The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats in the famed Cirque Fernando in Paris. Although they were depicted in the center of a ...

In this work, Mary Cassatt addressed the theme for which she is best known—women and children—while also experimenting with compositional elements of Japanese art. Cassatt saw a large exhibition of ...

From the late seventeenth century to the present, well-attended public exhibitions of artwork in Paris created an opportunity for a diverse group of Parisians to view and form opinions about works of ...

Marc Chagall had a prolific career that spanned more than eight decades of the twentieth century. While his work often exhibits influences of the contemporary movements he encountered in France and ...

The Art Institute offers almost a million square feet to explore. Use the museum floor plan to help navigate a course for your visit. Planning your visit? Download our Visitor Guide (in English or ...

For over thirty years, Bill Viola has created single-channel videos as well as sound and video installations that focus on spirituality and explore multiple levels of human consciousness. In ...

Pietro della Vecchia Allegorical Scene with Father Time, n.d. Pietro della Vecchia Temptation of Saint Anthony, n.d. Pietro della Vecchia Saint Joseph with the Child Jesus in his Carpentry Shop, n.d.

The work of Giorgio de Chirico represents an unexpected form of classicism in early avant-garde painting. This canvas, one of six in a series, combines a Mediterranean cityscape with still-life ...

Bruce Nauman’s wildly influential, relentlessly imitated work explores the poetics of confusion, anxiety, boredom, entrapment, and failure. One of the artist’s most spectacular achievements to date, ...

The artist’s final painting, a dynamic and magical rumination on new life, is the latest addition to our Surrealism galleries. Exhibition curators Caitlin Haskell and Jordan Carter introduce artist ...

As a fundamental aspect of the Art Institute’s mission, our curators, researchers, and conservators produce scholarship of the highest quality on the objects in our collection. Integral to this ...

This female angel is one of many that Abbott Handerson Thayer painted during his career. Originally a painter of animals, Thayer created portraits and then ...