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Museum History
125 Years on Michigan Ave, Part 3: Filling the Walls and Halls—The Collectors

It all starts with collectors and their collections.

A painting heavy in blue and green hues of a cluster of light-skinned nude figures lying, sitting, and standing together outdoors with the suggestion of white fabric either being pulled on or taken off.

Inside the Exhibition
Paul Cezanne: The Artist’s Artist

Cezanne’s sensation-driven yet meticulous approach to painting largely defies theoretical explanation, and his works have long fascinated artists in particular.

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Perspectives
Projecting Fictions: Women in Art

The author explores how women depicted in works of art can seem both vividly present and hauntingly absent.

From the Collection
Dancing with the Collection

A dancer takes a tour of the galleries to find artworks the celebrate the body in motion.

Perspectives
A View from Below, Part Three

Black-and-white photograph shows an assortment of three paintings in a room, one hung on the wall, one on the floor, and one on a small table at right.

Inside the Exhibition
The First City: Chicago Collectors and Monet

Collectors in Chicago, along with the Art Institute, were early champions of radically new artwork by a French artist named Claude Monet.

A woman in a long striped dress baths a child using water in a small tub.

From the Curator
Cassatt’s Modern Vision of the Everyday: The Child’s Bath

Curator Annelise K. Madsen explores how Mary Cassatt created one of the era’s most recognizable icons.

New Acquisition
In Good Company: Theresa Bernstein’s The Milliners

Curator Annelise K. Madsen discusses a painting by an artist whose large, bold pictures drew uncommon attention when first displayed.

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Provenance Stories
Looted and Restituted: Matisse, Paul Rosenberg, and the Art Institute of Chicago

Follow the journey of Matisse’s painting Daisies from its theft by the Nazis to its permanent home in the Art Institute’s collection.

A painting in cool neutrals and warm beige of pedestrians on a large, industrial bridge, its criss-crossed metal beams spanning the canvas dramatically. At right, a man in a cap leans against the railing, absorbed in thought, peering down below with his face cupped in his hand. At left, a finely dressed couple—the man in a top hat, the woman carrying a parasol—walk across the bridge and toward the viewer. Beyond them are Paris streets and buildings, slightly hazy.

Inside the Exhibition
Gustave Caillebotte: A Man of Many Hats

A collector, gardener, sportsman, and more, the multifaceted Impressionist explored a wide variety of personal and professional pursuits in his life and in his art.

Painting of two haystacks in a field. Soft light falls on the triangular stacks, casting blueish shadows across the light-dappled pink, blue, and green fields.

Inside the Exhibition
Bertha Palmer and Sara Hallowell: Bringing Monet to Chicago

An art collector and her expert advisor—early admirers of Monet’s luminous paintings—made the city a destination for Impressionist art.

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