The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world’s largest, most comprehensive and most loved art museums. Home to the greatest Impressionist collection outside of Paris, the Art Institute also holds work by many of history’s greatest artists; highlights include Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, Henri Matisse’s Bathers by a River, René Magritte’s Time Transfixed, Mary Cassatt’s The Child’s Bath, and many others.
The Art Institute of Chicago also offers visitors a unique collection of works by celebrated artists from Chicago, such as Harry Callahan, H.C. Westermann, Ed Paschke, Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Leon Golub, Julia Fish, and others.
Highlighted Chicago architects include: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jeanne Gang, Dirk Lohan, Bertrand Goldberg, among others.
Contemporary masterpieces are on view in the spectacular Modern Wing.
Travel the globe through galleries devoted to the art of ancient Greece, Japan, Africa, and the Americas. View the much loved miniature Thorne Rooms, and more.
Advance ticket purchase is required for the public. Members do not need tickets.
Image: Francis Picabia, Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic), 1913. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Armand Bartos. © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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The Indonesian island of Java is the principal source of the brilliant textiles known as batiks. The terms batik derives from the Malay word meaning to draw with a broken dot or line and refers to the wax-resist process by which patterns are imposed on fabric. Many countries, especially in Asia, produce wax-resist textiles, but the Javanese have developed the most sophisticated method for executing the process. A liquefied wax compound is literally drawn on the surface of the cloth in order to keep either the pattern itself or the background areas from taking the dye. Each color thus requires separate application, leading to a multi-step production.
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