Art Institute of Chicago
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The Art Institute of Chicago is a private, nonprofit art museum in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
The Art Institute of Chicago seen from Michigan Avenue
What is believed to be the oldest image of the Art Institute taken in 1890, and published in the Detroit Catalogue J. in 1901.
Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath, 1891–92
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, 1942
Impressionism
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Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterised by visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, unus
Impression, Sunrise, an 1872 Claude Monet oil on canvas painting now housed at Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. This painting became the source of the movement's name after Louis Leroy's 1874 article, "The Exhibition of the Impressionists", satirically implied that the painting was, at most, a sketch.
J. M. W. Turner's atmospheric work was influential on the birth of Impressionism, here The Fighting Temeraire (1839).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876), Musée d'Orsay, one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.
Catalogue cover from the First Impressionist Exhibition (1874)