Art: Sedate & Sweet

Two hundred ninety-six paintings and statues by such famed artists as Gifford Beal. James Chapin, Guy Pene du Bois, William J. Glackens, Eugene Higgins, Leon Kroll, Jonas Lie, Eugene Speicher, John Sloan were on view when the great Chicago Art Institute opened its 47th annual show last week. Many of the artists were there in person as were most of Chicago's socialites and connoisseurs, of whom the most important by far was a dumpy, indomitable lady swathed in pearls, orchids and caracul coat. Wife of the unassuming Honorary President of the Institute,...

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