Natalia Goncharova first painted the subject of the Spanish dancer in 1916, while touring Spain as a set and costume designer with Sergei Diaghilev’s traveling ballet company, the Ballets Russes. In ...

Join us for a conversation on Neoclassical art from the French Revolution to learn why, during a period of Enlightenment ...

White Crucifixion is the first in Marc Chagall’s series of compositions that feature Jesus as a Jewish martyr and dramatically call attention to the persecution and suffering of Jews in 1930s Germany ...

The Archives comprises four primary collections or categories of service, including: the Institutional Archives, the Institutional Photography Archive, the Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture ...

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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1730 ...

In 1893, three years after buying property at Giverny, Claude Monet began transforming the marshy ground behind his home into a pond, on the narrow end of which he built a Japanese-style wood bridge.

Beginning in 1917, Henri Matisse spent most winters in Nice, on the Mediterranean coast. He often stayed at the Hôtel Mediterranée, a Rococo-style building he later fondly termed “faked, absurd, ...

In the first two decades of the 20th century, Henri Matisse visited exhibitions of Islamic art and traveled to Algeria and Morocco, where he collected pottery, textiles, and tiles. Years later while ...

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Maria Elena Vieira da Silva. Composition, 1936/37. Bequest of Maxine Kunstadter.

Focusing on progressive thinking and practice across all design disciplines, the Art Institute’s Department of Architecture and Design comprises more than 250,000 objects dating from the 1870s to the ...