The Art Institute is proud and honored to have partnered with the following corporations and foundations.

Sponsors strengthen and diversify their civic, national, and international image while helping the Art Institute meet the costs of making art from around the world accessible to the community.

Below is a select list of past sponsors:

Richard Misrach: On the Beach (2007)
David Yurman

Jeff Wall (2007)
LaSalle Bank
The Boeing Company

Toulouse Lautrec and Montmartre (2005)
Sara Lee Foundation

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South (2005)
The Boeing Company

Chicago Architecture: Ten Visions (2005)
Bank of America

American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh (2004)
LaSalle Bank

Seurat and the Making of "La Grande Jatte" (2004)
Northern Trust

Rembrandt’s Journey (2004)
Abbott Laboratories Fund
Merrill Lynch

Manet and the Sea (2003–2004)
J. P. Morgan Chase

A Century of Collecting: African American Art in The Art Institute of Chicago (2003)
The LaSalle Banks

The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (2002–2003)
Bank One Foundation

Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting (2002)
Boeing

Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South (2001–2002)
SBC

Taken by Design (2001)
LaSalle Bank

Beyond the Easel (2001)
Sara Lee Foundation

Skyscrapers: The New Millennium (2000–2001)
Julien J. Studley, Inc.

Pharoahs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen (2000)
Commonwealth Edison Company
Sara Lee Foundation

To Conserve a Legacy: Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (2000)
AT&T
Ford Motor Company

Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings 1948–1955 (1999)
Citibank
Salomon Smith Barney

Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective (1999)
LaSalle Bank

Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archeology of the Unknown Past (1998)
First Chicago NBD Corporation

Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (1998)
Marshall Field’s

Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman (1998)
Sara Lee Foundation

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1997)
Sara Lee Foundation

Degas: Beyond Impressionism (1997)
J.P. Morgan & Company Incorporated

Michelangelo and His Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle (1997)
Coopers & Lybrand

The Subject Is Music: Photographs from the Permanent Collection (1996)
Coopers & Lybrand

Current Sponsorship Opportunities