page_title: Narcissa Niblack Thorne
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Narcissa Niblack Thorne / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: A chandelier and office miniature, part of the Thorne room at the Art Institute of Chicago.
context_page_description: Narcissa Niblack Thorne was an American artist known for her extremely detailed miniature rooms. Her works depict historical interiors from Europe, Asia and North America from the late 13th to the early 20th century. The Thorne rooms are honored with dedicated exhibits in the Phoenix Art Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where a special wing was built to house them.
context_section_description: Due to poor health, Thorne closed her studio in March 1966, donating her remaining works to charity.  She died in Chicago in June of that year, and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery.
  Most of Thorne's works were donated to museums and remain there, although some were auctioned off in 1985.  Thorne herself arranged for thirty of the rooms to be auctioned off for charity in 1963.
  Approximately one hundred Thorne rooms are known to exist. The Art Institute of Chicago holds 68 Thorne rooms, which originally occupied a dedicated wing but are now housed in a large room in the building's lower level. An additional 20 are held by the Phoenix Art Museum, and nine by the Knoxville Museum of Art. The remaining two are at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and the Kaye Miniature Museum in Los Angeles. In addition to these, a bar that Thorne auctioned off for charity in the 1950s is at the Museum of Miniature Houses in Carmel, Indiana.
caption: A chandelier and office miniature
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