Exhibition

In 1921, Joseph Winterbotham (1852–1925), a Chicago-based collector of modern art, established a fund at the Art Institute of Chicago that was dedicated to acquiring "modern paintings by foreign artists."¹ Though he died several years later, his son continued to support the Winterbotham Plan, which ultimately acquired thirty-five paintings—including works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, André Derain, and Modigliani, among others—for the museum.

1. Katharine Kuh, "The Winterbotham Plan," The Winterbotham Collection. Exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1947), 2.