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The collection of the Art Institute of Chicago encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world and contains more than 300,000 works of art in 11 curatorial departments, ranging from early Japanese prints to the art of the Byzantine Empire to contemporary American art. It is principally known for one of the ...
The main page for this category is Art Institute of Chicago. Pages in category "Photographs in the Art Institute of Chicago" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
The museum's collections are spread throughout eight buildings in Chicago, and not all works are on display. The entire collection houses over 300,000 objects, thousands of which are on view at any given time, and only 2,382 of these are paintings.
Young Spartans Exercising, also known as Young Spartans and as Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys, [1] is an early oil on canvas painting by French impressionist artist Edgar Degas. The work depicts two groups of male and female Spartan youth exercising and challenging each other in some way.
The main page for this category is Art Institute of Chicago. Pages in category "Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago" The following 75 pages are in this category ...
The painting shows a peasant farm girl walking in a field transfixed, listening to birdsong at dawn. It was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1885. Since 1894, it has been part of the Henry Field Memorial Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. [1]
The various elements of the painting are unified through brushwork; short, crisp strokes were used to paint the grasses of the cliff, the girls' drapery and the distant sea. A sense of movement suggested by painterly calligraphy was a property of Monet's work in the 1880s, and is here used to connote the effect of a summer wind upon figures ...
Sculptures in the Art Institute of Chicago (14 P) Pages in category "Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.