Collection Updates

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.

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.

Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Mary Cassatt’s On a Balcony, 1878–79

Beauford Delaney’s Self-Portrait, 1944

El Greco’s The Assumption of the Virgin, 1577–79

Richard Hunt’s Hero Construction, 1958

René Magritte’s La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed), 1938

Joan Mitchell’s City Landscape, 1955

Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, Gray Weather, 1900, and Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882

Archibald Motley Jr.’s Nightlife, 1942

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Blue and Green Music, 1919–21 and Cow Skull with Calico Roses, 1931

Rembrandt van Rijn’s Young Woman at an Open Half-Door, 1645

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

Vincent van Gogh’s The Bedroom, 1889

Painting and Sculpture of Europe Gallery 223 is closed through February 7 for reinstallation.

Arts of the Americas Applied Arts of Europe galleries 231–234 are closed for renovation and expected to reopen by April 2025.

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.