Current Exhibits at the Sterling Morton Library

 Jens Jensen: Landscapes for People

June 28, 2011 - December 29, 2012

Drawing on the strengths of the Jens Jensen collections in the Sterling Morton Library, this exhibit features landscape drawings, archival photographs, and modern color photographs to introduce visitors to Jensen’s philosophies as laid out in his 1939 book Siftings. The exhibit demonstrates how Jensen’s naturalistic, prairie-inspired style of landscape design has established him as a major figure in American landscape architecture and focuses on what Jensen always intended his landscapes to be for: people. His landscapes thus emerge not only as sites of aesthetic beauty but as expressions of Jensen’s theories of the social impact of landscape architecture.

This exhibit is presented in conjunction with Festival of the Architecture Book, 1511-2011

Flora! Illuminated..., has endend but you can still view the exhibit and more on the exhibit website. Click on the banner below to view!

Darwin's Flowers: Unlocking Natural Selection has closed, but you can still view the exhibit and much more on the exhibit website. Click on the banner below to view!

Worth His Salt: Joy Morton and the Plan of Chicago and Make Big Plans, Daniel Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis have been extended indefinitely. Be sure to stop in and see these fascinating exhibits before they are gone!