Article: Antiquarians display gifts

In the last 110 years, the Antiquarian Society has given more than 600 important decorative works to the Art Institute of Chicago - from textiles, Oriental art, silverwork and needlework to woodcarvings, furniture, sculpture and paintings.

More than 100 of those objects are on display in "A Decade of Decorative Arts: Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago Gifts to the Department of American Arts and European Decorative Arts and Sculpture." The exhibition will continue through Jan. 4 in the Ward Gallery.

Sure, the exhibition has a long title, but then the named beneficent society has a longer history than the Art Institute itself. Founded in 1877 as the Decorative Arts ...

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