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The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900 at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, February 11 – June 13, 2010

The Darker Side of Light reveals the private worlds of late nineteenth-century Europe through prints and other works meant for quiet contemplation. The exhibition presents over one hundred prints, drawings, illustrated books, and small sculptures by artists such as Félix Bracquemond, James Ensor, Max Klinger, Käthe Kollwitz, James McNeill Whistler, Charles Meryon, and Anders Zorn, among others. The Darker Side of Light evokes shadowed interiors and private introspections to tell a far less familiar story of late nineteenth-century art. (read more)

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Max Klinger, Abduction, 1881

Albert Besnard, Morphine Addicts, 1887

Eugène Carrière, Sleep, 1897

Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with a Dead Child, 1903

Félix Bracquemond, The Moles, 1854

Odilon Redon, This Is the Devil from Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1888