Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995 is the product of a long interest at the museum in the research and collecting of works from the history of the arts of Chicago. It is being presented from the history of the arts in Chicago. It is being presented for one of the most traditional of curatorial agendas: for it reveals an understudied and fascinating subject, filled with artists and objects whose accomplishments and excellence deserve the widest recognition. If, as can be argued, Chicago is the best kept secret in modern art, then printmaking in Chicago is the double-hushed secret deeply embedded within that. As we hope this exhibition will indicate, printmaking provides a particularly concentrated forum for an examination of modern art in Chicago, for these works illustrate the wonderful range of independent and idiosyncratic visions that have been the bedrock of one of the most important art centers in America. At the same time, Second Sight will bring many of the artists of America’s ‘second city’ within the context of a national historical dialogue.

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