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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 ...
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The original portion of the Art Institute of Chicago Building with Fountain of the Great Lakes The new building was funded by the sale of the Van Buren Street building to the Chicago Club for $ 265,000, by donation of the land by the Chicago Park District , by $120,000 public subscription, and by $200,000 contribution of the Fair Corporation in ...
After only six-and-one-half years of marriage, Helen Birch Bartlett died of cancer on October 24, 1925. To honor his wife, Frederic presented their unique art collection to the Art Institute of Chicago in May 1926. The Helen Birch Memorial Collection has been permanently displayed in the museum continuously since the donation.
The Prime Mover: Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago. Museum Studies (36.1). New York: The Art Institute of Chicago. ISBN 978-0-86559-238-4. Miller, Donald L. (1996). City of the Century - The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-684-80194-9. Pierce, Bessie Louise (2007).
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. For artists with more than one type of work in the collection, or for works by artists not listed here, see the Artic website or the corresponding Wikimedia Commons category ...
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois.Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and school, SAIC has been accredited since 1936 by the Higher Learning Commission and by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 ...