Museum Exhibition
Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene
Art Institute of Chicago
February 8, 2020 – August 10, 2020
The first retrospective of the 19th-century photographer, whose scenes of ancient Egypt prompt consideration of the complex relationships between photography, archaeology, colonialism, and modern art.
Exhibition artworks
Representative work
![Untitled [Roman sculptures, Cherchell Museum]](https://nrerksvbstdohxgxmovt.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/museum-images/aic/artworks/202884.jpg)
John Beasley Greene
Untitled [Roman sculptures, Cherchell Museum]
1856
Salted paper print
Image/paper: 28.4 × 22.9 cm (11 3/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Mount: 61.9 × 47.3 cm (24 3/8 × 18 5/8 in.); Frame: 68 × 57.8 × 3.9 cm (26 13/16 × 22 13/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
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Ancient Egyptian
Statue of Shebenhor
Late Period, Dynasty 26 (664-525 BCE)
Basalt
28 × 13 × 16.3 cm (11 × 5 1/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
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Ancient Egyptian
Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet
Middle Kingdom, early Dynasty 12, about 1956–1877 BCE
Limestone and pigment
31.1 × 41.7 × 6.7 cm (12 1/4 × 16 3/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
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Francis Frith
Osiride Pillars and Great Fallen Colossus
c. 1857, printed 1862
Albumen print, from the album "Egypt, Palestine and Nubia" (1862)
Image: 14.3 × 22.7 cm (5 11/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Paper: 31.6 × 43.4 cm (12 1/2 × 17 1/8 in.)
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John Beasley Greene
Tombeau de la chrétienne. Vue du côté nord. (Tomb of the Christian Woman. View of the North Side.)
1855
Albumen print
Image/paper: 22.8 × 28.4 cm (9 × 11 3/16 in.)
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John Beasley Greene
Untitled (Still life with a statuette of the Venus de Milo)
1852-53
Waxed paper negative
31.4 × 24.3 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.); frame: 52.8 × 42.6 × 3.9 cm (20 13/16 × 16 13/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
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