Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago

Henry Ives Cobb, born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1859, was descended from old New England families. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from Harvard University as an engineer, also completing a special architecture course with William L. ...

Current Exhibition - The Art Institute 1879-2009: An Archival Timeline May 20 - July 27 This exhibit features a wide variety of archival documents, photographs, books, artifacts, and ephemera culled from the Institutional Archives of the museum...

This selection of framed photographs belongs to a series of 80 different images that comprise Some Thames, which depicts the surface of the Thames River in central London...

RECOMMENDED Flying just under the radar, the exhibition at the Art Institute’s Ryerson Library, “Multiples, Parts and Pieces,” brings to attention

This year Chicago is celebrating the centennial of the Plan of Chicago, written by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett. As the repository for the papers of both architects, the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries have been involved in many of the programs developed for the centennial...

Multiples, Parts and Pieces March 18 - May 18, 2009 Starting in the late twentieth century artists began to see the book (and serial publications) as a viable avenue to explore the artistic concept in a format that was more readily available and easily circulated to a broader audience than the...