Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942

Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)

William Turner Dannat (1853–1929) Study for "An Aragonese Smuggler" 1881

Pair of firedogs representing Venus and Mars, designed by Quentin-Claude Pitoin and modeled by Etienne-Maurice Falconnet

French, c. 1769

gilt bronze and iron supports

Art Institute of Chicago

Whoever is running the socials for the Art Institute, they aren't paying you enough.

[ID: An instagram post from the Art Institute of Chicago Museum; it shows a professional photograph of a tired-looking young man in a business suit, sitting in front of a holiday decoration in the form of giant Christmas lights. He is looking into the middle distance with headphones in, and seems unaware of the photographer. It is captioned "Christmas has come and gone, and we could all use a little quiet time to recuperate. New York street photographer Melanie Einzig finds a young man in a moment of exhaustion in this 1999 photograph, "Holiday Spirit, Avenue of the Americas."]

Renaissance era ship jewlery: pendants and a set of earrings (from the British Museum's digital collection and "Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, accessed via the Internet Archive)

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) "After the Hurricane, Bahamas" (1899) Watercolor and graphite on paper Realism Located in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

The old blind guitarist, 1903, Art Institute of Chicago - by Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), Spanish

Shura (修羅) by Yamaguchi Mio (山口美音), 2020

From the special exhibition "Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan" (Dec 16, 2023–Jun 3, 2024) at the Art Institute of Chicago

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Perfect), (collage of self-adhesive vinyl letters and frosted mylar, cut-and-tipped to gelatin silverprint), 1980 [Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. © Barbara Kruger]

Miniature English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1186)

For a slow Sunday here are some Fabergé nephrite jade snails from Russia:

Carl Fabergé, late 19th/early 20th century, carved nephrite jade, 4.8 x 8.1 x 3.2 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum

Fabergé Workshop, c. 1900, carved nephrite jade with diamond eyes, 5.5 x 12.3 x 4.1 cm, Cincinnati Art Museum

Fabergé Workshop, c. 1885-1905, carved nephrite jade with rose aventurine quartz shell and gold tentacles, 4.9 × 4.8 × 10.8 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago

Tarquin and Lucretia by Jacopo Robusti, called Il Tintoretto

Italian, 1578-1580

oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago

Domenico Fetti - Melancholia (c.1615)

Some prints&drawings from the Art Institute's collection, which I saw during a recent lecture at the museum and thought were fun to share. I particularly like the Picasso print, which manages to give "postage stamp" without me really understanding why.

[ID: Three images; the first, A Triple Portrait of Hermine, Emilia, and Helena by Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, is a realistic sketch showing three young women, two in profile facing a third in the center; they are wearing large floofy blouses and have beautiful braided and coiffed hair. The lower left, Guitar on a Table by Pablo Picasso, is a print containing several blocks of color and shapes, with ink over top to add texture; an oval in the center does resemble a table, with a blocky guitar lying on it, though that is only a small portion of the image. The third, Starving Spirits by Paul Klee, is a pastel sketch on linen showing several vaguely human-looking shapes drawn with thin angular lines, walking towards a small table with a pitcher and a plate on it; the only color is the background, which is a wild wash of blue with a red streak in it which appears to be leading the "spirits" to the table.]