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This publication is the first to explore the role of textiles in helping humans across cultures negotiate loss and grief.

This publication offers insights into Paul Cezanne’s unique methods and materials through richly detailed essays and cutting-edge technical reports. The fourteen paintings and watercolors span the artist’s career and his signature subjects: landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and bathers.

Renowned as the “master of the macabre,” Chicago native Ivan Albright is famous for richly detailed paintings of ghoulish subjects. This catalogue brings together fresh perspectives on the artist.

An in-depth exploration of the Art Institute’s important collection of James McNeill Whistler’s work, tracing the artist’s dramatic reception in Chicago.

This fully digitized edition of the award-winning catalogue raisonné offers a comprehensive look at James McNeill Whistler’s life, lithographic work, and creative context.

This digital publication shares and expands upon an exhibition of the same name dedicated to the work of pioneering artist Malangatana Ngwenya (1936–2011) with a focus on his oeuvre from the late 1950s until 1975, the year of Mozambique’s independence.

Expansive in its timeline and its range of media, this richly illustrated digital publication features more than one hundred works from the Art Institute’s collection of ancient Egyptian art.

This publication celebrates, and expands upon, the 2018 exhibition Never a Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950–1980, which presented the work of practitioners across the city who vividly captured the spirit of their communities.

This digital publication of groundbreaking conservation and research discoveries about Gustave Caillebotte’s remarkable and beloved painting Paris Street: Rainy Day includes interactive and layered high-resolution imaging, videos, and previously unpublished technical photography.

This publication highlights Henri Matisse’s paintings, drawings, and more in the Art Institute of Chicago’s collection. These extraordinary objects illuminate the stylistic and thematic paths that the artist explored, presenting a comprehensive view of his career.

Perspectives on Place explores the many ways in which materials, methodologies, and technologies make and define place through an expansive geographical, temporal, and theoretical range of artworks, sites, and subjects.

This catalogue is the most extensive investigation to date of the museum’s works from ancient Rome, and focuses on 165 significant objects from the collection.