Walter Ellison. Train Station, 1935. Charles M. Kurtz Charitable Trust and Barbara Neff Smith and Solomon Byron Smith funds; through prior gifts of Florence Jane Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, and the estate of Celia Schmidt.
Some of the most informative art work created in the United States is that of the first and second great migration. The not so subtle change in the demographic in the country brought about a dramatic shift in the culture. Music, Dance and Poetry made it’s way north along Mississippi transforming everything along the way. At the same time immigrants from all of the globe began to fuse their stories in what is sometimes called the great melting pot.
They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950 Until June 2, 2013 at the Art Institute of Chicago