This presentation features the most ephemeral of all Japanese prints, Edo-period fans depicting popular Kabuki actors, ...

Rufino met a sympathetic soul in the artist and fellow Escuela Nacional student María Izquierdo.

Admission is free for Illinois residents on the dates listed below. You can reserve your free tickets online in advance; your resident status will be verified using the zip code associated with the ...

Between the summer of 1794 and early spring of 1795, an artist using the name Tōshūsai Sharaku produced around 150 prints representing Kabuki actors: a prolific display of innovation in a mere ten ...

During her short life, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) radically charted her own path, exploring the singular aspects of the feminine experience in a bold style that foreshadowed Expressionism. Her ...

Jean-Antoine Houdon was one of the greatest sculptors of the 18th century, and he had a particular talent for portrait busts. Commissioned in 1780, one year after her first marriage, this bust of ...

Since 2019, Giovanni Verri has been a conservation scientist in the Department of Conservation and Science. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Ferrara, Italy, and MA in conservation of ...

Combining painting, sculpture, and carpentry, this unique object was created collaboratively by Paul Gauguin and his younger contemporary Émile Bernard. Their artistic experiments, often undertaken in ...

In the late 1940s Clyfford Still, along with Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, originated the type of Abstract Expressionism known as color-field painting, a term used to describe very large canvases ...

Untitled (Portrait of Older Man with Two Children), 1870/1900 ...

The Art Institute uses a security screening and weapon-detection system at all entrances. The system uses low-frequency (ELF) radio waves—in the range used by the anti-theft systems many retail stores ...

Untitled (Portrait of Man with Large Mustache), 1850/99 ...