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Collection Updates

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The Art Institute is a dynamic organization—expanding its collection, improving gallery spaces, and lending works to institutions around the globe. To ensure that your visit meets your expectations, please read through these updates.

New Acquisitions

A work made of digital file.

Germane Barnes

A work made of layers of cotton, plain weave; pieced and quilted; appliquéd with wool and wool and cotton plain weaves and wool twill weaves; embroidered with cotton in chain, cross, and a derivative of herringbone stitches; applied plied yarn edging; lined with cotton plain weaves; pieced.

Mahdist peoples

Sculpture of a man's head in beige limestone, facing front. The nose is strong and angular, the lips closed and full, the ears flat at top, the hair textured and cropped short. The wide eyes are deeply carved.

Elizabeth Catlett

Black-and-white photograph of seven nude and muscular young men on a rocky bank beside water, some in the water, others reaching their legs down into it while seated, one standing on the craggy rocks.

Thomas Eakins

A mottled brown-orange sculpture of the upper torso and head of a young man with a far-off, almost sad gaze, short hair, and robed gar

Camille Claudel

A work made of gelatin silver prints (3).

Laura Aguilar

Highly detailed painting in mostly earth tones of a forested area that opens up at a small path to frame on all sides a light-blue body of water an a small sailboat, rolling mountains in the distance.

Julie Hart Beers

A work made of oil on panel.

William Holman Hunt

A work made of low-fire clay, underglazes, glazes, metal, gold leaf, luster, and glass.

Kukuli Velarde

A work made of oil on hardboard.

Malangatana Valente Ngwenya

A work made of bronze.

Sarah Bernhardt

A work made of porcelain.

China

A work made of sandstone.

Madhya Pradesh

A work made of hard paste porcelain and gilt bronze.

Jean-Claude Duplessis

A work made of linen, plain weave; cotton, wool and silk, plain and twill weaves, velvet and knitted strips forming “hooked” pile; edges with wool, single crochet.

Marguerite Zorach

A work made of acrylic, mixed papers, wood.

Suzanne Jackson

A work made of oil on canvas.

René Magritte

A carving in tan-and-white stone of the upper body of a pharaoh wearing an elaborate headdress.

Walter T. Bailey

Close-up view of the face of a medium brown–skinned man cupping his chin in his hand, his eyes closed. The brushstrokes are visible and his features are somewhat exaggerated and disproportionate. He is set against a light green background.

Jordan Casteel

A work made of oil on canvas.

Lilla Cabot Perry

A work made of brush and opaque watercolor, on linen prepared with a gray ground, mounted to cream laid paper.

Andrea del Verrocchio

Abstract painting on a white background featuring a black shape with red shadings, thick bands in red, winding drips in black and red, and a splattering of red paint drops.

Ed Clark

Abstract painting with light character etchings on a multicolored background of red, black, and white painted in loose patches that blend together.

Norman Lewis

A work made of resin and gold plate.

Ana De Orbegoso

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