From Hinsdale to Paris Muse
28 September 2005
Chicago Sun-Times
Sensual dancer inspired artists in late 1800’s
By Andrew Herrmann
…Fuller’s art lives on, through lithograph and film, part of a current Art Institute exhibition of the works of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. A room is devoted to Fuller’s free-flowing sensual performances that inspired Lautrec and some 70 other painters, sculptors and musicians at the turn of the century.
On Thursday, a re-creation of Fuller’s dance style will be performed at the Art Institute’s Fullerton Hall. …”She performed in outfits that definitely showed her lines,” said dance historian Jessica Lindberg, who, by using film and written accounts of the era, has re-created Fuller’s act….