The Art Institute of Chicago
28th September 2007
2pm
Jules Breton's Song of the Lark has long been a popular artwork in the Art Institute's collection. This was particularly the case in the 1930s, when the painting was judged America's Best Loved Picture in a contest sponsored by the Chicago Daily News. When the contest winner was announced in 1934,
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt unveiled the painting at a ceremony held at the museum.
Come to the Express Talk on September 28 at 2:00 to find out how a painting featuring a Breton peasant girl came to be widely reproduced, even inspiring the American novelist Willa Cather's 1915 book The Song of the Lark.
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