Art Institute of Chicago
View allAll Photos Tagged institute
A Metra outbound Rock Island local passes the Illinois Institute of Technology's main campus building as it approaches Lou Jones Station. Leading the way was Metra 201 in its now gone classic blue scheme.
Morning light on the pre-Victorian Meanwood Institute. I read that they have two snooker tables made in 1885.
Three pieces of carving from antiquity, about which not a great deal is known. This is a fragment of a stone relief from 5th century Persepolis, only a few inches high.
This photo is part of a walk through the campus of the Aspen Institute inspired and designed by Bauhaus artist (architect and designer) Herbert Bayer.
Salem, Massachusetts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_Institute
Scanned Color Negative, Kodak Gold 100, Circa March 1989
Low angle shot of the old Working Lads Institute on Whitechapel Road opposite the old Royal London Hospital Building. Some of the inquests into the Whitechapel Murders of 1888-1891 were held here.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 24mm F2.8D lens. Ferrania Orto 50 35mm B&W film.
This sandstone building with rendered window and door trim, quoins and highly decorative parapet
was constructed in 1904 as an Institute Building and is now used as a private residence. The highly
decorative parapet features decorative pilasters and balustrading with elaborate mouldings. The front
of the building has been altered, wit the entry closed in with a sandstone and glass block porch.
The Institute was constructed after a public campaign to erect a building in which to hold meetings
and public gatherings in the Wayville area. Land was purchased from the SA Company and the hall
and attached room was opened in December 1904. Ownership of the building was transferred to
Unley Council in 1929, and the property is now privately owned.
Source: data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/heritage-surveys/2-Unl...
Winning the Pike's Peak race, and placing 6th at Indy, this car went to auction with $6-700,000 estimates, and actually sold for $1.1 Million! Gorgeously restored, this image is from Laguna Seca, and the owner/driver let us sit in it with the Imposing steering wheel dominating your vision.
'As early as 1929, Ab Jenkins set his sights on Indy, but it wasn't until 1931 that he took his best shot. He'd already known George Hunt, Studebaker's testing chief, from his time racing Studebakers in endurance runs in the late Twenties, and according to Gordon Eliot White's "Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors," Studebaker owed Jenkins for his expenses, so he cashed in that IOU in the form of off-the-shelf Studebaker Commander axles, hardware, and a Commander 337-cu.in. straight-eight engine.
He and Hunt then took the lot over to Indianapolis-based Herman Rigling, who built one of his Indy chassis around the components and slid it under a Pop Dreyer-built aluminum body. Somebody - most likely Hunt - spent the time massaging the nine-main-bearing straight-eight with a 6.5:1 compression ratio aluminum cylinder head, four Studebaker truck carburetors, a Scintilla magneto, and a reground camshaft to bump the stock engine's output from 110 to 175 horsepower.
They built the car according to the so-called "junk formula" template that Eddie Rickenbacker initiated for the 1930 Indy 500. Over the prior 20 years, the race entries had grown ever more exotic, expensive, and removed from the vehicles that carmakers offered. In an attempt to lure those carmakers back to supporting Indy, Rickenbacker increased allowable engine displacement from 91.5 cubic inches to 366 cubic inches for heavier, naturally aspirated four-stroke engine-vehicle combinations and re-instituted the riding mechanic.
Jenkins's illness forced him and Hunt to find another driver, Indy veteran Tony Gulotta, who qualified in the No. 37 car at 111 MPH. Along with riding mechanic Carl Riscigno, Gulotta turned in a spectacular performance. While they started in the middle of the pack, according to The Old Motor, Guletta was given the signal to run flat our with 80 laps to go then "passed 18 cars in the next 46 laps and was running in first place when he hit a patch of oil left over from a crash, and went into the wall ending its run." The two men walked away unscathed and Gulotta was credited with 18th place.
Hunt took the car straight back to South Bend to repair it before entering it - still wearing No. 37 - in that year's Pikes Peak hillclimb. While White makes mention of Jenkins's involvement in the car throughout this period, Pikes Peak records list the car as the Hunt Special and another driver, Chuck Myers, drove the car in the event. Myers did well too, beating out Jerry Unser and Glen Shultz with a time of 17 minutes, 10.3 seconds, good enough for an overall win and a course record.'
thanks to Hemming's Motor News.
Double click on the image to enlarge for details
Repurposed as the Neighbourhood centre is this lovely Mechanics Institute building in the small town of Ballan, near Ballarat. There is an interesting iron sculpture outside the front. I liked the modern signage and solar panels contrasting with the older building sign. Mechanics Insitutes were forerunners of the modern public library plus had skill development /learning as their major purpose. Happy Window Wednesday.
monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/culture/community/display...
Plus Moorabool Earth Totem by Peter Blizzard
Moorabool Earth Totem is a sculpture by well-known artist Peter Blizzard. It is located outside the interesting historical Mechanics Institute building in Ballan.
Location: 143 Inglis Street, Ballan
“The Crowning with Thorns” In 1975, when I was an art student at Pratt Institute, I took a printmaking class. My failed attempts at etching has already been posted. Here is the only lithograph I ever did. Luckily we used a metal plate and not stone. I’m not THAT old. I liked lithography better than etching because it was more like drawing with pencil. But, you still couldn’t rework, erase, etc. And it was just too much work. Finding these old pieces of mine are bringing back a lot of memories during this continuing lockdown from the coronavirus.
Causeyside Street, Paisley
The Russell Institute is a building in Paisley, Scotland.
The building was generously donated by Agnes Russell to the Burgh of Paisley as a memorial to her two brothers, Thomas and Robert Russell, who passed away in 1913 and 1920 respectively. Initially, it served as a child welfare clinic, but today, Renfrewshire Council utilizes it as a multi purpose facility.
Attempting Fine Art photography in a deserted section of the Art Institute, Chicago
Model: Sarah Schultz
Detail from Diego Rivera's immense and amazing"Detroit Industry" fresco murals in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
This photo is part of a walk through the campus of the Aspen Institute inspired and designed by Bauhaus artist (architect and designer) Herbert Bayer.
A former Methodist Church has been converted into a Tibetan Buddhist Institute. Monks also live here.
Close up of the words of the old Working Lads Institute on Whitechapel Road. This building held inquests into some of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888.
Nikon F4. Ferrania Orto 50 35mm B&W film.
Flower photography at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun.
pixelspeaks.photography/galleries/forest-research-institu...
"The original Leongatha Mechanics' Institute was erected on the Memorial Hall site in 1891. The present building, consisting of two large rooms and a billiard saloon, was opened by The Hon J.E. Mackey on 26 March 1912. It functioned as a library, meeting room and billiard room until 1982. The Leongatha and District Historical Society was given the use of the building by the Shire of Woorayl in 1983."
Source: plaque on the building
From the series The Institute.
Closeup photo of an architectural model of the Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing.
Cyanotype print on Rives BFK paper, 2006
ISO 100, f8 @ 30mm, 20:22, 15sec.
You can also find me here: website, facebook
Or have a look at my book: "Fairytales and Nightingales": www.markuslehr.com/fairytales-and-nightingales/
Sri Mulam Shastiabdapurthi Memorial Institute,built in 1917 to commemorate the 60th birthday of HH Sri Mulam Thirunal, Maharaja of Travancore
------------------------------------------------------
© 2007 Anuj Nair. All rights reserved.
-------------------------------------------------------
Contact : www.anujnair.net
______________________________________________________________________
© 2007 Anuj Nair. All rights reserved.
All images are the property of Anuj Nair.
Using these images without permission is in violation of
international copyright laws (633/41 DPR19/78-Disg 154/97-L.248/2000)
All materials may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished,
downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any forms or by
any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording
without written permission of Anuj Nair.
Every violation will be pursued penally.