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Art Institute of Chicago

an Elderhostel program on

Toulouse-Lautrec

August 25, 2005

 

arriving at Union Station by Amtrak

 

the exhibition

 

at the  Art Institute of Chicago

 

Greeted by the head of Senior Age programs in the former
Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room

 

learned of Aristide Bruant on the audio guide tour
of the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition

 

and May Milton

 

and of his sketches of the Circus Fernando

 

           

                   

            

         

click on the thumbnails to see a larger photo of some of his art

 

learned the way he signed his name on his Lithographs

 

Ms. Barbara Robertson as Jane Avril

 

described the life with Toulouse-Lautrec

 

and who appeared in this paintings of the night clubs

 

like the Moulin Rouge

 

saw a video on Toulouse-Lautrec

 

told of the Japanese influence on the contemporary French painting

 

by Robin Schnur

 

and visited the Shop

 

for mementos of the visit before going home

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