Strange Worlds

1. Todros Geller (1889–1949), Chicago, until 1949; to the Leon Garland Foundation, Chicago, 1949; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5479/chicago-and-vicinity-34th-annual"><em>Thirty-Forth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity</em></a>, Jan. 30–Mar. 9, 1930, cat. 65.
• New York, World Alliance for Yiddish Culture, First Exhibition, Feb. 26–Mar. 27, 1938, cat. 28.
• Chicago, Board of Jewish Education and the American Jewish Arts Club, <em>Todros Geller: Memorial Program and Exhibition</em>, Apr. 2–June 14, 1949, cat. 3.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6036/art-in-illinois-in-honor-of-the-illinois-sesquicentennial"><em>Art in Illinois: In Honor of the Illinois Sesquicentennial</em></a>, June 15–Sept. 8, 1968 [downloadable checklist available].
• Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, <em>Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New</em>, July 17–Oct. 31, 2004, cat. 36.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1567/they-seek-a-city-chicago-and-the-art-of-migration-1910-1950"><em>They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950</em></a>, Mar. 3–Jun. 2, 2013, cat. 21.
• Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 69.
• Chicago, Newberry Library, <em>Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago</em>, Dec. 12, 2024–Mar. 29, 2025, no cat.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em><em>Thirty-Forth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1930), n.p., cat. 65.
• Elizabeth Kennedy, <em>Chicago Modern, 1893–1945: Pursuit of the New</em>, exh. cat. (Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2004), cat. 36.
• Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 141–42, cat. 57 (ill.).
• Sarah Kelly Oehler, <em>They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 27, 31–34, cat. 21 (ill.).
• Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 69.

Holy Emissary, from Yiddish Motifs

Art Institute of Chicago

Maxwell Street, Chicago, from Yiddish Motifs

Art Institute of Chicago

Horse Radish Grinder, from Yiddish Motifs

Art Institute of Chicago

Yiddel Mit'n Fiddle, Berl Mit'n Bass..., from Yiddish Motifs

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For the Sin which We have Committed, from Yiddish Motifs

Art Institute of Chicago

God's Shadows

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South of Chicago

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Milkweed and Skyscrapers

Art Institute of Chicago

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