Art Institute of Chicago

The museum is curated by James Kuno. The museum is famous for its extensive collection of impressionists and American art. It is located on the western edge of Grant Park, in a building designed by the company Shapley, Rutan and Coolidge (1892).

The Art Institute of Chicago building was originally built for the 1893 Columbia World Exhibition as an ancillary building for the World Congress to be transferred to the Art Institute after the exhibition closes.

• Masterpieces Collection
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  Grant Wood . " American Gothic ."

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  Georges Seurat . " Sunday at Grand Jatt Island ."

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  Vincent van Gogh . " Bedroom in Arles ."

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  Gustave Caillebotte . " Parisian street in rainy weather "

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  Vincent van Gogh . " Self portrait "

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  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . " In the Moulin Rouge "

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  Pierre Auguste Renoir . “Two Sisters” (“On the Terrace”) .

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  John Simpson Captive Slave

The Chicago Institute of the Arts is one of the oldest US universities, founded in 1866 by a group of 35 artists and was originally called the Chicago Academy of Design . The charter of the academy was adopted in 1867. Classes in it began in 1868. When the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the Academy building, it temporarily fell into disrepair, earning large debts. In 1879, a new organization was created in Chicago - the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts , which bought the debts of the Chicago Academy of Design at an auction.

In 1882, the Academy changed its name to the current Art Institute of Chicago . Its first president was the American banker and philanthropist Charles Hutchinson , who held this post until his death in 1924.

The Institute educates more than 3200 students and offers classes in such specialties as art and technology, computer animation, the art of management; art history, theory and criticism, art education and art therapy; ceramics; clothing design; cinema; preservation of historical heritage, architecture, interior architecture; journalism painting and graphics; the photo; printmaking, sculpture, sound, video, visual communications, visual and critical studies and literary creation. The Institute also serves as a basis for resolving issues related to the development and position of the arts in modern society.

U.S. Most Influential School of the Arts

In a survey conducted as part of Columbia University's national arts journalism program, American art historians called the Chicago Institute of the Arts the most influential art institution at the national level ^[2] .

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