Potter Palmer Collection Goes on View
at Chicago Art Institute including
Monet, Renoir, Degas, Corot -- click here
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| In the early 1900s Bertha Honore Palmer was a widow in her 50s with an apartment in Paris when Rodin made this bust of her. In 1891 -- with a new home on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive -- she and her husband Potter had visited Paris to acquire paintings that since the 1920s have been at the Chicago Art Institute. The Palmers paid $1,250 each for their Monets -- including The River (above). Bertha's favorite paintings were Renoir's Jugglers at the Circus Fernando and Corot's Interrupted Reader. Click on Corot's pensive woman to visit Paris of the early 20th century via vintage postcards. | |||||||||||||
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| Chicago Daily News July 11, 1922 Potter Palmer Collection Goes on View at Chicago Art Institute including Monet, Renoir, Degas, Corot -- click here |
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