M. Christine Schwartz Collection

Exhibitions

Works from the M. Christine Schwartz Collection have been included in the following exhibitions:

Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era

Dixon Gallery and Gardens, July 13, 2025-September 28, 2025; Chrysler Museum of Art, October 17, 2025–January 11, 2026. Organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art, the exhibition centers on the career of Susan Watkins (1875–1913) to examine how women at the turn of the twentieth century overcame barriers and achieved success within the professional art world. A companion publication is co-published by the Chrysler Museum of Art and Yale University Press.

MINERVA CHAPMAN
Interior

PAULINE DOHN (RUDOLPH)
Pear Time

 

Arte Diseño Xicágo II : From the World’s Fair to the Present Day

National Museum of Mexican Art, April 12–August 11, 2024. The exhibition showcases works of art by Mexican and Chicago artists who participated in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and examines their similar narratives of identity during the Gilded Age. A related publication by the museum is forthcoming.

 

OLIVER DENNETT GROVER 

Thy Will Be Done

Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art 

Toledo Museum of Art, June 12–September 5, 2021; Speed Art Museum, October 7, 2021–January 2, 2022; Minneapolis Institute of Art, February 19–May 15, 2022. Organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, this is the first museum exhibition to broadly examine the relationship between American artists and the supernatural. It features approximately 160 interdisciplinary, multicultural, and multimedia objects made from the early nineteenth century to the present. An illustrated 320-page catalogue edited by curator Robert Cozzolino accompanies the exhibition.

MACENA BARTON
Untitled (Flying Saucers with Snakes)

Centennial of the Lyme Association Art Gallery

Florence Griswold Museum, November 7, 2020–May 23, 2021. Commemorating the centennial of the permanent gallery building of the Lyme Art Association (LAA) of Old Lyme, Connecticut, the exhibition partially recreates the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, which was also the twentieth annual show for the LAA and featured the work of Lyme Art Colony painters, past and present.

LAWTON PARKER
La Paresse

Art of Illinois

Illinois Governor’s Mansion, Springfield, Illinois, July 14-December 31, 2018. The inaugural exhibition of the Illinois Governor’s Mansion following a major architectural restoration, Art of Illinois examines the creative achievement of fine and applied arts practitioners working in Illinois from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in more than 100 examples of painting, sculpture, furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and glass. An illustrated catalogue, Art of Illinois, is available from the Illinois Governor’s Mansion Association, Springfield, Illinois. Included from the M. Christine Schwartz Collection:

MACENA BARTON
The Lobster

FREDERICK FURSMAN
Maizie under the Boughs (No. 16, Saugatuck, Michigan)

Jewel City: Art of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

De Young Museum, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, October 17, 2015–January 10, 2016. Marking the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, the exhibition presents a representative cross-section from the original display, including approximately 250 works by major American and European artists. Included from the M. Christine Schwartz Collection:

lawton parker

La Paresse (Idleness), 1853

Pauline Palmer, Impressionist: Chicago’s Painter Lady

Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan, November 21, 2013–February 23, 2014. An exhibition of portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes by Pauline Palmer from the Aerne Collection and regional public and private collections. Included from the M. Christine Schwartz Collection:

Pauline palmer

Woman Sewing