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A pupil of Jacob van Ruisdael, Meindert Hobbema often borrowed motifs from his teacher, such as the watermill seen here. Watermills, which Hobbema employed more than 30 times in his paintings and ...

CHICAGO—The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to unveil a newly imagined and installed gallery for the arts of Korea on November 1, 2024. The new installation is ...

The governing body for both the museum and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Board of Trustees is a group of highly dedicated individuals who bring their wide-ranging expertise to ensure ...

The most ephemeral of all Japanese prints, fans depicting popular Kabuki actors, beauties, and landscapes were common during the Edo period (1615–1868). They came in two shapes: the folding fan (ōgi) ...

Admission is free for Illinois residents on the dates listed below. You can reserve your free tickets online in advance; your resident status will be verified using the zip code associated with the ...

Emerging from darkness into a blaze of light falling from heaven, Saint Peter’s enraptured upward expression and gesture here suggest a moment of spiritual dialogue as he grapples with his bitter ...

“One instant, one aspect of nature contains it all,” said Claude Monet, referring to his late masterpieces, the water landscapes that he produced at his home in Giverny between 1897 and his death in ...

Pablo Picasso made The Old Guitarist while working in Barcelona. In the paintings of his Blue Period (1901-04), the artist restricted himself to a cold, monochromatic blue palette, flattened forms, ...

Find us on the first floor of the museum’s Modern Wing. Turn left after you enter at 159 East Monroe. The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Learning Center (RLC) is the museum’s hub for learning and ...

Shiraga Kazuo. Golden Wings Brushing the Clouds Incarnated from Earthly Wide Star (Chikatsusei Maunkinshi), 1960. Through prior purchase from the Mary and Leigh Block Fund, restricted gift of Barbara ...

Here Claude Monet’s future wife, Camille Doncieux, sits on an island in the Seine River, looking toward the hamlet of Gloton, next to the town of Bennecourt, from which she and Monet have presumably ...