Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago is a very good fine art museum which is present in Illinois Grant Park in Chicago. It has the finest collection of Post-impressionist and Impressionist art in the permanent collection. There also notable collections of American Art, Old Master works, American and European Decorative arts, Modern Art, Asian Art as well as contemporary art. It is situated in 111, South Michigan Avenue in the Chicago.
The Museum is also associated with School of Art Institute in Chicago and is estimated by President and Director James Cuno. At 1 million Sq.feet, the museum is 2nd largest in US behind the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York. The collection of art works includes more than five thousand years of human expression from various cultures and traditions around the world. It has an art collection of more than 2, 60,000 works. The art institute also holds work which ranges from Japanese prints to latest updated American Art.
The museum also holds a huge collection of post-impressionist and Impressionist as well as American Paintings. There are more than thirty paintings by famous artist Claude Monet which includes the six of his Haystacks and also Water Lilies, which represent the post-impressionist collection. There are also many other important work such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir like Two Sisters on terrace and Paul Cezanne’s The Basket of Apples, and Madame Cezanne in Yellow Chair. In Moulin Rouge by the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is one more important artwork as well as the George Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on Island of La Grande Jatte, but Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street. There are many non-french paintings which include Vincent van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles and the self-portrait in the year 1887. The other significant works of American collection include Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks and grant wood’s American Gothic.
Apart from the paintings, the Art Institute provides many other works. Another important feature of the museum is Touch gallery that is designed especially for visually impaired. There are several works in the museum that the guests are encouraged to experience through touch sense rather than sight. Some of them include specially designed description plates which are written in Braille. It contains art pieces designed by Charles, Ray Fumes and Frank Lloyd Wright and. The Ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian galleries hold the mummy case of Paankhenamum and also silver and gold coins.