{"id":37684,"date":"2025-12-17T00:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/art-institute-of-chicagos-2025-acquisitions-include-a-painting-by-kay-walkingstick-and-a-17th-century-south-asian-textile\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:16:39","slug":"art-institute-of-chicagos-2025-acquisitions-include-a-painting-by-kay-walkingstick-and-a-17th-century-south-asian-textile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/art-institute-of-chicagos-2025-acquisitions-include-a-painting-by-kay-walkingstick-and-a-17th-century-south-asian-textile\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Institute of Chicago\u2019s 2025 Acquisitions Include a Painting by Kay WalkingStick and a 17th-Century South Asian\u00a0Textile"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe Art Institute of Chicago announced the top lots among its more than 1,000 acquisitions in 2025, with special notice going to key paintings and other holdings now in the collections of departments including prints and drawings, photography and media, textiles, and architecture and design.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe paintings include Kay WalkingStick\u2019s The Silence of Glacier<\/em> (2013), a two-panel work that overlays a Northern Chayenne beadwork pattern over top a landscape scene from Glacier National Park in Montana. \u201cBy layering the beadwork pattern over the landscape,\u201d the museum\u2019s press release reads, \u201cKay WalkingStick reclaims the Rocky Mountains as Native land and uplifts Indigenous sources of American abstraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOther newly acquired paintings include Christian Schad\u2019s Portrait of Composer Josef Matthias Hauer <\/em>(1927), depicting an Austrian composer who developed a 12-tone musical composition in the 1920s, and Frans Francken II\u2019s Esther Before Ahasuerus (1622), <\/em>the first Flemish early modern painting to be acquired by the Art Institute in nearly 15 years.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe museum describes another highlight among the new holdings as \u201cone of the most significant Indian textiles to come to the market in decades\u201d: A Nayaka Nobleman with Courtiers and Courtesans<\/em>, a hanging 17th-century textile made with the South Asian technique of kalamkari, involving hand-painting and dyed cotton.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther notable new acquisitions include an untitled photograph from Francesca Woodman\u2019s \u201cCaryatid\u201d series (1980), in which the late photographer performed the role of an ancient Greco-Roman columnar figure for a self-portrait imbued with painterly qualities by way of long exposure times, and the Ovejo Armchair<\/em> (1972) by Colombian designer Jaime Guti\u00e9rrez Lega. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tTamil Nadu, India, A Nayaka Nobleman with Courtiers and Courtesans<\/i>, 1640-1650. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Art Institute of Chicago announced the top lots among its more than 1,000 acquisitions in 2025, with special notice going to key paintings and other holdings now in the collections of departments including prints and drawings, photography and media, textiles, and architecture and design. The paintings include Kay WalkingStick\u2019s The Silence of Glacier (2013), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:12:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}