Jean Crawford Adams, View from Auditorium, c. 1945

Until August 3rd 2008

Chicago has a thriving arts scene, but painting has often played second fiddle to music, dance and theatre. This thoughtful exhibition sets out to redress the balance, offering a century's worth of Chicago-based painters and work that ranges from figurative to abstract. Look out for Ed Paschke's eerie portrait of Leopold and Loeb, the famous Chicagoan murderers, and the artful 19th-century cartoons of Theodore L. Wust. Images of the city play a huge role in Richard Chance's forays into realism in the late 20th century, as well as in Jean Crawford Adams's abstract view of the skyline.