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Established	1879; in nowadays location since 1893
Location	111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60603 USA
Coordinates	41°52′46″N 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°N 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389 Coordinates: 41°52′46″N 87°37′26″W  /  41.87944°N 87.62389°W  / 41.87944; -87.62389
Collection size	300,000 works
Visitors	one.79 million (2016)[1] 365,660 (2020) (drop due to COVID-19 pandemic closures)[2]
Manager	James Rondeau
Public transit access	CTA Bus routes: (6 and 28 line) 'L' and Subway stations: Adams-Wabash: Chocolate-brown Line Green Line Orange Line Pinkish Line Purple Line Monroe/State: Red Line Monroe/Dearborn: Blue Line Metra Train: Van Buren Street Station
Website	www.artic.edu

The Fine art Found 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 amidst visitors, the museum hosts approximately i.5 meg people annually.^[3] Its drove, stewarded past eleven curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such equally Georges Seurat'southward A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Former Guitarist, Edward Hopper'due south Nighthawks, and Grant Woods's American Gothic. Its permanent drove of nearly 300,000 works of fine art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cut-edge curatorial and scientific inquiry.

Every bit a enquiry institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and one of the largest art history and compages 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 synthetic for the World'due south Columbian Exposition. The most recent expansion, the Modernistic Wing designed by Renzo Piano, opened in 2009 and increased the museum'southward footprint to near one million foursquare feet, making information technology the 2nd-largest art museum in the United States, subsequently the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[iv] The Art Institute is associated with the School of the Art Found of Chicago, a leading art schoolhouse, making it one of the few remaining unified arts institutions in the United States.

In 2017, the Art Found received 1,619,316 visitors, and was the 35th most-visited fine art museum in the world.^[five] However, in 2020, due to the COVID-nineteen pandemic, the museum was closed 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 costless school with its ain fine art gallery. The organization was modeled subsequently European art academies, such as the Imperial University, with Academicians and Acquaintance Academicians. The University's charter was granted in March 1867.

Classes started in 1868, coming together every twenty-four hour period at a toll of $10 per calendar month. The Academy's success enabled information technology to build a new dwelling house for the school, a five-story stone building on 66 W Adams Street, which opened on Nov 22, 1870.

When the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the building in 1871 the Academy was thrown into debt. Attempts to go on despite the loss by using rented facilities failed. By 1878, the University was $10,000 in debt. Members tried to rescue the ailing establishment by making deals with local businessmen, before some finally abased it in 1879 to found a new organization, named the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. When the Chicago Academy of Blueprint went broke the same year, the new Chicago Academy of Fine Arts bought its avails at sale.

This 1893 sketch of the and then new Art Plant of Chicago shows most of today'south Grant Park notwithstanding 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 electric current Art Institute of Chicago and elected as its first president the banker and philanthropist Charles Fifty. Hutchinson, who "is arguably the unmarried most of import individual to have shaped the direction and fortunes of the Fine art Institute of Chicago".^{[seven] : five} Hutchinson was a director of many prominent Chicago organizations, including the University of Chicago,^[eight] and would transform the Fine art Institute into a world-grade museum during his presidency, which he held until his death in 1924.^[9] Besides in 1882, the system 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's headquarters, and a new add-on was synthetic backside it to provide gallery space and to house the schoolhouse's facilities.^{[7] : 19} By January 1885 the trustees recognized the need to provide boosted space for the organization'south growing collection, and to this cease purchased the vacant lot directly s on Michigan Avenue. The commercial edifice was demolished,^[10] and the noted architect John Wellborn Root was hired by Hutchinson to blueprint a building that would create an "impressive presence" on Michigan Artery,^{[7] : 22–23} and these facilities opened to great fanfare in 1887.^{[7] : 24}

With the annunciation of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1892–93, the Art Institute pressed for a building on the lakefront to be constructed for the off-white, but to be used by the Institute after. The city agreed, and the building was completed in time for the second year of the fair. Construction costs were met by selling the Michigan/Van Buren property. On October 31, 1893, the Establish moved into the new building. For the opening reception on December 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 board) the Logan Medal of the Arts, an laurels which became one of the most distinguished awards presented to artists in the Usa. Between 1959 and 1970, the institute was a key site in the battle to proceeds fine art and documentary photography a identify in galleries, under curator Hugh Edwards and his assistants.

As Director 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. Every bit "one of the well-nigh respected museum leaders in the country", every bit described past The New York Times, Wood created major exhibitions of works past Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh that gear up records for attendance at the museum. He retired from the museum in 2004.^[11]

The Found began construction of "The Modern Wing", an addition situated on the southwest corner of Columbus and Monroe in the early 21st century.^[12] The project, designed past Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano, was completed and officially opened to the public on May sixteen, 2009. The 264,000-square-pes (24,500 yard²) edifice improver fabricated the Art Institute the second-largest fine art museum in the The states. The building houses the museum's earth-renowned collections of 20th and 21st century art, specifically modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary 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 perhaps the largest gift of art in its history in 2015.^[fourteen] Collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson donated a "collection [that] is among the world's greatest groups of postwar Popular art ever 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 keep the donated work on display for at to the lowest degree fifty years.^[15] In June 2018, the museum received a $50 million donation, the largest single announced monetary donation in its history.^[16]

Collection [edit]

The collection of the Art Plant of Chicago encompasses more than v,000 years of human being expression from cultures around the world and contains more than than 300,000 works of fine art in 11 curatorial departments, ranging from early Japanese prints to the art of the Byzantine Empire to gimmicky American art. Information technology is principally known for ane 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 Constitute'southward African Art and Indian Art of the Americas collections are on display beyond two galleries in the southward cease of the Michigan Artery building. The African collection includes more than 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 collection brings together a wide array of objects that seek to illustrate the thematic and aesthetic focuses of fine art spanning the Americas.^[20]

American Art [edit]

The Art Institute's American Fine art collection contains some of the best-known works in the American canon, including Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, Grant Wood'southward American Gothic, and Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bathroom. The drove ranges from colonial silverish to mod and gimmicky paintings.

The museum purchased Nighthawks in 1942 for $3,000;^{[21] [22] [23]} its acquisition "launched" the painting into "immense pop recognition".^[24] Considered an "icon of American culture",^{[21] [25]} Nighthawks is mayhap Hopper's virtually famous painting, too as one of the nearly recognizable images in American art.^{[26] [27] [28]} Also well known, American Gothic has been in the museum'southward collection since 1930 and was just loaned outside of North America for the first time in 2016.^[29] Wood's painting depicts what has been called "the about famous couple in the world", a dour, rural-American, father and girl. It was entered into a contest at the Art Institute in 1930, and although not a favorite of some, it won a medal and was caused past the museum.^{[30] [31]}

Ancient and Byzantine [edit]

The Art Institute's ancient drove spans nearly 4,000 years of art and history, showcasing Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Egyptian sculpture, mosaics, pottery, jewelry, glass, and bronze as well as a robust and well-maintained collection of aboriginal coins. There are effectually 5,000 works in the collection, offer a comprehensive survey of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, beginning with the 3rd millennium B.C. and extending to the Byzantine Empire.^[32] The collection as well holds the mummy and mummy instance of Paankhenamun.^{[33] [34]}

Compages and Design [edit]

The Section of Architecture and Blueprint holds more than 140,000 works, from models to drawings from the 1870s to the present day. The collection covers landscape architecture, structural engineering, and industrial design, including the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.^[35]

Asian Art [edit]

The Art Institute'southward Asian collection spans virtually 5,000 years, including significant works and objects from China, Korea, Nippon, India, Southeast Asia, and the Near and Eye East. There are 35,000 objects in the collection, showcasing bronzes, ceramics, and jades likewise equally textiles, screens, woodcuts, and sculptures.^[36] One gallery in particular attempts to mimic the serenity and meditative style in which Japanese screens are traditionally viewed.

European Decorative Arts [edit]

The Art Institute's collection of European decorative arts includes some 25,000 objects of piece of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass, enamel, and ivory from 1100 A.D. to the present day. The section contains the ane,544 objects in the Arthur Rubloff Paperweight Collection and the 68 Thorne Miniature Rooms–a collection of miniaturized interiors of a i:12 scale showcasing American, European, and Asian architectural and piece of 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 ground flooring of the museum.

European Painting and Sculpture [edit]

The museum is nigh famous for its collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, widely regarded equally one of the finest collections outside of France.^[38] Highlights include more than thirty paintings by Claude Monet, including vi of his Haystacks and a number of Water Lilies. Also in the drove are of import works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir such every bit Two Sisters (On the Terrace), and Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy Day. Post-Impressionist works include Paul Cézanne's The Basket 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 as well inspired a musical and was famously featured in Ferris Bueller's 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 instance of his piece of work. Highlights of not-French paintings of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection include Vincent van Gogh'south Bedroom in Arles and Self-portrait, 1887.

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

The collection besides includes the Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor holdings, including the George F. Harding Drove of arms and armor,^[xl] and three centuries of Quondam Masters works.^[41]

Modern and Gimmicky Art [edit]

The museum's collection of modern and contemporary art was significantly augmented when collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson gifted 40 plus master works to the section in 2015.^[42] Pablo Picasso'due south Quondam Guitarist, Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River, Constantin Brâncuși's Golden Bird, and René Magritte's Time Transfixed are highlights of the modern galleries, located on the third floor of the Modern Fly.^[43] The gimmicky installation, located on the second floor, contains works past Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Cy Twombly, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, and other significant mod and contemporary artists.

Photography [edit]

The Art Institute didn't officially establish a photography collection until 1949, when Georgia O'Keeffe donated a meaning portion of the Alfred Stieglitz drove to the museum.^[44] Since so, the museum's collection has grown to approximately 20,000 works spanning the history of the artform from its inception in 1839 to the nowadays.

Prints and Drawings [edit]

The print and drawings collection began with a donation past Elizabeth Due south. Stickney of 460 works in 1887, and was organized into its ain department of the museum in 1911.^[45] Their holdings take later grown to 11,500 drawings and 60,000 prints, ranging from 15th-century works to gimmicky. The drove contains a stiff grouping of the works of Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, and James McNeill Whistler. Because works on newspaper are sensitive to low-cal and degrade quickly, the works are on display infrequently in social club to keep them in skillful condition for as long as possible.

Textiles [edit]

The Department of Textiles has more thirteen,000 textiles and 66,000 sample swatches in full, covering an array of cultures from 300 B.C. to the present. From English needlework to Japanese garments to American quilts, the collection presents a diverse grouping of objects, including gimmicky works and fiber art.^[46]

Architecture [edit]

Michigan Avenue entrance today

A postcard of the Fine art Plant dated 1907

The current building at 111 South Michigan Avenue is the third accost for the Fine art Establish. It was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston^[47] for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition as the World's Congress Auxiliary Building with the intent that the Art Institute occupy the infinite after the fair closed.

The Fine art Institute's famous western archway on Michigan Avenue is guarded by two bronze lion statues created by Edward Kemeys. The lions were unveiled on May 10, 1894, each weighing more than 2 tons. The sculptor gave them unofficial names: the south lion is "stands in an attitude of defiance", and the north lion is "on the prowl". When a Chicago sports team plays in the championships of their respective league (i.e. the Super Bowl or Stanley Cup Finals, not the entire playoffs), the lions are frequently 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 past the rock arch entrance to the sometime Chicago Stock Substitution. Designed past Louis Sullivan in 1894, the Exchange was torn down in 1972, but salvaged portions of the original trading room were brought to the Fine art Institute and reconstructed.

The Art Institute building has the unusual property of straddling open-air railroad tracks. Two stories of gallery space connect the east and due west buildings while the Metra Electric and South Shore lines operate below. The lower level of gallery space was formerly the windowless Gunsaulus hall, but is now dwelling house to the Alsdorf Galleries showcasing Indian, Southeast Asian and Himalayan Art. During renovation, windows facing north toward Millennium Park were added. The gallery infinite was designed past Renzo Piano in conjunction with his blueprint of the Modern Wing and features the aforementioned window screening used at that place to protect the fine art from straight sunlight. The upper level formerly held the modernistic European galleries, but was renovated in 2008 and at present features the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist galleries.

Libraries [edit]

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

Mod Fly [edit]

Art Plant of Chicago Mod Wing

On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history.^[48] The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 1000^two) addition, designed past Renzo Piano, makes the Art Found the second-largest museum in the US.^[4] The architect of record in the City of Chicago for this building was Interactive Blueprint.^[49] The Mod Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art, including Pablo Picasso'due south The Old Guitarist, Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River, and René Magritte's Time Transfixed. The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection of Surrealist art includes the largest public brandish of Joseph Cornell'southward works (37 boxes and collages).^[fifty] The Wing also houses contemporary art from after 1960; new photography, video media, architecture and pattern galleries including original renderings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Bruce Goff; temporary exhibition infinite; shops and classrooms; a buffet and a restaurant, Terzo Piano, that overlooks Millennium Park from its terrace.^[51] In add-on, the Nichols Bridgeway connects a sculpture garden on the roof of the new fly with the adjacent 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 drove [edit]

Note that other notable works are in the collection merely the following examples are ones in the public domain and for which pictures are available. In 2018, as it redesigned its website, the Art Establish released 52,438 of its public domain works, under the Artistic Commons Cypher (CC0) licence.^[53]

Paintings [edit]

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  Pablo Picasso, 1904, Adult female with a Helmet of Hair, gouache on tan woods pulp board

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  Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Football Player—Color Masses in the quaternary Dimension, 1915

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Sculptures [edit]

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  1 of the Thorne Miniature Rooms, c. 1930s

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  Pieces from the porcelain collection in the Art Institute of Chicago

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  Museum hall

Governance [edit]

Attendance [edit]

During 2009, attendance was around two meg—upwardly 33 percent from 2008—in add-on to a total of approximately 100,000 museum memberships. Despite a 25 percentage boost in museum access fees, the Modern Wing was a major goad for a rise in visitor traffic.^[54]

Finances [edit]

As of 2011, the Art Constitute continues to rebuild its $783 one thousand thousand endowment since the recession.^[55] In June 2008, its endowment was $827 one thousand thousand. Every bit of 2012, the museum is rated A1 by Moody's, its fifth-highest grade, in part reflecting the museum'south pension and retirement liabilities; Standard & Poor's rates the museum A+, fifth-all-time. In October 2012, the Fine art Plant sold about $100 million of taxable and revenue enhancement-exempt bonds partly to shore upwardly unfunded pension obligations.^[56]

The $294 million extension in 2009 was the culmination of a $385 million fundraising entrada—roughly $300 million for design and construction and $85 million for the endowment. Effectually $370 million were raised primarily from private patrons in Chicago.^[57] In 2011, the Fine art Institute received a $10 million souvenir from the Jaharis Family Foundation to renovate and expand galleries devoted to Greek, Roman and Byzantine art, also as to support acquisitions and special exhibitions of that art.^[58]

Acquisitions and deaccessioning [edit]

In 1990, the Art Institute of Chicago sold 11 works at auction, including paintings by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo and Edgar Degas, to enhance the $12 1000000 purchase cost of a statuary sculpture, Golden Bird, by Constantin Brâncuși. At the time, the sculpture was owned by the Arts Club of Chicago, which was selling information technology to buy a new gallery for its other works.^[59] In 2005, the museum sold two paintings past Marc Chagall and Auguste Renoir at Sotheby'southward.^[60] In 2011, information technology auctioned 2 Picassos (Sur 50'impériale traversant la Seine (1901) and Verre et pipe (1919)), Henri Matisse's Femme au fauteuil (1919), and Georges Braque'south Nature morte à la guitare (rideaux rouge) (1938) at Christie's in London.^{[61] [62]}

Directors [edit]

• William Chiliad.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)
• E. Laurence Chalmers (1972–1986)
• James Northward. Wood (1980–2004)
• James Cuno (2004–2011)
• Douglas Druick (2011–2016)
• James Rondeau (2016–present)

Controversy [edit]

Management of investments dispute [edit]

In 2002, the Art Constitute of Chicago filed suit alleging fraud by a small-scale Dallas firm chosen Integral Investment Management, along with related parties. The museum, which put $43 1000000 of its endowment into funds run by the defendants, claimed that it faced losses of up to ninety% on the investments after they soured.^[63]

Construction disputes [edit]

In 2010, the year after the opening of its massive Modernistic Wing, the Art Plant of Chicago sued the technology firm Ove Arup for $10 million over what it said were flaws in the physical floors and air-apportionment systems. The suit was settled out of court.^{[64] [65]}

Docent programme variety dispute [edit]

In 2021, the Fine art Institute ended its unpaid volunteer docents plan to motion to a paid model. The Chicago Tribune editorial folio criticized the Intitute'south letter of the alphabet announcing the change and the move to a new model, arguing that "[o]nce you cut through the blather, the alphabetic character basically said the museum had looked critically at its corps of docents, a group dominated by mostly (but non entirely) white, retired women with some time to spare, and constitute them wanting as a demographic."^[66] The Institute'due south director, Robert M. 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 intermission for the past fifteen months due to the COVID pandemic, and argued that the decision was not well-nigh anyone'due south identity, it was in keeping with changing modern museum practices around the world.^[67]

Following a volunteerism surge in the tardily 1940s, the programme had been created in 1961 to revitalize and expand "programming for children."^[68] Amidst other matters, since 2014 the program had been trying to concenter a more than diverse socioeconomic perspective set of fine art-bout guides, given the unpaid time delivery needed.^[69]

In popular culture [edit]

Director John Hughes included a sequence in the Fine art Found in his 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day 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 start visited the Institute every bit a "refuge" while in loftier schoolhouse. Hughes' commentary on the sequence was used as a reference point by journalist Hadley Freeman in a discussion of the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2011.^[71]

The paintings used in the 1970 Parker Brothers board game Masterpiece are works held in the Art Institute's drove.^{[72] [ non-chief source needed ]}

Run into also [edit]

• American Academy of Fine art
• Bessie Bennett, early 20th century Curator of Decorative Art
• Forest Idyll
• List of almost-visited museums in the U.s.a.
• List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago
• Alme Meyvis
• Visual arts of Chicago

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