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

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 ...

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

The Art Institute’s wide-ranging collection is a testament to thousands of years of human creativity and artistic ...

CHICAGO—The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce two exhibitions from The Horvitz Collection in October. French Neoclassical Paintings from the Horvitz Collection is on view from October 19 ...

Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s collection—from our renowned icons to lesser-known works from every corner of the globe—as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other ...

This painting by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli depicts 17th-century English poet John Milton, who became blind in his 40s, dictating his epic poem Paradise Lost. His daughter transcribes his words while ...

A lone peasant girl pauses her work to listen to a lark singing in the distance. Her emotional response to this moment of natural beauty is accentuated by the glow of the sun rising behind her, ...

The Child’s Bath is a tender portrayal of familial closeness, a subject that Mary Cassatt explored throughout her career. The caregiver’s cheek brushing the child’s shoulder, her encircling embrace, ...

The Art Institute acquired its first work by a black artist—Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Two Disciples at the Tomb—in 1906, the same year it was made. Since then, the museum has supported black artists, ...

Although French by birth and training, Nicolas Poussin spent most of his career in Rome, immersed in the study of ancient art, where he painted classically inspired works for an educated elite. His ...