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A Terra Foundation Resource

In 2015, with funding provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, more than 75 Chicago archival repositories were surveyed. Browse by repository or search across the nearly 900 records to discover the history of American Art in Chicago.

The Archives of American Art would like to acknowledge the work of Chicago-based art historian Dr. Wendy Greenhouse who completed the survey, and the valued participation of the contributing institutions and organizations.

Repository Locations

Surveyed Collection Descriptions

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  • 57th Street Art Fair (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: 57th Street Art Fair collection of visual materials and 57th Street Art Fair files of Adrian Alexander
    Inclusive Dates: 1947–2001, 1964–1982
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • 57th Street Art Fair (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: 57th Street Art Fair records and addenda
    Inclusive Dates: 1964–2006, 2005
    Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center

  • Adams, Walter Burt, 1903-1990

    Collection Title: Walter Burt Adams papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1926–1988
    Repository: Evanston History Center

  • Ade, George, 1866-1944

    Collection Title: George Ade papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1865–1971
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum

    Collection Title: Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum institutional records
    Inclusive Dates: 1912–2008
    Repository: Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum

  • Adler, Mortimer, 1902-2001

    Collection Title: Mortimer Adler papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1914–1995
    Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center

  • Albert, Fritz W. (Fritz Wilheim), 1865-1940

    Collection Title: Fritz W. Albert photograph collection
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1895–1935
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Albright, Earl W.

    Collection Title: Photographs of the Century of Progress
    Inclusive Dates: 1933–1934
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Albright, Ivan, 1897-1983

    Collection Title: Ivan Albright medical drawings made in Nantes, France
    Inclusive Dates: 1918–1919
    Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center

  • Albright, Ivan, 1897-1983

    Collection Title: Ivan Albright collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1888–1995 (bulk 1900–1980)
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Allen, Harold, 1912-1998

    Collection Title: Harold Allen Egyptomania collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1780–1998
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Allston, Washington, 1779-1843

    Collection Title: Washington Allston papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1816
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Altschuler, Franz, 1923-2009

    Collection Title: Franz Altschuler collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1910–2007
    Repository: Pritzker Military Museum & Library

  • American Center for Design

    Collection Title: American Center for Design records
    Inclusive Dates: 1927–1994
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • American Terra Cotta Corporation

    Collection Title: American Terra Cotta Company photograph collection
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1890–1915
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Ames, Polly Scribner, 1908-

    Collection Title: Polly Scribner Ames papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1938–1993
    Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center

  • Anania, Michael, 1939-

    Collection Title: Michael Anania papers
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1950s–2006
    Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center

  • Anchor Graphics (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: Anchor Graphics archive
    Inclusive Dates: 1990–2016
    Repository: Columbia College Chicago

  • Anderson, Donald M., 1915-1995

    Collection Title: Donald M. Anderson papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1942–1995
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

    Collection Title: Sherwood Anderson papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1872–1992
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Andruss,, William B. (William Benajah)

    Collection Title: William B. Andruss diary and commissions
    Inclusive Dates: 1855–1876
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • ARC Gallery (Chicago)

    Collection Title: ARC Gallery records
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Arché Club (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: Arché Club records
    Inclusive Dates: 1890–1990
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Armin, Emil, 1883-1971

    Collection Title: Emil Armin papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1929–1971
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Armstrong, May, 1917

    Collection Title: May Armstrong autograph book [manuscript]
    Inclusive Dates: 1875–1881
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Arnold, Charles Dudley, 1844-1927

    Collection Title: World's Columbian Exposition photographs by C.D. Arnold
    Inclusive Dates: 1891–1894
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Arnold, Charles Dudley, 1844-1927

    Collection Title: C. D. Arnold photographic collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1891–1893
    Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections and Preservation Division

  • Arnold, Charles Dudley, 1844-1927

    Collection Title: Views of the World's Columbian Exposition
    Inclusive Dates: 1893
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Arnold, Charles Dudley, 1844-1927

    Collection Title: C.D. Arnold photograph albums of World's Columbian Exposition construction
    Inclusive Dates: 1891–1892
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Arnold, Isaac Newton, 1815-1884

    Collection Title: Isaac N. Arnold papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1860–1885
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Arnold, Rus, 1909-1973

    Collection Title: Rus Arnold papers
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1920, circa 1938–1987
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Arquin, Florence, 1900-1974

    Collection Title: Florence Arquin collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1956–1974
    Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives

  • Art Alliance of America

    Collection Title: Art Alliance of America scrapbook
    Inclusive Dates: 1918–1919
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Women's Board, art rental and sales gallery records
    Inclusive Dates: 1954–1986
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Junior Museum and Gallery of Art Interpretation records
    Inclusive Dates: 1924–1956
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Museum Services records
    Inclusive Dates: 1919–1983
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Art Institute of Chicago photographs
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1885–2010
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Public Affairs Department records
    Inclusive Dates: 1939–1998
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Registrar's records from the Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives
    Inclusive Dates: 1894–1983
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Anonymous scrapbook from the Art Institute of Chicago's Institutional Archives
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1895
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Secretary's records from the Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives
    Inclusive Dates: 1894–1943
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Department of 20th-Century Painting and Sculpture records from the Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives
    Inclusive Dates: 1939–1976
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago

    Collection Title: Secretary's scrapbooks from the Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives
    Inclusive Dates: 1890–1937
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Antiquarian Society

    Collection Title: Antiquarian Society records
    Inclusive Dates: 1896–1984
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: Artists' papers from the Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries
    Inclusive Dates: 1636–1970 (bulk 1800s)
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: World's Columbian Exposition collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1890–1896
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: Work[s] Progress Administration Federal Art Project photograph collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1930s
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: Century of Progress Collection
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1920s–1980
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: Pamphlet files
    Inclusive Dates: early 20th century–ongoing
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: Scrapbook of art and artists of Chicago [microform]
    Inclusive Dates: 1875–1993
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: American Mural Painting scrapbooks
    Inclusive Dates: 1934–1944
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: Historic Architecture and Landscape Image collection
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1865–1973
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: Architects' and Designers' papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1767–2003 (bulk 1889–1920)
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Ryerson Library

    Collection Title: Illinois Artists, Art Institute questionnaires and Illinois Academy of Fine Arts biographical data
    Inclusive Dates: 1918, 1929
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Art Institute of Chicago. School

    Collection Title: School of the Art Institute of Chicago records
    Inclusive Dates: 1879–2010
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Art Institute of Chicago. Video Data Bank

    Collection Title: On Art and Artists video collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1974–present
    Repository: Video Data Bank

  • Art Resources in Teaching

    Collection Title: Art Resources in Teaching records
    Inclusive Dates: 1906–1994 (bulk 1945–1991)
    Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives

  • Artemisia Gallery

    Collection Title: Artemisia Gallery records
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Artists Book Works (Organization)

    Collection Title: Artists Book Works records
    Inclusive Dates: undetermined
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Arts Club of Chicago

    Collection Title: Arts Club records
    Inclusive Dates: 1892–2004
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Atlan Ceramic Club (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: Chicago Area Topical Collection on Art—Atlan Ceramic Art Club
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Atwater, Adeline, 1887-1975

    Collection Title: Adeline Lobdell Atwater papers
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1932–1956
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Auditorium Theater Council (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: Auditorium Theatre Council (Chicago, Ill.) records
    Inclusive Dates: 1960–1982
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Auditorium Theater Council (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: Auditorium Theatre Council records
    Inclusive Dates: 1955–1970
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Audubon, John James, 1785-1851

    Collection Title: John James Audubon [papers]
    Inclusive Dates: 1829–1844
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • B. F. Ferguson Monument Fund

    Collection Title: B. F. Ferguson Monument Fund records
    Inclusive Dates: 1906–2000
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • B. Leader & Sons (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: B. Leader & Sons photograph collection and B. Leader & Sons items
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1920–1997, circa 1957–1990
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Baltramaitis, Kazys, 1906-

    Collection Title: Baltramaitis collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1960s–1981
    Repository: Lithuanian Research and Studies Center

  • Bannon, Laura, 1895-1963

    Collection Title: Laura Bannon collection of illustrations
    Inclusive Dates: 1939–1958
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967

    Collection Title: Claude A. Barnett papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1918–1967 (bulk 1928–1963)
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Barr, Frank, 1906-1955

    Collection Title: James Prestini collection of Frank Barr designs
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1940–1969
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Barron, Susan, 1947-

    Collection Title: Susan Barron papers
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Bartlett, Frederic Clay, 1873-1953

    Collection Title: Frederic Clay Bartlett Personal Papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1900-1950
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Beale, Joseph Boggs, 1841-1926

    Collection Title: J.B. Beale collection of visual materials
    Inclusive Dates: 1870s
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Beall, Lester, 1903-1969

    Collection Title: Lester Beall design collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1934–1962
    Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives

  • Beard, Frank, 1842-1905

    Collection Title: Frank Beard collection of visual materials
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1880–1890
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Beck, Bruce, 1916-2009

    Collection Title: Bruce Beck design collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1953–1984
    Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives

  • Beck, Edward Scott, 1878-1972

    Collection Title: Edward S. and Clare F. Beck autograph collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1878–1882
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Beman, Solon Spencer, 1853-1914

    Collection Title: Solon Spencer Beman papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1904–1959
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Benedict, Enella, 1858-1942

    Collection Title: Enella Benedict papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1920–1942
    Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives

  • Benjamin Galleries (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: Benjamin Galleries
    Inclusive Dates: 1939–1979?
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Benjamin Galleries (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: Benjamin Galleries records
    Inclusive Dates: 1941–1979
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954

    Collection Title: Edward H. Bennett collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1901–1954
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Benton, William, 1900-1973

    Collection Title: William Benton papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1839–1973
    Repository: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center

  • Berdich, Vera, 1915-2003

    Collection Title: Vera Berdich personal papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1935–2000
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Berg, Peter L., 1885-

    Collection Title: Peter L. Berg Silver Designs collection
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1909–circa 1915
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Bernstein, Barbara

    Collection Title: New Deal Federal Art Project research collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1934–1982
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Bertsch & Cooper (Firm)

    Collection Title: Bertsch & Cooper image collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1904–1910
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Betts, Louis, 1873-1961

    Collection Title: Louis Betts collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1918–1994
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Beverly Art Center (Chicago, Ill.)

    Collection Title: Beverly Arts Center exhibition records
    Inclusive Dates: circa 2005–present
    Repository: Beverly Arts Center

  • Bevis, Mildred Belle

    Collection Title: Mildred B. Bevis notebook of designs for the Kalo Shop
    Inclusive Dates: circa 1910–1913
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries

  • Blades, Barbara

    Collection Title: Barbara Blades papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1976–2004
    Repository: Loyola University Chicago, Women and Leadership Archives

  • Blair, William McCormick, 1884-1982

    Collection Title: William McCormick Blair records
    Inclusive Dates: 1958–1966
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Blake, Hayward R.

    Collection Title: Hayward Blake design collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1960s–2000s and undated
    Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives

  • Blake, Margaret

    Collection Title: Margaret Day Blake scrapbook
    Inclusive Dates: 1952–1964
    Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Institutional Archives

  • Blanchard, Rufus, 1821-1904

    Collection Title: Rufus Blanchard collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1880–1940
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Blum, Betty

    Collection Title: Betty J. Blum Blatchford Family research papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1862–1983
    Repository: Newberry Library

  • Botsford, Bennet B., Mrs., 1851-

    Collection Title: Bennet Harvey collection's scrapbook on Chicago artist Grace Gassette's work in World War I Paris
    Inclusive Dates: 1914–1919
    Repository: Lake Forest College Library

  • Brackett, Edward Augustus, 1818-1908

    Collection Title: Edward Augustus Brackett collection
    Inclusive Dates: 1839
    Repository: Chicago History Museum

  • Breckenridge, James D., 1926-1982

    Collection Title: James D. Breckenridge papers
    Inclusive Dates: 1924-1983
    Repository: Northwestern University

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