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 ...

Join us for a conversation on Neoclassical art from the French Revolution to learn why, during a period of Enlightenment ...

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 ...

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, ...

A lone peasant girl pauses her work to listen to a lark singing in the distance. Her emotional response to this moment of natural beauty is accentuated by the glow of the sun rising behind her, ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1867 Claude Monet stayed with his aunt in Sainte-Adresse, an affluent suburb of the port city of Le Havre in Normandy, where the artist grew up. Monet began the painting outdoors on ...

¿Quieres explorar el museo, pero no sabes por dónde empezar? Únete a un guía experto para un recorrido de 45 minutos sobre obras de arte icónicas y otros tesoros menos conocidos del museo. Durante ...

Free admission to the Art Institute of Chicago is available to current Illinois educators, including pre-K–12 teachers, teaching artists working in schools, and homeschool parents. Educators can ...

Let your imagination take over on this journey through the Thorne Rooms—miniature and, as generations of Art Institute visitors have found, wonderfully transporting. Narcissa Niblack Thorne, the ...

Referred to as a memento mori (reminder of death) for cows, the Cow Bench is a reminder of the animal origin of leather furniture. Frames made of wood and foam mimic the ribs and spine of a cow’s ...

Via Crucis; Christ Falling Beneath the Cross (recto) Sketch of Male Nude (verso), 1560/70 Follower of Luca Cambiaso Studies of Warriors, Horsemen, and Lions (recto); Studies of Heads and Nude Figures, ...