BOOK:
This book is precious to me because it was how mother passed on to me her love for art when I was so very young. Grandmother had moved to Chicago to take classes at the Art Institute well before she ever met grandfather. She owned the book originally, and passed it on to mother when mother attended University of Chicago as a Fine Arts/English major. It's mine now but because the pages of this book are so old and brittle, the only way to salvage it to pass it on to someone else is to digitize it here for you. I've added transcriptions to let you search and swipe, and links to connect pictures and descriptions.
Title Page            Dedication            Page of Artists            First Page

CHAPTER:
Books have to be efficient of space, so descriptive text can meander far from what is being described. Because of the natural complexity of that type of organization, reading an art book can often be a brain teaser. For a more logically coherent organization, I've created Chapter Views that connect picture icons with the associated text. From there, you can link to the larger image. Unfortunately, I can find no logic that determined what Dupont Vicars put in what chapter. If you do, let me know!

ARTIST:
The book includes two pages of artist names and the page numbers where their work appears. I've expanded that concept to allow you to link to a painting in the book, or link to more about the artist. Once you're on an artist's page, you can page through artists just as you were paging through art.

BEST OF:
Since this website has grown from childhood memories and love, I've also included a ring of larger images of my favorite pictures.

GREAT ART LINKS:
If you're here as a researcher, then you probably have a personal set of links far better than these, but as someone returning to art after 40 years, these are the links I've been impressed enough by to want easy access to refind them.

I'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback on the design, or suggestions to make it better.

ARTICLES

ARCHIVAL ARTICLES:
Old art articles from the New York Times archive.

MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE:
Though mostly a gossip rag about the American art community at the turn of the century, it also contained etchings of paintings by our artists.

RECENT ART ARTICLES:
Recent news articles on art that catch my eye.

It was here that she studied, my mother explained,
Your grandmother, long before grandpa appeared,
At the Institute's classes of art and design,
Of the lion and the curve and the stroke of the pen.
She studied with Taft, mother said with some pride,
Though the master was gone long before I arrived in my turn,
Now it's yours, to take up the brush
For genetics will conquer in gentle ambush.

This wasn't at all what I wanted to hear
Because I was a scientist, cool-eyed and clear,
From the tips of my fingers that typed at the keys of computers
To firm-planted feet that walked near eyes of heaven
That gazed at Albireo's eyes blinking back blue and gold
    In a canvas of black, crying
"I am no artist and I know no verse."