Artists Associated with Chicago

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The Terra's collection contains works of art by several individuals who had close professional ties to Chicago, whether by maintaining a studio in the area, belonging to local artists' organizations, or sending work to local exhibitions such as the annual Artists of Chicago and Vicinity at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Fleeting Time, Thou Hast Left Me Old

Ivan Le Lorraine Albright

Date: 1945

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1996.80

Text Entries: Magazine Arts 43 (December 1950): 290. Ill. p. 290. Croydon, Michael. Ivan Albright. New York: Abbeville Press, 1978. Text p. 199; pl. 97, p. 207 [oil painting: text p. 45; pl. 23, p. 72 (color); detail p. 73 (color)]. Grayson, Gael, ed. Graven Image: The Prints of Ivan Albright. (exh. cat., Lake Forest College). Lake Forest, Illinois: Lake Forest College, 1978. Pl. 11. American Printmakers, 1860–1950. Chicago, Illinois: R. S. Johnson Fine Art, 1987. Ill. no. 89. Teller, Susan Pirpiris. "The Prints of Ivan Albright." Print Review 10 (1979): 21–35. Fig. 10, pp. 28–31 (this print but not this impression). Cartwright, Derrick R. and Paul J. Karlstrom. American Moderns, 1900–1950. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2000. Text p. 60; pl. 1, p. 28 (black & white). [specific reference to Terra print] Cartwright, Derrick R. and Paul J. Karlstrom. L'Amérique et les modernes, 1900–1950. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2000. Text p. 60; pl. 1, p. 28 (black & white). [specific reference to Terra print] Kennedy, Elizabeth and Sophie Lévy. Faces of America: Portraits of the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, 1770–1940. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2004. Text pp. 19, 30 (checklist); fig. 6, p. 19 (color). [specific reference to Terra print] Kennedy, Elizabeth and Sophie Lévy. Visages de l'Amérique: le portrait dans la collection de la Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1770–1940. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2004. Text pp. 19, 30 (checklist); fig. 6, p. 19 (color). [specific reference to Terra print] Lévy, Sophie, et al. Twarze Ameryki: Portrety z kolekcji Terra Foundation for American Art, 1770–1940/Faces of America: Portraits from the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art, 1770–1940. (exh. cat. International Cultural Center). Cracow, Poland: International Cultural Center, 2006. Text pp. 24–26; ill., Fig. 5, p. 26 (color). [specific refernce to Terra print]

Grand Canal America

Gerald K. Geerlings

Date: 1933

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1995.14

Text Entries: Czestochowski, Joseph S. Gerald K. Geerlings. (exh. cat., Cedar Rapids Art Association). Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Cedar Rapids Art Association, 1984. Text pp. 14, 17, 20, 71; ill. p. 17 (black & white), no. 31, p. 58 (black & white). Gerald Geerlings: A Retrospective Exhibition of Prints, 1926–1988. (exh. cat., Associated Museum Artists). New York: Associated Museum Artists, 1989. No. 28. Graphic Excursions: American Prints in Black and White, 1900–1950. (exh. cat., American Federation of Arts). Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc. in association with The American Federation of Arts, 1991. Ill. no. 42.

Randolph Street

Charles Turzak

Date: c. 1936

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1996.45

Text Entries: Visions of a Nation: Exploring Identity through American Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois (organizer). Venue: Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, August 10, 1996–January 12, 1997. On Process: The American Print, Technique Examined, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois (organizer). Venue: Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, January 13–March 2, 2001.Terra Collection-in-Residence, Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 15, 2022–September 30, 2026.

On the Death of My Father

Shelly Terman Canton

Date: 1968

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Gift of Mr. Irving D. Canton

Object number: C1990.1

Text Entries: Shelly Canton 1930/1987 [sic]: Drawings and Prints. (exh. cat., Fairweather Hardin Gallery). Chicago, Illinois: Fairweather Hardin Gallery, 1987. [This impression no. 8/25 illustrated on page accompanying the conclusion of the catalogue's biography of the artist]

Mother and Child

Shelly Terman Canton

Date: 1964

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Gift of Mrs. Joyce Turner Hilkevitch in memory of Jonathan B. Turner

Object number: C1991.7

Text Entries: Shelly Terman Canton grew up in Lakeview, Illinois, daughter of a Chicago businessman and a concert pianist. At the age of eighteen she left Iowa State University to begin a career as a printmaker and draughtsman in New York, where she greatly admired the socially critical work of painter, graphic artist and photographer Ben Shahn. Canton's own art was directly informed by her awareness of hardship and injustice; the prominently gnarled hands, jagged linearity and somber mood of Mother and Child are particularly reminiscent of twentieth-century German artist Kathe Kollwitz's stark, black and white images of mothers. Canton's poetry likewise expresses her conception of the artist's task as, at least partly, an empathetic one: My arms reach out like tentacles Feeling every pulse, experiencing every pain Some child's cry wakes me and I can't sleep I hear the whole world whispering in my ear.

Bleecker Street Fire Hydrant

Kyra Markham

Date: 1942

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1995.43

Text Entries: Witkin, Lee D. Kyra Markham, American Fantasist (1891–1967). (exh. cat., The Witkin Gallery, Inc.). New York: The Witkin Gallery, Inc., 1981. Ill. p. 7 (black & white). Master Prints of Five Centuries, The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection. (exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts). Detroit, Michigan: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1990. No. 73, p. 94.

Night Club

Kyra Markham

Date: 1935

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1996.74

Text Entries: Witkin, Lee D. Kyra Markham, American Fantasist (1891–1967). (exh. cat., The Witkin Gallery Inc.). New York: The Witkin Gallery Inc., 1981. Text p. 4; ill. p. 5 (black & white).