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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 10342011, member: 5833&quot;]The painting was a scene of downtown Chicago, along Michigan Avenue, as seen from the front of the Art Institute of Chicago.&nbsp; What was at issue was the date, which the ARS appraiser originally put as c. 1910, based on plausible reasoning, but apparently without any deep dive into Chicago architectural history.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were contacted by a serious Chicago architecture buff, who, based on his interpretation of some rather sketchy background buildings, moved the date to (I think) 1927.&nbsp; An even more learned buff saw the background differently &amp; moved the date to c. 1925.</p><p><br /></p><p>I may not have the years quite right, but that&#039;s the gist of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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