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This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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. In the following list, the painter's name is followed by the number of their paintings in the collection, with a link to all of their works available on the Artic website.
Pages in category "Art museums and galleries in Illinois" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Mitchell Museum - named for John R. and Eleanor R. Mitchell, who bequeathed their art collection to Cedarhurst in 1973 - contains a collection of American paintings including works by Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, William Glackens, Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, and other early-20th-century masters.
The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m 2) building addition made the Art Institute the second-largest art museum in the United States. The building houses the museum's world-renowned collections of 20th and 21st century art, specifically modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, architecture and design, and photography.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of the world’s most famous paintings is now on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Called “Under the Wave off Kanagawa,” this painting has inspired countless ...
Miriam McKinnie's mural study for the post office in Forest Park, Illinois (1939) Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture , later called the Section of Fine Arts , of the Treasury Department .
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri 208 15.9 × 25 More images: 1890 The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe [133] Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis 209 73 × 92 More images: 1890 Gravelines. Grand Fort Philippe [134] National Gallery, London 210 65 × 81 More images: 1890 The Channel at Gravelines, in the Direction ...