Monet Paintings Chicago Art Museum

This volume the first in the online series the impressionist circle at the art institute of chicago features forty seven works by monet entries on the paintings and drawings include new art historical research and unprecedented high resolution imaging that allows readers to zoom in to see the artist s brushstrokes as well as previously unpublished technical photography that unveils.

Monet paintings chicago art museum.

The art institute s holdings of late 19th century french art are among the largest and finest in the world and feature some of the most well known and well loved works in the museum. In 1903 the art institute became the first american museum to purchase one of monet s paintings and in the decades that followed the museum s collection grew thanks to generous gifts from several donors including annie coburn former two time chicago mayor carter harrison jr the searle family and others. Accompanying the exhibition of the same name this beautiful catalogue traces chicago s unique relationship with claude monet a relationship that began in 1903 when the art institute of chicago became the first american museum to buy a painting by the french impressionist. Of the art institute s 33 monet paintings just two were purchased by the museum.

Exhibition closed monet in the 90s. The works included here are highlights from our wide ranging collection. Monet paintings and drawings at the art institute of chicago. The flowers of monet at garfield park conservatory.

The series paintings may 19. The art institute of chicago was the first american museum to purchase a work by monet in the early 1900 s and has the largest collection outside of paris. Curator gloria groom of the art institute of chicago home to its. The rest were donated by local collectors starting in the 1920s.

The art institute of chicago gift of. Stacks of wheat end of summer 1890 91. The exhibit will run from sept. Exhibition closed impressionism fashion and modernity jun 25 sep 29 2013.

Discover art by van gogh picasso warhol more in the art institute s collection spanning 5 000 years of creativity. Exhibition closed 20 works by claude monet mar 18 mar 28 1895. Some argue that paintings made in the last decade of his life make monet as influential to modern art as he was to impressionism.