The Art Institute’s wide-ranging collection is a testament to thousands of years of human creativity and artistic ...

Following a period spent producing Parisian scenes in the style of Édouard Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard virtually reinvented his art around 1905. The artist’s new emphasis on ...

Rufino met a sympathetic soul in the artist and fellow Escuela Nacional student María Izquierdo.

This painting exemplifies Yves Tanguy’s late style, especially as he practiced it after his move to the United States in 1939, where he married the American painter Kay Sage. The forms have become ...

This painting of the ancient city of Delphi (in what is now Greece) presents a delicate rendering of the glowing Mediterranean atmosphere. Like many other foreign artists drawn to the ruins of ...

The Archives comprises four primary collections or categories of service, including: the Institutional Archives, the Institutional Photography Archive, the Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture ...

These collections bring together the seminal work of Louis H. Sullivan, “lieber meister” of Frank Lloyd Wright, early and late projects by Wright himself, and work by colleagues and students of Wright ...

Beginning in 1917, Henri Matisse spent most winters in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast. He often stayed at the Hôtel Mediterranée, a Rococo-style building he later fondly termed “faked, absurd, ...

The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to offer free, unrestricted use of over 50,000 images of works in the collection believed to be in the public domain or to which the museum otherwise waives any ...

Your personal, pocket-sized guide to the collection, the Art Institute app merges location-aware technology with audio storytelling, letting the art speak to you. The FREE app offers: Engaging audio ...

The Art Institute’s figure of Shukongojin, with his demon-like body, flaring eyes, and mouth stretched in a scream, might have originally terrified an oncoming visitor to the temple he guarded, but ...

Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, two of the most important daguerreotypists of the 19th century, created portraits for the social and financial elite. They preferred to work with ...