Art Institute of Chicago Livres

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Founded in 1871, the Art Institute of Chicago has evolved into one of America's premier museums. This volume showcases 149 exceptional European and American paintings, spanning from the Renaissance to the 1990s. It features a rich selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, including Claude Monet's Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, Pierre Auguste Renoir's Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando, Vincent van Gogh's Bedroom, and Georges Pierre Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884. The collection also highlights eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American paintings, reflecting the diverse art of a burgeoning nation. Notable pieces include Winslow Homer's Herring Net, James McNeill Whistler's Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Southampton Water, Frederic Remington's Advance Guard, and Mary Cassatt's Child's Bath. Additionally, the volume explores twentieth-century art, featuring Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Rene Magritte's Surrealist masterpiece Time Transfixed, and works by American modernists Georgia O'Keeffe and Marsden Hartley, along with iconic images like Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Each of the 149 full-color illustrations is paired with concise, informative texts, while an introduction outlines the museum's origins and the evolution of its collections. The selection reflects the Art Institute's rich painting heritage.

This revised and expanded edition of the Essential Guide features 330 works of art, over fifty of them new additions to the book. The entries represent some of the finest pieces from—and were selected with the assistance of—the museum’s eleven curatorial African Art and Indian Art of the Americas, American Art, Ancient and Byzantine Art, Architecture and Design, Asian Art, Contemporary Art, European Decorative Arts, Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Drawings, and Textiles. Each work is reproduced in full color and discussed in a brief and lively entry. This convenient volume offers the reader a generous sampling of the celebrated works of one of the country’s most highly esteemed museums.