, Nicole Hollander, Eliza Schulte, Mike Kecseg, Ann Rapp, Tom Sweets, Richard Weaver, Robert Ash, Trisha Hammer, Frank Morreale, Kate Pagni, Tim Botts, Laura Brown, Valerie Weilmuenster, Zarren Sirajullah, Tina Yao, Nancy Vachon, Nancie Ash, Robin Zurawski, Cathie Ruggie Saunders, Heike Penski Adams, Dan Cohrane, Deborah Howe, Bob Williams, Barbara Lazarus Metz, Aaron Miller, Jeanine Coupe Ryding, Audry Niffenegger, 2/2, 1991
Box 9 Print 78.135 Antes, Horst. Untitled [head and legs], etching and aquatint, 78/105, 1969
Oversize Folder 22 Print 93.4.2 Artist unknown. Construction, [screen print], 245/260, 1973
Oversize Folder 2 Print 77.132 Artist unknown. Montgomery Ward, [color lithograph?] with color separations, 245/260, undated
Box 2 Print 94.5.1 Artist unknown, [Japanese, Daruma, donation record attributes to Golio?], woodblock print, circa 1900
Box 2 Print 94.5.2 Artist unknown, [Japanese, kabuki warrior, donation record attributes to Toyokuni III)?], woodblock print, undated
Box 2 Print 94.5.3 Artist unknown, [Japanese, kabuki warrior, donation record attributes to Utagawa Kuniyoshi?], woodblock print, undated
Box 2 Print 94.5.4 Artist unknown, [Japanese, donation record attributes to Baigoro Kunisada II (Toyokuni IV), possibly from Tale of Genji?] woodblock print, undated
Box 2 Print 94.5.5 Artist unknown, [Japanese, donation record attributes to Shven, possibly from Tale of Genji?] woodblock print, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.105 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Buddha scene], Dalai Lama of Lhasa, woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.107 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Buddha scene], woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.106 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Buddha scene], Monastery of Shara Soom, China, woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.109 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Buddha scene, Shadje Monie Buddha of Tibet], Monastery of Shara Soom, China, woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.110 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Buddha scene], Monastery of Shara Soom, China, woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.108 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Buddha scene], Dalai Lama and Tishi Lama of Tibet, Monastery of Shara Soom, China, woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.104 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Female Buddha], Monastery of Shara Soom, China, woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.113 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Female buddha or poosa], Monastery of Shara Soom, China, woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.111 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Prayer], Monastery of Shara Soom, China, woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 19 Print 79.112 Artist unknown, [Tibetan, Lanca script], woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 36 Print 78.114 [Avichay? signature illegible]. Charles River, etching and aquatint, 1965
Box 2 Print 78.118 Beckmann, Max. Bildnis Frau [Portrait of a Woman], lithograph, 1921
Oversize Folder 6 Print 78.104 Belkin, Arnold. In the Beginning, lithograph, AP, 1969
Box 8 Prints 2018.129.0-20 Benedictus, Edouard. Nouvelles Variations: soixante-quinze motifs decoratifs en vingt planches par Benedictus, Paris: Editions Albert Levy, pochoir prints (missing plates 18 and 20), circa 1929
Print 78.107   Bergner, V. Rothschild, color lithograph, undated
Folio 14 Prints 2018.131.1-10 Bicknell, A.H. Original Etchings, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (10 prints), 1887
Box 2 Print 78.122 Bonnard, Pierre. Femme assisse dans sa baignoire [Woman Seated in Her Bath], color lithograph, 1942
Oversize Folder 9 Print 78.111 Bott, Francis. Untitled, lithograph, 20/65, undated
Oversize Folder 1 Prints 78.144.1-15 Brod, Fritzi. In Thought, Fritzi Brod Memorial Exhibition, set of 15 color lithographs, circa 1950
Oversize Folder 32   Brod, Fritzi. In Thought, Fritzi Brod Memorial Exhibition, 2 exhibition signs, 1977
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.4 Burroughs, Margaret. African Ancestor Spirit, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.3 Burroughs, Margaret. African Ancestors, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.11 Burroughs, Margaret. The Birthday Party, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.17 Burroughs, Margaret. DuSable-Founder of Chicago, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Print 2018.117.7 Burroughs, Margaret. The Extended Family, reproduction of woodcut, signed 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.19 Burroughs, Margaret. Faces a la Picasso, reproduction of lithograph, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Print 2018.117.1 Burroughs, Margaret. Faces of My People, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.10 Burroughs, Margaret. Faces of Our [sic] People, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Print 2018.117.6 Burroughs, Margaret. FreedomNow! Right Now! reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.6 Burroughs, Margaret. FreedomNow! Right Now! reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Print 2018.117.8 Burroughs, Margaret. Harriet Tubman, reproduction of lithograph, signed, 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.20 Burroughs, Margaret. Harriet Tubman - Our Moses, reproduction of lithograph, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.13 Burroughs, Margaret. Harriet Tubman, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.15 Burroughs, Margaret. Head of a Woman, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.12 Burroughs, Margaret. Little Girl, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Print 2018.117.5 Burroughs, Margaret. Madonna and Child, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.8 Burroughs, Margaret. Mahalia Jackson, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.7 Burroughs, Margaret. Mexican Girl, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Print 2018.117.2 Burroughs, Margaret. Mother, Africa, reproduction of 1991 woodcut, signed, 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.18 Burroughs, Margaret. Mother and Child, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.1 Burroughs, Margaret. The Pharoah - Our Ancester, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Poster 2022.60.1 Burroughs, Margaret. poster of painting: The Birthday Party, signed (2 copies), 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Posters 2018.117.9-12 Burroughs, Margaret. posters (4) of paintings: Friends, Girl Child, Homage to Picasso, My People, signed, 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.9 Burroughs, Margaret. The Quartet, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Print 2018.117.3 Burroughs, Margaret. Read! Read! Read! reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.5 Burroughs, Margaret. Read! Read! Read! reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 15 Print 2018.117.4 Burroughs, Margaret. Reading Together, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2001
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.2 Burroughs, Margaret. Reading Together, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.14 Burroughs, Margaret. Three Faces of Life, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.57.16 Burroughs, Margaret. Woman Wearing a Cowl, reproduction of woodcut, signed, 2004
Box 2 Print 2005.7 Chagall, Marc. La Femme Moineau [The Woman Elizaveta Vorobey], etching, 1948
Box 1 Print 78.142 Charlot, Jean. Hula Ki’i, screen print, 11/15, 1974
Oversize Folder 24 Print 93.4.5 Csato, [Georges]. Untitled [Geometric abstraction], [lithograph?], 89/260, circa 1970s
Folio 6 Prints 79.128.1-12 Dali, Salvador. 50 Years of Surrealism, set of 12 prints, drypoint with stencil coloring, 102/195, 1974
Oversize Folder 44 Prints 79.125.1-4 Dali, Salvador. Visions of Chicago, 2 sets of 4 prints (one printed on Japon paper: Art Institute, Buckingham Fountain, Museum of Science and Industry, Water Tower, drypoint with stencil coloring, 65/100, HC, 1975
Folio 7 Prints 78.151.1-10 Dali, Salvador. Imaginations et objets du futur, 2 sets of 10 prints each, drypoint, lithograph, screen print and collage, 78/151, 1975-1976
Folio 8 Prints 78.152.1.1-10 Dali, Salvador. Imaginations et objets du futur, 2 sets of 10 prints each, drypoint, lithograph, screen print and collage, I193/250, 1975-1976
Box 1 Print 82.40.6 Danforth, S. Chester. Byrd’s Southpole Flagship, etching, circa 1933
Box 1 Print 82.40.9 Danforth, S. Chester. The Capitol, color etching, circa 1930s
Oversize Folder 23 Print 93.4.3 Debutler, Jacqueline. Untitled [abstraction], [collograph?], 157/260
Oversize Folder 18 Print 2018.138 Deutsch, Boris. Untitled [Lithuanian peasants], color lithograph, AP, 1970
Oversize Folder 53 Print 18.103 Egger-Lienz, Albin. ,,1915” color lithograph, 1915
Oversize Folder 17 Print 2018.144 Farmer, Tom. Clamdiggers, lithograph, AP, circa 1948
Oversize Folder 17 Prints 2018.140.1-.3 Farmer, Tom. Crucifixion, lithographs, AP, 1/7, 2/7 (3 copies), circa 1976
Oversize Folder 17 Print 2018.143 Farmer, Tom. Reflected Territory, lithograph, AP, circa 1940s
Oversize Folder 17 Print 2018.141 Farmer, Tom. Shark Fishermen, lithograph, 1/12, circa 1949
Oversize Folder 17 Print 2018.142 Farmer, Tom. Untitled [Shark Fishermen], lithograph, circa 1949
Oversize Folder 18 Print 2018.137 [Farmer, Tom?] Untitled [studies], lithograph, undated
Oversize Folder 18 Print 90.4.6 Fitzsimmon, T. Michelmas Market at Prague, color lithograph, undated
Oversize Folder 18 Print 2018.136 Geritz, Franz. Hamlin Garland, lithograph, 1933
Box 1 Print 78.125.27 Gleichmann, Otto. The Prisoner, lithograph, circa 1920s
Print 78.106   Golden, [Libby]. [Qumran], silkscreen, edition of 12, 1969
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.58 Goss, Bernard. Frederick Douglass, reproduction of woodcut, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.1 Gropper, William. Untitled [close-up of two men], color lithograph, 1/200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.2 Gropper, William. Untitled [debater], color lithograph, 84/200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.3 Gropper, William. Untitled [debate], color lithograph, 135/200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.6 Gropper, William. Untitled [enthusiastic speaker], color lithograph, 189/200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79 Gropper, William. Untitled [in the lobby], color lithograph, 121/200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.4 Gropper, William. Untitled [lawyer presents to a jury] color lithograph, 38/200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.5 Gropper, William. Untitled [seven men and a green desk], color lithograph, 120/200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.7 Gropper, William. Untitled [three men debating], color lithograph, 31 /200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.8 Gropper, William. Untitled [three men with a yellow background], lithograph, 22/200, undated
Oversize Folder 47 Print 84.79.0 Gropper, William. Untitled [who belongs to the delegation], color lithograph, 21/200, undated
Oversize Folder 25 Prints 93.4.6; 93.4.7 [Guange? signature illegible]. Untitled, [geometric abstraction], 2 planographic prints 239/260 and 117/260, undated
Box 9 Print 71.107 Hansen, Robert. Christ Ascended, lithograph, 1964
Box 9 Print 71.108 Hansen, Robert. Man-Men 142, lithograph, 1964
Folio 2 Print 71.105.1-52 Hansen, Robert. Satan’s Saint, book/portfolio of 52 lithographs, Los Angeles, Tamarind Lithography Institute, 1965
Oversize Folder 12 Print 78.113 Hayter, Stanley William. Atelier 17, April 14-May 30, 1964, Exhibition Poster, Editions Alecto Ltd., London, color lithograph, 1964
Folio 3 Prints 71.104.1-8 Hunt, Richard. [Details, study for sculpture], set of 8 lithographs, Tamarind Institute, edition of 20, 1965
Oversize Folder 43 Print 78.109 Jenkins, Paul. Abstraction No.42, [color lithograph], circa 1970s
Print 78.110   Jenkins, Paul. Abstraction No. 43, [color lithograph], circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 42 Print 85.13 Jenkins, Paul. Untitled [male athletes standing on boxes], nos. 1, 2, 3, color lithograph, 50/100, 1972
Oversize Folder 53 Print 18.102 Jettmar, Rudolf. Befreiung des Prometheus, etching and drypoint, 1910
Oversize Folder 53 Print 18.101 Jettmar, Rudolf. Prometheus bringt den menschen…, etching and drypoint, 1916
Oversize Folder 53 Print 85.6 Jettmar, Rudolf. [Church with rose window and people], print, undated
Print 90.4.3   Kahn, Max. Anne, Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project, color lithograph, 1938
Oversize Folder 45 Print 79.174.1-4 Katon, Martin Gilbert. Exotic Cats of the World, set of 4 screen prints, (African Lion, Siberian Tiger, South American Jaguar and Chinese Snow Leopard), Chicago Serigraph Workshop, AP46/65, 1977
Box 10 Prints 2002.2.1-13 Koloc, Bonnie. Bestiary, Beasts of the Farm, Lansing, IA: Ruskin Press, set of 13 woodcuts with accompanying audio cassette, 1996
Box 1 Print 78.131 Landau, Jacob. Love, What? lithograph, 114/250, 1967
Folio 4 Prints 71.103.1-10 Landau, Jacob. Charades, set of 10 lithographs, Tamarind Institute, edition of 20, 1965
Oversize Folder 43 Print 84.81 Lalande, Jacques. Untitled [Bluebird], lithograph, 77/100, 1970s
Box 9 Print 78.137 Legrand, Edy. Gens du Cirque, lithograph, 108/150, undated
Folio 11 Prints 2019.69.1-50 Les laques du Coromandel: 50 planches publiée sous la direction et avec une introduction de E.-A. Séguy, Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, circa 1923
Print 2020.2   Lindsay, Vachel. Babylon, Babylon, Babylon the Great, broadside poem and illustration, framed, 1923
Box 9 Print 78.136 Loisel, J. F. Saint Francais d’Assise, lithograph, undated
Oversize Folder 26 Print 93.4.8 Magnay. Untitled, [lithograph], 191/260, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 18 Print 2018.134 Majors, [first name unknown], Japanese Woman, 2-color lithograph, undated
Oversize Folder 18 Print 2018.135 Majors, [first name unknown], Lilies, lithograph, undated
Print 78.108   Manessier, Alfred. Untitled, lithograph, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 14 Print 78.119 Masson, Andre. Saison en enfer, color lithograph, 24/47, undated
Folio 13 Prints 71.112.1-24 Masson, Andre. Voyage a’Venise, set of 24 color lithographs, 25/50, Paris: Éd. de la Galerie Louise Leiris, 1952
Box 7 Prints 2019.67.1-40 Matet, M.M. Tapis Modernes, edited by M.H. Ernst, exemplaire no. 593, Paris: Edition Librairie, circa 1929
Oversize Folder 4 Print 78.116 Matta, Roberto. Untitled [family portrait], color lithograph, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 55 Print 2022.59 Mendez, Leopoldo. Paul Leroy Robeson, reproduction of woodcut, undated
Print 93.4.4   Menguy, Frédéric. Les Fruits, color lithograph, 2/260, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 18 Print 2018.139 Milan, Ellen. Premonition, color collograph, 12/20, 1962
Oversize Folder 41 Print 2005.5 Miró, Joan. La traversee du mirroir, color lithograph, 48/90, 1963
Box 1 Print 78.134 Montigny, Jules. King Albert’s Hospital, etching, 2/75, circa 1917
Box 2 Print 2005.6 Moore, Henry. Untitled [two reclining figures], lithograph, 79/100, 1963
Oversize Folder 13 Print 2022.56 Morrison, Keith. The Eagle Listens, color lithograph, Landfall Press, Chicago, 41/100, 1978
Box 2 Print 86.6.2 Moser, Barry. Nelson Algren, Pennyroyal Press, wood engraving, 2/100, 2001
Oversize Folder 8 Print 71.109 Mullican, Lee. Untitled, color lithograph, Tamarind Institute, circa 1970
Oversize Folder 8 Print 71.110 Mullican, Lee. Untitled, color lithograph, Tamarind Institute, circa 1970
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.2 Nelson, William. [Barbershop, Lincoln Avenue], color lithograph, 299/360, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.1 Nelson, William. [Birdhouse], color lithograph, 107/508, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.34 Nelson, William. [Birds on a wire], color lithograph, 166/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.3 Nelson, William. [Candy store], color lithograph, 188/300, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.4 Nelson, William. [Chinatown], color lithograph, 145/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.6 Nelson, William. [Farm in winter], color lithograph, 264/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.7 Nelson, William. [Farmstead], color lithograph, 422/500, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.8 Nelson, William. [Horse and buggy in driveway], color lithograph, 344/500, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.9 Nelson, William. [Horse and buggy, winter], color lithograph, 296/425, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.10 Nelson, William. [Horse by a barbwire fence], color lithograph, 223/375, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.12 Nelson, William. [Lighthouse], color lithograph, 289/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.13 Nelson, William. [Mailbox], color lithograph, 301/500, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.14 Nelson, William. [Man walking], color lithograph, 199/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.15 Nelson, William. [Native American man on a rock], color lithograph, 260/275, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.16 Nelson, William. [Milk can and wheel], color lithograph, 327/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.17 Nelson, William. [Old rusty truck], color lithograph, 151/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.18 Nelson, William. [Olympics - American hockey team], color lithograph, 291/400, 1976
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.19 Nelson, William. [Olympics - Bobsled team], color lithograph, 123/350, 1976
Oversize Folder 49 Print 78.145.20 Nelson, William. [Olympics - Nadia Comenici], color lithograph, 205/400, 1976
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.21 Nelson, William. [Olympics - Dorothy Hamill], color lithograph, 359/400, 1976
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.22 Nelson, William. [Olympics - Bruce Jenner], color lithograph, 367/400, 1976
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.23 Nelson, William. [Olympics - Franz Klammer], color lithograph, 112/350, 1976
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.24 Nelson, William. [Olympics - Rose Mitternauer], color lithograph, 116/350, 1976
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.25 Nelson, William. [Olympics - Carl Schnabel], color lithograph, 109/400, 1976
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.26 Nelson, William. [Olympics - U.S. high jumper], color lithograph, 83/350, 1976
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.27 Nelson, William. [Olympics - Sheila Young], color lithograph, 273/400, 1976
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.28 Nelson, William. [Raggedy Ann], color lithograph, 137/425, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.29 Nelson, William. [Seaside harbor], color lithograph, 112/500, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.30 Nelson, William. [Sailboats with orange and blue sails], color lithograph, 340/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.31 Nelson, William. [Windmill], color lithograph, 298/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.32 Nelson, William. [Woman hanging clothes], color lithograph, 292/350, circa 1970s
Oversize Folder 50 Print 78.145.33 Nelson, William. [Woman in a buggy], color lithograph, 80/425, circa 1970s
Folio 9 Prints 79.126.1-10 Nierman, Leonardo. L’intuition de l’univers, set of 10 lithographs printed on 2 different papers, Greenwich, CT : Lublin Graphics, 1974
Folio 10 Prints 84.85.1-7 Nierman, Leonardo. Sound of Color, set of 7 color lithographs, (Bach, Brahams, Debussy, Mahler, Mozart, Ravel, Stravinsky), Greenwich, CT: Lublin Graphics, 51/250, 1976
Box 9 Print 78.140 Oudot, Roland. Nude, etching, undated
Box 6 Prints 2018.128.0-20 Päts, Voldemar. Eesti rahvariieia ornament: Rogunud ja väljaannud [Estonian], Tallinnas: Riigitrükikoda, pochoir prints, 1926
Box 1 Print 78.124 Pechstein, Max. Falau, lithograph, 1914
Box 2 Print 78.138 Picabia, Francis. Untitled [head of a woman], screen print, undated
Oversize Folder 7 Print 75.983 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. Veduta intema della Chiesa della Madonna, [Views of Rome], etching, circa 1768
Oversize Folder 7 Print 75.984 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. Veduta, interna del Panteon [Views of Rome], etching, circa 1768
Oversize Folder 7 Print 75.985 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. L’autre vue’de la Facade du Pronaos, etching, circa 1778
Oversize Folder 7 Print 75.986 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Castello dell’Aqua Paolo sul Monte Aureo, etching, circa 1756
Oversize Folder 7 Print 75.987 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. Piramide di C. Cestio, [Views of Rome], etching, circa 1756
Oversize Folder 7 Print 75.988 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della fonte e della Spelonche di Egeria fuor della porta Capena, etching, circa 1766
Oversize Folder 30 Print 2020.28 Press of the Woolly Whale / Earl H. Emmons. La chapeau immortal, letter press broadside, 1928
Box 1 Print 78.129 Probst, Peter. Die Insel der Unsterblickheit, etching on silk, 18/60, 1967
Box 1 Print 78.133 Rouault, Georges. Self-portrait, aquatint and sugar lift, undated
Oversize Folder 13 Print 78.115 Rubin, Rueven. Rabbi Holding Torah, [gicleé print], 42/200, circa 1970
Oversize Folder 34 78.105 Sedgley, Peter. Looking Glass, screen print, 1966
Box 4 Prints 2018.125.0-20 Seguy, E.A. Bouquets et Frondaisons [Flowers and Foliage]: 60 motifs en coluleur, Paris: Ch. Massin & Co., pochoir prints (includes title page, index and advertisement), circa 1925
Box 3 Prints 2018.123.0-20 Seguy, E. A. Insects: vongt planches en phototypie coloriees au patron donnant quatre-vingts insects et seize compositions decoratives, Paris: Editions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoust, pochoir prints (includes title page, index and advertisement), circa 1928
Box 3 Prints 2018.122.0-20 Seguy, E. A. Papillons: vingt planches en phototypie coloriees au patron donnant 81 papillons et 16 compositions decoratives, Paris: Tolmer, pochoir prints (includes title page, index and advertisement), circa 1925
Box 5 Prints 2018.124.0-20 Seguy, E.A. Suggestions for Etoffes et Tapis [Stuffs and Carpets]: 60 motifs en coluleur, Paris: Ch. Massin & Co., pochoir prints (includes title page, index and advertisement), circa 1924
Box 4 Prints 2018.126.0-20 Seguy, E.A. Samarkande: 20 compositions en coluleur dans la style Oriental, Paris: Ch. Massin & Co., pochoir prints (includes title page, index and advertisement), circa 1920
Print 79.102   Stretti, Viktor. Tomas Garrique Masaryk, lithograph, 1929
Oversize Folder 35 Print 79.103 Švabinský, Max. T.G. Masaryk, President, Republic of Czechoslovakia, woodcut, 1919
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.5 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [blonde figure], color intaglio, 28/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.10 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [blonde woman], color intaglio, 82/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.6 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [blonde figure with a blue shirt], color intaglio, 71/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.7 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [blonde figure with a green shirt], color intaglio, 63/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.2 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [boy with a red hat], color intaglio, 57/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.1 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [dove in knight’s armor], color intaglio, 47/150, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [Don Quixote], color intaglio, 71/150, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.11 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [explosion-like design], color intaglio, 96/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.9 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [figure with a blue hat], color intaglio, 89/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.8 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [figure with a blue hat and shirt], color intaglio, 35/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.4 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [frog], color intaglio, 43/100, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.3 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [jester], color intaglio, 68/175, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.13 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [woman with owl headdress], color intaglio, 100/150, undated
Oversize Folder 46 Print 84.80.12 Szasz, Endre. Untitled [woman with an animal headdress], color intaglio, 17/75, undated
Oversize Folder 5 Print 71.117 Tamayo, Rufino. Man at the Door, color lithograph, Tamarind Institute, 1964
Oversize Folder 3 Print 71.101 Tamayo, Rufino. Mask, color lithograph, Tamarind Institute, 1964
Oversize Folder 40 Print 71.118 Tamayo, Rufino. Personaje en una cueva, color lithograph, 1964
Oversize Folder 39 Print 71.116 Tamayo, Rufino. Variations on a Man, No. 3, color lithograph, 1964
Oversize Folder 38 Print 71.111 Ting, Walasse. Sunset Star, color lithograph, 1964
Box 1 Print 78.132 Toledo, Francisco. Leon, etching, 75/250, 1970
Print 71.106   Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de. Divan Japonais, color lithograph, framed, 1892-1893
Box 6 Prints 2018.127.0-20 Verneuil, M.P. Kaleidoscope: Ornaments, Abstracts: quatre-vingt-sept motifs en vingt planches composes par Ad. et M. P.-Verneuil, Paris: Editions Albert Levy, pochoir prints (includes title page, index and advertisement), circa 1928
Folio 5 Prints 2018.116.1-34 Wall, Bernhardt. Smaller World War Etchings, volume of 34 etchings, autograph letters, original chalk drawing and 2 cancelled plates bound by Monastery Hill Bindery, 6/16 bound volumes (etchings include Ferdinand Foch; Marshall Joffe, 10/20; Blue Devil, 141/151; Marshall Foch, 102/121; King Albert, 50/61; Field General Haig, 90/100; Tommy Akins, 20/30; General Allenby, 50/60; Cardinal Mercier, 30/40; General Diaz, 40/50; Admiral Beatty, 27/37; President Wilson, 40/50; General Pershing, 23/33; 7th Reg. Review, 50/60; Doughboy, 25/35; U-boat, Central Park, 18/28; Admiral Sims, 36/46 ; The Gob, 15/25; Admiral Mayo, 27/37; Teufelhund, 25/35; Col. Whittlesey, 28/38; The D.S.C., 28/38; In Bryant Park, July 1918, 20/30; Gen. F.T. Hines, 26/36; The Leviathan, 40/50, General Pershing, 60/70; U.S.S. Grant, 24/35; Armistice Card, 810/820; Clemenceau, 33/43; Lloyd George, 30/40; His Buddy, 40/50; Watch on the Rhine, 38/48; Untitled; Bernhardt Wall, imprint card and cancelled plates: Admiral Beatty, The Gob), 1947
Box 2 Print 75.1195 Weiss, Edward. Alexander Calder, offset print, 1974
Folio 12 Prints 2019.68.1-9 Women of Japan: Nine Original Color Woodcuts Handprinted in Japan, Volume 2, Later Masters, introduction by Alfred Werner, New York: H. Felix Kraus Books International [Plate 1 missing], 1950

Series 3: Prints, Chicago Subjects, 1899-2016, undated

Scope and Contents

Series 3 contains fine art and commercial prints in the collection where the City of Chicago is the subject matter. This series includes 21 limited edition aquatint etchings created by French engraver, Raoul Varin, during the 1920s and 1930s. These prints were published by A. Ackermann & Son, a British publisher, who had offices in Paris, Chicago and New York. The featured views referenced 19th century perspectives, based on extant classic works such as those in Jevne & Almini’s 1866 volume, Chicago Illustrated. (Special Collections folio: NA735.C4J4) Some of the Varin prints in the collection are faded. Brief descriptions of the type of artistic subject matter have been added in square brackets for works that do not have a title.

Arrangement

Series 3 is arranged alphabetically by artist, press or title.

Oversize Folder 28 Print 2019.71 57th Street Art Fair, June 4-5, screen print poster, art by George McVicker and Rainey Bennett, circa 1966
Oversize Folder 28 Print 2019.72 57th Street Art Fair, June 8-9, screen print poster, art by George McVicker and Elizabeth Oppenheim, circa 1968
Oversize Folder 28 Print 2019.73 57th Street Art Fair, June 3-4, 25th anniversary, screen print poster, art by [?] Leach, circa 1972
Oversize Folder 28 Print 2019.74 57th Street Art Fair, June 7-8, screen print poster, art by [?] Carfoli, circa 1973
Oversize Folder 43 Print 84.84 Annis, Jim. Reflections of Yesteryear, [streetcar at Lincoln and Western Avenues], reproduction, 1978
Box 1 Print 85.17 Danforth, S. Chester. Avenue of Traffic, etching, 23/250, circa 1930s
Box 1 Print 80.40.2 Danforth, S. Chester. Chicago Board of Trade, color etching, circa 1930s
Oversize Folder 30 Prints 2020.26.1; 2020.26.2 Double Trip Press, Excerpt from the poem “Chicago,” by Carl Sandburg, letterpress broadside created for the Poetry Foundation, edition of 500 (2 copies), 2016
Oversize Folder 30 Print 2020.27 Double Trip Press, Excerpt from the poem “Borderbus,” by Juan Felipe Herrera, letterpress broadside created for the Poetry Foundation, edition of 500, signed by the poet, 2015
Oversize Folder 30 Print 1987.47.6 Inland Printer. Inland Printer for January Now Ready, broadside, color lithograph, 1899
Print 82.40.7   Kellner, Charles H., Tribune Tower, Chicago, etching reproduction, 1932
Box 1 Print 2018.18 Lader, Deborah Maris. Chicago Shakespeare, etching and aquatint, 20/30, 2016
Box 2 Print 78.102 Neiman, Leroy. Carl Sandburg, Schubert Theater, Chicago, Nov. 18, 1956, offset print, undated
Oversize Folder 48 Print 78.145.5 Nelson, William. [Elevated train], color lithograph, 270/350, 337/350 (2 copies), 1970s
Print 82.12   Nelson, William. In the Spirit of State Street, hand-colored intaglio print, framed, 1981
Box 2 Print 82.40.5 Overall, Charles. Lake and Clark Streets, 1865, lithograph, undated
Print 82.40.4   Overall, Charles. Michigan Ave. from Randolph St. Station in 1865, lithograph, undated
Print 82.40.3   Overall, Charles. Sherman House in 1865, lithograph, undated
Oversize Folder 54 Print 2020.20 Varin, Raoul. A Bird’s Eye View ofLake Shore Drive Chicago 1889, aquatint and etching, circa 1930
Oversize Folder 51 Print 2019.17 Varin, Raoul. Chicago in 1779, showing the Cabin of Jean Baptiste Point du Saible, aquatint and etching, 20/125, 1930
Oversize Folder 54 Print 2020.16 Varin, Raoul. Chicago in 1833, confluence of Chicago River north and south branches, aquatint and etching, circa 1930
Oversize Folder 37 Print 2012.5.4 Varin, Raoul. Chicago in 1857, View from the Court House looking South West, 89/125, aquatint and etching, 1930
Oversize Folder 51 Print 2019.7 Varin, Raoul. Chicago in 1857, View from the Court House Looking South West, 100/125, aquatint and etching, 1930
Oversize Folder 54 Print 2020.17 Varin, Raoul. Chicago in 1865, confluence of Chicago River north and south branches, aquatint and etching, circa 1930
Oversize Folder 51 Print 2019.6 Varin, Raoul. Chicago Water Works, 1868, 21/125, aquatint and etching, 1926
Oversize Folder 54 Print 2020.18 Varin, Raoul. Chicago in 1871, confluence of Chicago River north and south branches, aquatint and etching, circa 1930
Oversize Folder 54 Print 2020.19 Varin, Raoul. Chicago in 1928, confluence of Chicago River north and south branches, aquatint and etching, circa 1930
Oversize Folder 16 Print 2012.5.3 Varin, Raoul. Corner of Lake and LaSalle Streets, 36/100, hand-colored aquatint and etching, 1927
Oversize Folder 51 Print 2019.14 Varin, Raoul. Corner of State and Washington Streets Chicago, in the year 1865, aquatint and etching, 66/100, 1928
Oversize Folder 51 Print 2019.4 Varin, Raoul. First House Built in Chicago, as It Appeared in 1827, Residence of John Kinzie, 1804-1828, 24/125, aquatint and etching, 1927
Oversize Folder 52 Print 2019.16 Varin, Raoul. LaSalle Street from Court House Square Chicago in the year 1889, 47/100, aquatint and etching, 1927
Oversize Folder 51 Print 2019.15 Varin, Raoul. Michigan Avenue and Jackson Street, in the Year 1889, 22/125, aquatint and etching, 1930
Oversize Folder 52 Print 2019.12 Varin, Raoul. Michigan Avenue at the Foot of Michigan Street Chicago, with a View of the Illinois Central Station, in the Year 1864, 24/100, aquatint and etching, 1926
Oversize Folder 54 Print 2020.21 Varin, Raoul. Michigan Avenue Chicago 1861, aquatint and etching, circa 1930
Oversize Folder 52 Print 2019.11 Varin, Raoul. Michigan Avenue from Park Row, in the Year 1865, 38/100, aquatint and etching, 1926
Oversize Folder 52 Print 2019.8 Varin, Raoul. View of Michigan Avenue from Randolph St., in the Year 1865, 42/100, aquatint and etching, 1926
Oversize Folder 51 Print 2019.3 Varin, Raoul. Michigan Avenue Looking North, 1863, with a View of Michigan Terrace, 18/125, aquatint and etching, 1929
Oversize Folder 16 Print 2012.5.1 Varin, Raoul. Northwest Corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, 21/100, hand-colored aquatint and etching, 1927
Oversize Folder 51 Print 2019.10 Varin, Raoul. Northwest Corner of LaSalle and Randolph Streets Chicago, Showing Court House Square in the Year 1864, 87/100, aquatint and etching, 1928
Oversize Folder 52 Print 2019.2 Varin, Raoul. Old Fort Dearborn, 28/125, aquatint and etching, 1927
Oversize Folder 54 Print 2020.22 Varin, Raoul. Rush Street Bridge Chicago 1861, aquatint and etching, circa 1930
Oversize Folder 52 Print 2019.13 Varin, Raoul. Sherman House, Clark and Randolph Streets, Erected in 1860-61, aquatint and etching, 19/100, 1926
Oversize Folder 16 Print 2012.5.2 Varin, Raoul. Southeast Corner of LaSalle and Washington Streets, 1864, 43/100, aquatint and etching, 1920s
Oversize Folder 37 Print 2012.5.5 Varin, Raoul. View of Wells and Clark Street Bridges 1861, from the Foot of River St., 95/125, aquatint and etching, 1929
Oversize Folder 52 Print 2019.5 Varin, Raoul. View of Wells and Clark Street Bridges 1861, from the Foot of River St., 25/125, aquatint and etching, 1929
Oversize Folder 52 Print 2019.9 Varin, Raoul. Washington Street between State and Dearborn, Chicago, Showing Crosby's Opera House, in the Year 1864, 39/100, aquatint and etching, 1928
Oversize Folder 11 Print 78.103 Weiss, Edward. Portrait of Carl Sandburg, offset print of a drawing, 300/300, 1977
Box 1 Print 2012.2 White, Charles Henry. Grant Park, etching, 1908
Oversize Folder 29 Print 2019.70 Women’s Graphics Collective, Women Are Not Chicks, screen print poster, 1971
Oversize Folder 29 Print 2020.25 Women’s Graphics Collective, Women Working, screen print poster, circa 1982
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