_May 22 – Dada, Surrealism, and Magical Realism in America
Objects denoted with an asterisk (*) are part of the Art Institute's collection and link directly to the Art Institute's My Collections page. My Collections is a free online feature that allows you to create, save, and share your own collection of select artworks at the Art Institute. To learn more about starting your own My Collections account please visit the About My Collections page.
* Charles Sheeler, The Baroness's Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, c. 1920
* Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, 1915-23
* Marcel Duchamp, Dust Breeding, 1920s (photograph by Man Ray)
* Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp, Ubu Roi, 1921
* Man Ray, Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp, 1937
* Man Ray, Untitled, (from Champs Delicieux, Paris), 1922
* Man Ray, Marie-Berthe Aurenche, Max Ernst, Lee Miller, Man Ray, c. 1930
* Lee Miller, Joseph Cornell, 1932/34
* Joseph Cornell, Mica Magritte, 1963
* Rene Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1938
* Rene Magritte, The Tune and Also the Words, 1964
* Joseph Cornell, Soap Bubble Set, 1948
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
* Jackson Pollock, Untitled, c.1938-41
Willem de Kooning, The Wave, 1942-44
* Robert Motherwell, Untitled, 1944
* Adolph Gottlieb, Pictograph-Symbol, 1942
* Matta, The Earth is a Man, 1942
* Ivan Albright, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1944-45
Max Ernst, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1945
* de Bry, after Pieter Breughel, the elder, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1596
* Kay Sage, In the Third Sleep, 1944
* Kay Sage, Blood Machine (recto), 1942
Remedios Varo, La creación de aves, 1957
Frida Kahlo, Abrazo amoroso, 1949
* Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930
Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939
* Charles Sheeler, The Artist Looks at Nature, 1943
* Ivan Albright, Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, 1929–30
* Gertrude Abercrombie, Self-Portrait of My Sister, 1941
* Gertrude Abercrombie, The Past and the Present, c. 1945
* Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930
Peter Blume, South of Scranton, 1931
* Peter Blume, The Rock, 1944–48
* Hughie Lee-Smith, Desert Forms, 1957
Jess, Mouse’s Tale, 1951-4
* Scott Burton, Bronze Chair, 1972
* Doris Salcedo, Colombian, Untitled (Armoire), 1992
* Jeff Wall, The Flooded Grave, 1998-2000
Additional Resources:
Automatism, Dada, Abstract Expressionism
Objects denoted with an asterisk (*) are part of the Art Institute's collection and link directly to the Art Institute's My Collections page. My Collections is a free online feature that allows you to create, save, and share your own collection of select artworks at the Art Institute. To learn more about starting your own My Collections account please visit the About My Collections page.
* Charles Sheeler, The Baroness's Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, c. 1920
* Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, 1915-23
* Marcel Duchamp, Dust Breeding, 1920s (photograph by Man Ray)
* Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp, Ubu Roi, 1921
* Man Ray, Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp, 1937
* Man Ray, Untitled, (from Champs Delicieux, Paris), 1922
* Man Ray, Marie-Berthe Aurenche, Max Ernst, Lee Miller, Man Ray, c. 1930
* Lee Miller, Joseph Cornell, 1932/34
* Joseph Cornell, Mica Magritte, 1963
* Rene Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1938
* Rene Magritte, The Tune and Also the Words, 1964
* Joseph Cornell, Soap Bubble Set, 1948
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
* Jackson Pollock, Untitled, c.1938-41
Willem de Kooning, The Wave, 1942-44
* Robert Motherwell, Untitled, 1944
* Adolph Gottlieb, Pictograph-Symbol, 1942
* Matta, The Earth is a Man, 1942
* Ivan Albright, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1944-45
Max Ernst, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1945
* de Bry, after Pieter Breughel, the elder, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1596
* Kay Sage, In the Third Sleep, 1944
* Kay Sage, Blood Machine (recto), 1942
Remedios Varo, La creación de aves, 1957
Frida Kahlo, Abrazo amoroso, 1949
* Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930
Grant Wood, Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939
* Charles Sheeler, The Artist Looks at Nature, 1943
* Ivan Albright, Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, 1929–30
* Gertrude Abercrombie, Self-Portrait of My Sister, 1941
* Gertrude Abercrombie, The Past and the Present, c. 1945
* Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930
Peter Blume, South of Scranton, 1931
* Peter Blume, The Rock, 1944–48
* Hughie Lee-Smith, Desert Forms, 1957
Jess, Mouse’s Tale, 1951-4
* Scott Burton, Bronze Chair, 1972
* Doris Salcedo, Colombian, Untitled (Armoire), 1992
* Jeff Wall, The Flooded Grave, 1998-2000
Additional Resources:
- Fred Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Concise Global History, 2nd ed. 2009.
- American Modernism at The Art Institute of Chicago, Barter, J., et al. 2009.
- Surrealist Art: The Bergman Collection, Ades, D., et al. 1997.
Automatism, Dada, Abstract Expressionism