Collection Updates

Artworks occasionally go off view for imaging, treatment, preparation for Art Institute exhibitions, or loan to other institutions. If there is a particular artwork you’re hoping to see on your visit, please check our online collection to make sure it is currently on view.

Paul Cezanne’s The Bathers, 1899–1904

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, 1906; Water Lily Pond, 1900; and Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, 1900

Archibald Motley Jr.’s Nightlife, 1942

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–95

Galleries 136 and 137, featuring Indigenous arts of the Americas and arts of Africa, are currently closed for upcoming changes to our campus.

The majority of the Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor (all except Gallery 236) are closed through November 9 due to construction in adjacent galleries.

Arts of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Byzantium Gallery 152 will be closed Wednesday, November 5.

As we work over the next several years to evolve our campus to better serve our visitors and showcase our collection, you’ll notice some changes along the way.

Our fully reimagined galleries devoted to 16th–19th-century European design and elegantly designed by leading Spanish architects Barozzi Viega are now open. 

Galleries 136 and 137, featuring Indigenous arts of the Americas and arts of Africa, are now closed as we prepare to transform this space into the new Regenstein Hall, our main exhibition space. You’ll soon thereafter find works from these collections incorporated into other galleries in interesting ways.

• This fall, look for works of Indigenous art of the Americas to be incorporated into Gallery 161, paving the way for a full refresh and expansion of our arts of the Americas collection that fully integrates Indigenous arts of the Americas into the wide-ranging story of creativity on these continents.
• Beginning in September, keep an eye out for works of African art to be presented in dialogue with other collections throughout the campus
• Running October through January, internationally renowned Chicago artist Simone Leigh has curated a small presentation of African works in dialogue with modern and contemporary artworks in the Modern Wing.

In late December, with the opening of Bruce Goff: Material Worlds, Regenstein Hall will move to what had been galleries 136 and 137, near the spiral staircase.

The museum continually acquires new works by gift or by purchase that expand the stories that we tell in our galleries. Learn more about newly acquired works here.