Chicago Bound: A Jake McGreevy middle-grade novel features the search for Mary Cassatt's lost mural from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago
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What we know so far:


• “We always heard that the missing Cassatt mural was at Notre Dame University, in a tunnel underneath campus that extends from the current Art and Art History building.”
• Three connections to the world of Chicago art:
Otto Lightner bought up a lot of art during Depression with a kind of take-what-you-want, but leave the rest approach among his Chicago neighbors. He moved his collection to St. Augustine into the old Alcazar Hotel of Flagler's empire sometime in the 40's or 50's then promptly died. It sat for more than 20 years.

Less exploitive was the collection of Frederic Clay Bartlett and his wife Evelyn Fortune Hunt. They certainly had the eye for great works as seen by what they left CAI.

Both sites have storage areas that a[re] less than academically inventoried.

​There is a great deal at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, but their catalog is available. . .still?
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Cassatt's Mural Was Last Seen at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois

About the Lost Cassatt

"Although Cassatt's mural, Modern Woman, was derided by critics of the time, their criticisms are testament to the way in which her depiction of women broke boundaries in the late nineteenth century."
—​Hutton, John. "Picking Fruit: Mary Cassatt's Modern Woman and the Woman's Building of 1893." Feminist Studies 20: 2 (1994): 318-48.

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