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Established 1879; in present location since 1893
Location 111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60603
U.s.
Coordinates 41°52′46″Northward 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°N 87.62389°Westward  / 41.87944; -87.62389 Coordinates: 41°52′46″N 87°37′26″West  /  41.87944°North 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389
Collection size 300,000 works
Visitors i.79 million (2016)[1]
365,660 (2020) (drop due to COVID-19 pandemic closures)[2]
Director James Rondeau
Public transit access CTA Motorcoach routes:
(6 and 28 line)

'50' and Subway stations:

Adams-Wabash:

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Green Line

Orange Line

Pink Line

Purple Line


Monroe/Country:

Red Line


Monroe/Dearborn:

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Metra Train:
Van Buren Street Station
Website www.artic.edu

The Art Constitute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 million people annually.[3] Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat'southward A Lord's day on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and Grant Wood'south American Gothic. Its permanent collection of almost 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific inquiry.

As a research establishment, the Art Plant as well has a conservation and conservation science department, 5 conservation laboratories, and one of the largest art history and architecture libraries in the state—the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.

The growth of the collection has warranted several additions to the museum's 1893 building, which was constructed for the World'southward Columbian Exposition. The virtually recent expansion, the Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano, opened in 2009 and increased the museum's footprint to nearly i million foursquare feet, making it the second-largest art museum in the United states, later the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[4] The Art Institute is associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a leading art school, making it one of the few remaining unified arts institutions in the United States.

In 2017, the Art Plant received 1,619,316 visitors, and was the 35th near-visited art museum in the world.[5] However, in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum was airtight for 169 days, and attendance plunged by 78 percent from 2019, to 365,660.[vi]

History [edit]

In 1866, a group of 35 artists founded the Chicago Academy of Blueprint in a studio on Dearborn Street, with the intent to run a gratuitous school with its own art gallery. The organization was modeled after European art academies, such as the Royal Academy, with Academicians and Associate Academicians. The Academy'southward charter was granted in March 1867.

Classes started in 1868, meeting every day at a cost of $10 per month. The Academy'southward success enabled it to build a new domicile for the school, a five-story stone edifice on 66 West Adams Street, which opened on November 22, 1870.

When the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the building in 1871 the Academy was thrown into debt. Attempts to continue despite the loss by using rented facilities failed. By 1878, the Academy was $10,000 in debt. Members tried to rescue the bilious institution past making deals with local businessmen, before some finally abandoned it in 1879 to found a new organization, named the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. When the Chicago Academy of Design went broke the same year, the new Chicago Academy of Fine Arts bought its assets at auction.

This 1893 sketch of the then new Art Institute of Chicago shows almost of today'south Grant Park nonetheless submerged under Lake Michigan, with the railroad tracks running along the shoreline backside the Museum

In 1882, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts changed its name to the current Art Establish of Chicago and elected as its first president the banker and philanthropist Charles 50. Hutchinson, who "is arguably the single most important individual to take shaped the direction and fortunes of the Art Establish of Chicago".[vii] : v Hutchinson was a director of many prominent Chicago organizations, including the University of Chicago,[8] and would transform the Art Institute into a world-class museum during his presidency, which he held until his expiry in 1924.[nine] Too in 1882, the organization purchased a lot on the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street for $45,000. The existing commercial building on that property was used for the organization'southward headquarters, and a new addition was constructed behind it to provide gallery space and to house the school's facilities.[vii] : xix By Jan 1885 the trustees recognized the need to provide additional space for the organization'southward growing collection, and to this end purchased the vacant lot directly south on Michigan Avenue. The commercial building was demolished,[x] and the noted architect John Wellborn Root was hired by Hutchinson to blueprint a building that would create an "impressive presence" on Michigan Avenue,[seven] : 22–23 and these facilities opened to groovy fanfare in 1887.[7] : 24

With the annunciation of the Globe'due south Columbian Exposition to be held in 1892–93, the Art Plant pressed for a edifice on the lakefront to be constructed for the off-white, but to be used by the Institute afterwards. The city agreed, and the building was completed in time for the second year of the off-white. Construction costs were met past selling the Michigan/Van Buren property. On October 31, 1893, the Institute moved into the new building. For the opening reception on Dec 8, 1893, Theodore Thomas and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed.

From the early 1900s (to the 1960s the school offered with the Logan Family (members of the lath) the Logan Medal of the Arts, an honor which became one of the nigh distinguished awards presented to artists in the The states. Between 1959 and 1970, the institute was a key site in the boxing to gain art and documentary photography a place in galleries, nether curator Hugh Edwards and his assistants.

As Manager of the museum starting in the early 1980s, James N. Wood conducted a major expansion of its collection and oversaw a major renovation and expansion project for its facilities. Equally "one of the most respected museum leaders in the country", as described by The New York Times, Wood created major exhibitions of works by Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh that set records for attendance at the museum. He retired from the museum in 2004.[11]

The Plant began structure of "The Modern Fly", an add-on situated on the southwest corner of Columbus and Monroe in the early 21st century.[12] The projection, designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano, was completed and officially opened to the public on May 16, 2009. The 264,000-square-pes (24,500 grandii) building addition fabricated the Art Institute the second-largest art museum in the United States. The building houses the museum'south world-renowned collections of 20th and 21st century fine art, specifically modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary fine art, compages and design, and photography. In its inaugural survey in 2014, travel review website and forum, Tripadvisor, reviewed millions of travelers' surveys and named the Art Plant the world'south best museum.[13]

The museum received peradventure the largest gift of art in its history in 2015.[xiv] Collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson donated a "drove [that] is among the world's greatest groups of postwar Popular fine art e'er assembled".[15] The donation includes works past Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter. The museum agreed to continue the donated work on brandish for at least 50 years.[15] In June 2018, the museum received a $50 million donation, the largest unmarried announced monetary donation in its history.[16]

Collection [edit]

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 United states' finest collection of paintings produced in Western culture.[17] [18]

African Art and Indian Art of the Americas [edit]

The Art Institute's African Art and Indian Art of the Americas collections are on display across ii galleries in the south end of the Michigan Avenue building. The African collection includes more 400 works that span the continent, highlighting ceramics, garments, masks, and jewelry.[19]

The Amerindian collection includes Native North American art and Mesoamerican and Andean works. From pottery to textiles, the drove brings together a wide array of objects that seek to illustrate the thematic and aesthetic focuses of fine art spanning the Americas.[xx]

American Art [edit]

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942

The Art Institute's American Fine art collection contains some of the best-known works in the American canon, including Edward Hopper'southward Nighthawks, Grant Forest's American Gothic, and Mary Cassatt'due south The Child's Bath. The collection ranges from colonial silver to modern and contemporary paintings.

The museum purchased Nighthawks in 1942 for $3,000;[21] [22] [23] its acquisition "launched" the painting into "immense popular recognition".[24] Considered an "icon of American civilisation",[21] [25] Nighthawks is possibly Hopper's well-nigh famous painting, too every bit i of the most recognizable images in American art.[26] [27] [28] Also well known, American Gothic has been in the museum'due south collection since 1930 and was merely loaned outside of Northward America for the first time in 2016.[29] Wood's painting depicts what has been called "the most famous couple in the world", a dour, rural-American, male parent and daughter. Information technology was entered into a competition at the Art Institute in 1930, and although non a favorite of some, it won a medal and was acquired by the museum.[30] [31]

Aboriginal and Byzantine [edit]

The Art Found's ancient collection spans most four,000 years of art and history, showcasing Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Egyptian sculpture, mosaics, pottery, jewelry, drinking glass, and bronze too equally a robust and well-maintained collection of ancient coins. There are around 5,000 works in the collection, offer a comprehensive survey of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, offset with the third millennium B.C. and extending to the Byzantine Empire.[32] The collection also holds the mummy and mummy case of Paankhenamun.[33] [34]

Architecture and Design [edit]

The Department of Compages and Design holds more 140,000 works, from models to drawings from the 1870s to the present day. The collection covers landscape architecture, structural engineering science, and industrial blueprint, including the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.[35]

Asian Art [edit]

The Art Constitute'due south Asian drove spans almost five,000 years, including significant works and objects from China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, and the Near and Heart East. There are 35,000 objects in the collection, showcasing bronzes, ceramics, and jades also as textiles, screens, woodcuts, and sculptures.[36] One gallery in detail attempts to mimic the quiet and meditative way in which Japanese screens are traditionally viewed.

European Decorative Arts [edit]

The Art Constitute'due south collection of European decorative arts includes some 25,000 objects of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass, enamel, and ivory from 1100 A.D. to the nowadays day. The department contains the 1,544 objects in the Arthur Rubloff Paperweight Collection and the 68 Thorne Miniature Rooms–a collection of miniaturized interiors of a 1:12 scale showcasing American, European, and Asian architectural and furniture styles from the Middle Ages to the 1930s (when the rooms were constructed).[37] Both the paperweights and the Thorne Rooms are located on the footing floor of the museum.

European Painting and Sculpture [edit]

Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884/86

The museum is most famous for its collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, widely regarded every bit 1 of the finest collections outside of France.[38] Highlights include more than than 30 paintings by Claude Monet, including vi of his Haystacks and a number of Water Lilies. As well in the collection are important works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir such as Two Sisters (On the Terrace), and Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy Day. Post-Impressionist works include Paul Cézanne's The Handbasket of Apples, and Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair. At the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is another highlight. The pointillist masterpiece, which also inspired a musical and was famously featured in Ferris Bueller'south Mean solar day Off, Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte—1884, is prominently displayed. Additionally, Henri Matisse'southward Bathers by a River, is an important example of his work. Highlights of non-French paintings of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection include Vincent van Gogh'due south Bedroom in Arles and Self-portrait, 1887.

In the mid-1930s, the Art Constitute received a gift of over 1 hundred works of fine art from Annie Swan Coburn ("Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection"). The "Coburn Renoirs" became the core of the Art Plant's Impressionist painting drove.[39]

The collection also includes the Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor holdings, including the George F. Harding Collection of artillery and armor,[40] and iii centuries of Old Masters works.[41]

Modern and Gimmicky Art [edit]

The museum's collection of mod and gimmicky art was significantly augmented when collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson gifted xl plus master works to the department in 2015.[42] Pablo Picasso's Old Guitarist, Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River, Constantin Brâncuși'southward Golden Bird, and René Magritte'southward Time Transfixed are highlights of the mod galleries, located on the 3rd flooring of the Modern Wing.[43] The gimmicky installation, located on the 2nd floor, contains works by Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, and other significant modern and gimmicky artists.

Photography [edit]

The Art Found didn't officially establish a photography collection until 1949, when Georgia O'Keeffe donated a significant portion of the Alfred Stieglitz drove to the museum.[44] Since then, the museum's collection has grown to approximately xx,000 works spanning the history of the artform from its inception in 1839 to the present.

Prints and Drawings [edit]

The impress and drawings collection began with a donation by Elizabeth S. Stickney of 460 works in 1887, and was organized into its own department of the museum in 1911.[45] Their holdings have subsequently grown to eleven,500 drawings and 60,000 prints, ranging from 15th-century works to contemporary. The drove contains a strong group of the works of Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, and James McNeill Whistler. Because works on paper are sensitive to low-cal and dethrone quickly, the works are on display infrequently in order to proceed them in skillful condition for every bit long as possible.

Textiles [edit]

The Department of Textiles has more than 13,000 textiles and 66,000 sample swatches in total, roofing an array of cultures from 300 B.C. to the present. From English needlework to Japanese garments to American quilts, the drove presents a various group of objects, including contemporary works and fiber art.[46]

Compages [edit]

Michigan Avenue entrance today

A postcard of the Art Institute dated 1907

The electric current building at 111 South Michigan Artery is the third address for the Art Constitute. It was designed in the Beaux-Arts style past Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston[47] for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition as the World'southward Congress Auxiliary Building with the intent that the Art Establish occupy the space later the fair closed.

The Fine art Found'southward famous western entrance on Michigan Artery is guarded past two bronze lion statues created by Edward Kemeys. The lions were unveiled on May ten, 1894, each weighing more than two tons. The sculptor gave them unofficial names: the south lion is "stands in an attitude of defiance", and the northward lion is "on the prowl". When a Chicago sports team plays in the championships of their respective league (i.due east. the Super Bowl or Stanley Cup Finals, not the unabridged playoffs), the lions are oft dressed in that team'southward uniform. Evergreen wreaths are placed around their necks during the Christmas season.

The east entrance of the museum is marked by the stone arch entrance to the former Chicago Stock Exchange. Designed by Louis Sullivan in 1894, the Exchange was torn down in 1972, but salvaged portions of the original trading room were brought to the Art Found and reconstructed.

The Art Establish edifice has the unusual property of straddling open-air railroad tracks. Two stories of gallery infinite connect the east and westward buildings while the Metra Electric and S Shore lines operate below. The lower level of gallery space was formerly the windowless Gunsaulus hall, but is now home to the Alsdorf Galleries showcasing Indian, Southeast Asian and Himalayan Art. During renovation, windows facing northward toward Millennium Park were added. The gallery infinite was designed by Renzo Piano in conjunction with his design of the Modern Wing and features the same window screening used at that place to protect the art from direct sunlight. The upper level formerly held the modern European galleries, but was renovated in 2008 and now features the Impressionist and Mail service-Impressionist galleries.

Libraries [edit]

Located on the ground floor of the museum is the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries. The Libraries' collections encompass all periods of fine art, but is most known for its extensive collection of 18th to 20th century architecture. It serves the museum staff, college and academy students, and is also open to the general public. The Friends of the Libraries, a support grouping for the Libraries, offers events and special tours for its members.

Modern Wing [edit]

Art Found of Chicago Modernistic Wing

On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Fly, the largest expansion in the museum'south history.[48] The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 g2) addition, designed past Renzo Piano, makes the Art Found the second-largest museum in the Usa.[4] The architect of record in the Metropolis of Chicago for this edifice was Interactive Blueprint.[49] The Modern Fly is habitation to the museum's drove of early 20th-century European art, including Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Henri Matisse's Bathers past a River, and René Magritte's Time Transfixed. The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Drove of Surrealist art includes the largest public brandish of Joseph Cornell's works (37 boxes and collages).[50] The Fly likewise houses gimmicky art from afterward 1960; new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries including original renderings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Bruce Goff; temporary exhibition infinite; shops and classrooms; a cafe and a eatery, Terzo Pianoforte, that overlooks Millennium Park from its terrace.[51] In addition, the Nichols Bridgeway connects a sculpture garden on the roof of the new wing with the side by side Millennium Park to the north and a courtyard designed by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. In 2009, the Modern Wing won at the Chicago Innovation Awards.[52]

Selections from the permanent collection [edit]

Note that other notable works are in the collection but the following examples are ones in the public domain and for which pictures are available. In 2018, as it redesigned its website, the Fine art Institute released 52,438 of its public domain works, nether the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence.[53]

Paintings [edit]

Sculptures [edit]

More than highlights from the drove [edit]

Governance [edit]

Attendance [edit]

During 2009, attendance was effectually 2 one thousand thousand—upward 33 percent from 2008—in addition to a total of approximately 100,000 museum memberships. Despite a 25 percentage boost in museum admission fees, the Modern Wing was a major goad for a rising in visitor traffic.[54]

Finances [edit]

As of 2011, the Art Institute continues to rebuild its $783 meg endowment since the recession.[55] In June 2008, its endowment was $827 million. As of 2012, the museum is rated A1 by Moody'due south, its 5th-highest course, in part reflecting the museum's pension and retirement liabilities; Standard & Poor's rates the museum A+, fifth-best. In Oct 2012, the Fine art Institute sold well-nigh $100 meg of taxable and tax-exempt bonds partly to shore up unfunded pension obligations.[56]

The $294 1000000 extension in 2009 was the culmination of a $385 million fundraising campaign—roughly $300 million for design and construction and $85 one thousand thousand for the endowment. Around $370 million were raised primarily from private patrons in Chicago.[57] In 2011, the Art Institute received a $ten million gift from the Jaharis Family unit Foundation to renovate and expand galleries devoted to Greek, Roman and Byzantine art, every bit well as to support acquisitions and special exhibitions of that art.[58]

Acquisitions and deaccessioning [edit]

In 1990, the Art Institute of Chicago sold eleven works at auction, including paintings past Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo and Edgar Degas, to raise the $12 million buy price of a bronze sculpture, Golden Bird, past Constantin BrâncuÈ™i. At the time, the sculpture was owned by the Arts Social club of Chicago, which was selling it to buy a new gallery for its other works.[59] In 2005, the museum sold two paintings by Marc Chagall and Auguste Renoir at Sotheby's.[sixty] In 2011, it auctioned 2 Picassos (Sur l'impériale traversant la Seine (1901) and Verre et pipe (1919)), Henri Matisse'south Femme au fauteuil (1919), and Georges Braque's Nature morte à la guitare (rideaux rouge) (1938) at Christie'due south in London.[61] [62]

Directors [edit]

  • William G.R. French (1885–1914)
  • Newton Carpenter (1914–1916)
  • George Eggers (1918–1921)
  • Robert Harshe (1921–1938)
  • Daniel Catton Rich (1938–1958)
  • Allen McNab (1956–1965)
  • Charles Cunningham (1965–1972)
  • Due east. Laurence Chalmers (1972–1986)
  • James North. Woods (1980–2004)
  • James Cuno (2004–2011)
  • Douglas Druick (2011–2016)
  • James Rondeau (2016–nowadays)

Controversy [edit]

Management of investments dispute [edit]

In 2002, the Art Found of Chicago filed adjust alleging fraud past a small Dallas firm called Integral Investment Direction, along with related parties. The museum, which put $43 one thousand thousand of its endowment into funds run by the defendants, claimed that information technology faced losses of up to 90% on the investments after they soured.[63]

Construction disputes [edit]

In 2010, the yr after the opening of its massive Modern Wing, the Fine art Institute of Chicago sued the applied science firm Ove Arup for $10 million over what it said were flaws in the physical floors and air-apportionment systems. The adapt was settled out of court.[64] [65]

Docent program diversity dispute [edit]

In 2021, the Art Institute concluded its unpaid volunteer docents program to move to a paid model. The Chicago Tribune editorial folio criticized the Intitute's letter announcing the alter and the motility to a new model, arguing that "[o]nce y'all cut through the blather, the letter basically said the museum had looked critically at its corps of docents, a group dominated by mostly (but not entirely) white, retired women with some time to spare, and found them wanting every bit a demographic."[66] The Institute's managing director, Robert K. Levy, responded in a Tribune op-ed supporting the change, and described the Tribune's editorial as having "numerous inaccuracies and mischaracterizations", noted that the docent program had already been largely on suspension for the past 15 months due to the COVID pandemic, and argued that the decision was not about anyone's identity, information technology was in keeping with changing modern museum practices around the world.[67]

Following a volunteerism surge in the belatedly 1940s, the program had been created in 1961 to revitalize and aggrandize "programming for children."[68] Among other matters, since 2014 the program had been trying to attract a more diverse socioeconomic perspective ready of art-tour guides, given the unpaid time commitment needed.[69]

In popular civilisation [edit]

Director John Hughes included a sequence in the Art Institute in his 1986 moving picture Ferris Bueller's Twenty-four hour period Off, which is set in Chicago. During it the characters are shown viewing A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Hughes had first visited the Establish equally a "refuge" while in high school. Hughes' commentary on the sequence was used as a reference point by announcer Hadley Freeman in a give-and-take of the Republican presidential main candidates in 2011.[71]

The paintings used in the 1970 Parker Brothers board game Masterpiece are works held in the Art Found's drove.[72] [ non-primary source needed ]

See also [edit]

  • American Academy of Art
  • Bessie Bennett, early 20th century Curator of Decorative Fine art
  • Woods Idyll
  • List of most-visited museums in the United States
  • List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago
  • Alme Meyvis
  • Visual arts of Chicago

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