Helen Gardner lectured only in Europe.
The Art Institute of Chicago , founded in 1879 and located in Chicago 's Grant Park , is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States . Helen Gardner (art historian) . In 1919 , she became the head of the photograph and lantern-slides department at the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago . The next year she started to teach an art history course at the School of the Art Institute .