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77-692: Ostertag is a German surname that may refer to the following people: Blanche Ostertag (1872–1915), American decorative artist Bob Ostertag (born 1957), American experimental sound artist, political activist and writer Greg Ostertag (born 1973), American basketball player Harold C. Ostertag (1896–1985), American politician Heiger Ostertag (born 1953), German novelist Molly Knox Ostertag (born 1991), American cartoonist and writer Robert von Ostertag (1864–1940), German veterinarian Sébastien Ostertag (born 1979), French team handball player [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

154-642: A 1:12 scale showcasing American, European, and Asian architectural and furniture styles from the Middle Ages to the 1930s (when the rooms were constructed). Both the paperweights and the Thorne Rooms are located on the ground floor of the museum. The museum is most famous for its collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, widely regarded as one of the finest collections outside of France. Highlights include more than 30 paintings by Claude Monet , including six of his Haystacks and

231-887: A background of buildings or the fine lines of 18-century cabinet-makers. She loved children and she lifted them out of the commercial into the artistic plane. Chicago Art Institute The Art Institute of Chicago , founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago 's Grant Park . Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, includes works such as Georges Seurat 's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte , Pablo Picasso 's The Old Guitarist , Edward Hopper 's Nighthawks , and Grant Wood 's American Gothic . Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art

308-453: A book; on one of the lily-pads a palpable fairyland creature has appeared, a fat frog wearing a golden crown. This is a symphony in sunny green and lemon yellow, with touches of faint lilac in the flowers and the mother's gown. The backgrounds were always architecturally sound. "Yankee Doodle" rides his pony through the quaintest of step-gabled streets and across a toll-bridge of the real old type. The pretty maid waits for Johnny to come home from

385-427: A calendar zinc-etched in colors. The pictures were about the size, shape, and style of tiles. Five-inch squares with romantic subjects heavily outlined and colored in flat washes. They had nothing to do with the seasons and the holidays beyond a certain feeling for the appropriate. Thus March was a knight-errant riding a white charger over bare brown hills; April was a green-mantled Elizabethan dame beating her way against

462-472: A contest at the Art Institute in 1930, and although not a favorite of some, it won a medal and was acquired by the museum. The Art Institute's ancient collection spans nearly 4,000 years of art and history, showcasing Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Egyptian sculpture, mosaics, pottery, jewelry, glass, and bronze and a robust and well-maintained collection of ancient coins. There are around 5,000 works in

539-476: A few leaflets sent across the ocean to la bonne Henriette in her cremerie certain rising French artists even wrote to America for more. Max Liebermann , the leader of the German Secession, praised them. Actually they were the turning-point for their creator from pictorial to decorative art. On them followed other calendars, other title - pages, other covers, and posters. One advertising a piano course

616-514: A longtime supporter. In 1990, the Art Institute of Chicago sold 11 works at auction, including paintings by Claude Monet , Pablo Picasso , Amedeo Modigliani , Maurice Utrillo and Edgar Degas , to raise the $ 12 million purchase price of a bronze sculpture, Golden Bird , by Constantin Brâncuși . At the time, the sculpture was owned by the Arts Club of Chicago , which was selling it to buy

693-425: A major renovation and expansion project for its facilities. As "one of the most respected museum leaders in the country", as described by The New York Times , Wood created major exhibitions of works by Paul Gauguin , Claude Monet , and Vincent van Gogh that set records for attendance at the museum. He retired from the museum in 2004. The institute began construction of "The Modern Wing", an addition situated on

770-595: A musical and was featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte—1884 , is prominently displayed. Additionally, Henri Matisse 's Bathers by a River , is an important example of his work. Highlights of non-French paintings of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection include Vincent van Gogh 's Bedroom in Arles and Self-portrait , 1887. In

847-459: A new gallery for its other works. In 2005, the museum sold two paintings by Marc Chagall and Auguste Renoir at Sotheby's . In 2011, it auctioned two Picassos ( Sur l'impériale traversant la Seine (1901) and Verre et pipe (1919)), Henri Matisse 's Femme au fauteuil (1919), and Georges Braque 's Nature morte à la guitare (rideaux rouge) (1938) at Christie's in London. In 2002,

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924-560: A number of Water Lilies . Also in the collection are important works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir such as Two Sisters (On the Terrace) , and Gustave Caillebotte 's Paris Street; Rainy Day . Post-Impressionist works include Paul Cézanne 's The Basket of Apples , and Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair. At the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is another highlight. The pointillist masterpiece, which also inspired

1001-454: A rare feeling for color. She loved costume; her pictures were constantly enriched with the interweavings of Persian embroideries, or the splendid pomegranates of Venetian brocade, or the often piquant and humorous plaids, dots, and stripes—for there can be humor in the truest art when the artist has a sense of humor. She loved architecture, so that balance and mass were in the very structure of her compositions, and she lost no chance of introducing

1078-610: A sculpture garden on the roof of the new wing with the adjacent Millennium Park to the north and a courtyard designed by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol. In 2009, the Modern Wing won at the Chicago Innovation Awards. Other notable works are in the collection but the following examples are ones in the public domain and for which pictures are available. In 2018, as it redesigned its website, the Art Institute released images of 52,438 of its public domain works, under

1155-447: A shower in a narrow street of half-timbered houses; July showed two lovers floating in a gondola past the marble steps of an Italian garden, the swain singing rapturously to his lute. And so on. No special Christmas or Valentine's Day or Fourth of July business. Perhaps the absence of these timeworn themes was welcome. Perhaps the public really recognized a fresh and individual touch. Anyhow that calendar had "an immense little success." From

1232-472: A sort of innocent drollery, what M. de Monvel called "a precious quality of naivete". Her illustrations for Max Müller 's "Memories," were stamped with unusual breadth and proportion. Not unnaturally, Ostertag was associated with some of the leading Western architects; with Frank Lloyd Wright , for instance, in a characteristic residence at Buena Park. From the spacious central hall one sees, through doorways to left and right, two remarkable fireplaces. That in

1309-520: Is associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , a leading art school, making it one of the few remaining unified arts institutions in the United States. In 1866, a group of 35 artists founded the Chicago Academy of Design in a studio on Dearborn Street, with the intent to run a free school with its own art gallery. The organization was modeled after European art academies, such as

1386-422: Is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present curatorial and scientific research. As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and Ryerson and Burnham Libraries , one of the nation's largest art history and architecture libraries. The museum's building

1463-727: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Blanche Ostertag Ostertag was born in St. Louis and became a resident of Chicago. She was born to a German father, Dr. Albert Ostertag from Württemberg , and Swiss mother, Annette Baudy. In Paris, she exhibited at both Salons, where she may have been the youngest contributor, and also showed pictures at several American exhibitions before she found her true vein of decorative work. She produced covers, calendars, and posters, which were in demand among collectors. She also designed some elaborate chimney-pieces carried out in glass and gold mosaic. Her later work and first essay in book illustration

1540-453: Is intended to increase space for 19th century, modern, and contemporary art. The design and placement of the new gallery or gallery building are yet to be decided. Located on the ground floor of the museum is the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries . The Libraries' collections cover all periods of art, but is most known for its extensive collection of 18th to 20th century architecture. It serves

1617-463: Is perhaps Hopper's most famous painting, and one of the most recognizable images in American art . Also well known, American Gothic has been in the museum's collection since 1930 and was only loaned outside of North America for the first time in 2016. Wood's painting depicts what has been called "the most famous couple in the world", a dour, rural-American, father and daughter. It was entered into

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1694-630: Is set in Chicago. During it, the characters are shown viewing A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte . Hughes had first visited the institute as a "refuge" while in high school. Hughes' commentary on the sequence was used as a reference point by journalist Hadley Freeman in a discussion of the Republican presidential primary candidates in 2011. The paintings used in the 1970 Parker Brothers board game Masterpiece are works held in

1771-457: The COVID-19 pandemic). It was ranked tenth among the most-visited museums in the United States , and was the sixth most-visited U.S. art museum. As of 2011, the Art Institute continues to rebuild its $ 783 million endowment since the recession . In June 2008, its endowment was $ 827 million. As of 2012, the museum is rated A1 by Moody's , its fifth-highest grade, in part reflecting

1848-510: The Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence. During 2009, attendance was around 2 million—up 33 percent from 2008—in addition to a total of approximately 100,000 museum memberships. Despite a 25 percent boost in museum admission fees, the Modern Wing was a major catalyst for a rise in visitor traffic. In 2022, the museum welcomed 1.04 million visitors, an increase of 20 percent from 2021, but still well below 2018 attendance (before

1925-620: The Manhattan District Attorney 's Office moved to seize Egon Schiele paintings from several museums on the grounds that they had been looted by the Nazis from Fritz Grünbaum , who was killed in the Holocaust . The paintings included, Russian War Prisoner, a watercolor in the Art Institute. The Art Institute continues to hold the work, as it is contesting the seizure in court. According to its investigation, it acquired

2002-548: The Metra Electric and South Shore lines operate below. The lower level of gallery space was formerly the windowless Gunsaulus hall, but is now home to the Alsdorf Galleries showcasing Indian, Southeast Asian and Himalayan Art. During renovation, windows facing north toward Millennium Park were added. The gallery space was designed by Renzo Piano in conjunction with his design of the Modern Wing and features

2079-591: The Royal Academy , with Academicians and Associate Academicians. The academy's charter was granted in March 1867. Classes started in 1868, meeting every day at a cost of $ 10 per month. The academy's success enabled it to build a new home for the school, a five-story stone building on 66 West Adams Street, which opened on November 22, 1870. When the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the building in 1871,

2156-474: The surname Ostertag . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ostertag&oldid=1120133372 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Surnames from nicknames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

2233-457: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition , as the World's Congress Auxiliary Building, with the intent that the Art Institute occupy the space after the close of the fair. The Art Institute's entrance on Michigan Avenue is guarded by two bronze lion statues created by Edward Kemeys . The lions were unveiled on May 10, 1894, each weighing more than two tons. The sculptor gave them unofficial names:

2310-415: The Art Institute of Chicago filed suit alleging fraud by a small Dallas firm called Integral Investment Management, along with related parties. The museum, which put $ 43 million of its endowment into funds run by the defendants, claimed that it faced losses of up to 90% on the investments after they soured. In 2010, the year after the opening of its massive Modern Wing, the Art Institute of Chicago sued

2387-475: The Art Institute the world's best museum. The museum received perhaps the largest gift of art in its history in 2015. Collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson donated a "collection [that] is among the world's greatest groups of postwar Pop art ever assembled". The donation includes works by Andy Warhol , Jasper Johns , Cy Twombly , Jeff Koons , Charles Ray , Richard Prince , Cindy Sherman , Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter . The museum agreed to keep

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2464-476: The academy was thrown into debt. Attempts to continue despite the loss by using rented facilities failed. By 1878, the academy was $ 10,000 in debt. Members tried to rescue the ailing institution by making deals with local businessmen, before some finally abandoned it in 1879 to found a new organization, named the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts . When the Chicago Academy of Design went bankrupt the same year,

2541-646: The art of the Byzantine Empire to contemporary American art. It is principally known for one of the United States' finest collection of paintings produced in Western culture. The Art Institute's African Art and Indian Art of the Americas collections are on display across two galleries in the south end of the Michigan Avenue building. The African collection includes more than 400 works that span

2618-495: The best-known works in the American canon, including Edward Hopper 's Nighthawks , Grant Wood 's American Gothic , and Mary Cassatt 's The Child's Bath . The collection ranges from colonial silver to modern and contemporary paintings. The museum purchased Nighthawks in 1942 for $ 3,000; its acquisition "launched" the painting into "immense popular recognition". Considered an "icon of American culture", Nighthawks

2695-572: The blather, the letter basically said the museum had looked critically at its corps of docents, a group dominated by mostly (but not entirely) white, retired women with some time to spare, and found them wanting as a demographic." The Chair of the Institute's Board of Trustees, Robert M. Levy, responded in a Tribune op-ed supporting the change, and described the Tribune 's editorial as having "numerous inaccuracies and mischaracterizations", noted that

2772-551: The board) the Logan Medal of the Arts , an award which became one of the most distinguished awards presented to artists in the U.S. Between 1959 and 1970, the institute was a key site in the battle to gain art and documentary photography a place in galleries, under curator Hugh Edwards and his assistants. As director of the museum starting in the early 1980s, James N. Wood conducted a major expansion of its collection and oversaw

2849-614: The building was completed in time for the second year of the fair. Construction costs were met by selling the Michigan/Van Buren property. On October 31, 1893, the institute moved into the new building. For the opening reception on December 8, 1893, Theodore Thomas and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed. From the early 1900s to the 1960s the school offered with the Logan Family (members of

2926-491: The collection, offering a comprehensive survey of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean world, beginning with the third millennium B.C. and extending to the Byzantine Empire . The collection also holds the mummy and mummy case of Paankhenamun. The Department of Architecture and Design holds more than 140,000 works, from models to drawings from the 1870s to the present day. The collection covers landscape architecture , structural engineering , and industrial design , including

3003-425: The color scheme. Among later, more serious work, there were portraits of children, and a series of watercolors setting forth the funny bashfulness or funnier dignity of children in a deep glow of color. In "When Love is Young", the lad in brown Holland and the blue-frocked lassie stand hand in hand on green turf gemmed with marigolds, and gaze out most seriously from a background of warm yellow leaves. Ostertag had

3080-405: The continent, highlighting ceramics, garments, masks, and jewelry. The Amerindian collection includes Native North American art and Mesoamerican and Andean works. From pottery to textiles, the collection brings together a wide array of objects that seek to illustrate the thematic and aesthetic focuses of art spanning the Americas. The Art Institute's American Art collection contains some of

3157-494: The court filing provided detailed evidence that provenance documents provided by the Swiss art dealer Eberhard Kornfeld contained forged signatures or were altered long after he came into possession of the paintings and sold them to other art dealers in the mid-1950s. Court hearings on the matter are expected in 2024. Director John Hughes included a sequence in the Art Institute in his 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off , which

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3234-467: The docent program had already been largely on pause for the past 15 months due to the COVID pandemic , and argued that the decision was not about anyone's identity, it was in keeping with changing modern museum practices around the world. Following a volunteerism surge in the late 1940s, the program had been created in 1961 to revitalize and expand "programming for children." Among other matters, since 2014

3311-500: The donated work on display for at least 50 years. In June 2018, the museum received a $ 50 million donation, the largest single announced unrestricted monetary donation in its history. A $ 75 million donation in 2024 is to go toward a new gallery. The collection of the Art Institute of Chicago encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world and contains more than 300,000 works of art in 11 curatorial departments, ranging from early Japanese prints to

3388-405: The drawing-room is carried out from her design in glass and gold mosaic— heavily hanging wistaria in creamy white shading to yellowish and greenish hues of opalescent glass on a band of burnished gold. One of its peculiarities is the clever use of a sort of gold crackle in the green leaves, simulating veins, and binding the whole together. The dining-room mantelpiece is painted on oak. The tablet over

3465-495: The endowment. Around $ 370 million were raised primarily from private patrons in Chicago. In 2011, the Art Institute received a $ 10 million gift from the Jaharis Family Foundation to renovate and expand galleries devoted to Greek, Roman and Byzantine art, and to support acquisitions and special exhibitions of that art. In 2016 the Art Institute received a $ 35 million gift from Dorothy Braude Edinburg,

3542-430: The engineering firm Ove Arup for $ 10 million over what it said were flaws in the concrete floors and air-circulation systems. The suit was settled out of court . In 2021, the Art Institute ended its unpaid volunteer docents program to move to a paid model. The Chicago Tribune editorial page criticized the Institute's letter announcing the change and the move to a new model, arguing that "[o]nce you cut through

3619-468: The fair" in front of a genuine Colonial mansion, buff and white, with a fan-light over its columned portico. Such chronological details were noted only as proving conscientious research even in childish matters. For the most part, the artist chose the early Victorian fashions—men in peg-top plaid trousers; women in crinolines, angel sleeves, lockets, and hair-nets; little girls in pig-tails and pantalettes. Here were delectable and varied decorations breathing

3696-466: The fireplace has some verses from the 143d Psalm in gold and colors set in a thick pattern of grapes. The side panels bear each a mediaeval lady in brocade carrying a dish of fruit, with the motto, "0 give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good." These vibrate with orange, blue, and green, the pigments laid on pure as the impressionists use it, and the natural golden brown of the wood cunningly planned as part of

3773-408: The history of the artform from its inception in 1839 to the present. The print and drawings collection began with a donation by Elizabeth S. Stickney of 460 works in 1887, and was organized into its own department of the museum in 1911. Their holdings have subsequently grown to 11,500 drawings and 60,000 prints, ranging from 15th-century works to contemporary. The collection contains a strong group of

3850-423: The illustrator; not as his pupil —he had no pupils— but from his untrammelled criticism and from watching him work. "He taught me the value of values," she said. Her knowledge of languages gave her an advantage over too many transatlantic pilgrims. Of mixed French and German parentage, she learned both languages from childhood. Speaking French like a native won her the interest of such diversely useful personages as

3927-476: The largest public display of Joseph Cornell 's works (37 boxes and collages). The Wing also houses contemporary art from after 1960; new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries including original renderings by Frank Lloyd Wright , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Bruce Goff ; temporary exhibition space; shops and classrooms; and a cafe. In addition, the Nichols Bridgeway connects

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4004-627: The mid-1930s, the Art Institute received a gift of over one hundred works of art from Annie Swan Coburn ("Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection"). The "Coburn Renoirs" became the core of the Art Institute's Impressionist painting collection. The collection also includes the Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor holdings, including the George F. Harding Collection of arms and armor, and three centuries of Old Masters works. The museum's collection of modern and contemporary art

4081-484: The museum is marked by the stone arch entrance to the old Chicago Stock Exchange . Designed by Louis Sullivan in 1894, the Exchange was demolished in 1972, but salvaged portions of the original trading room were brought to the Art Institute and reconstructed. The Art Institute building has the unusual property of straddling open-air railroad tracks. Two stories of gallery space connect the east and west buildings while

4158-472: The museum staff, college and university students, and is also open to the general public. The Friends of the Libraries, a support group for the Libraries, offers events and special tours for its members. On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history. The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m ) addition, designed by Renzo Piano , makes the Art Institute

4235-436: The museum's pension and retirement liabilities; Standard & Poor's rates the museum A+, fifth-best. In October 2012, the Art Institute sold about $ 100 million of taxable and tax-exempt bonds partly to shore-up unfunded pension obligations. The $ 294 million extension in 2009 was the culmination of a $ 385 million fundraising campaign—roughly $ 300 million for design and construction and $ 85 million for

4312-400: The new Chicago Academy of Fine Arts bought its assets at auction. In 1882, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts changed its name to the current Art Institute of Chicago and elected as its first president the banker and philanthropist Charles L. Hutchinson , who "is arguably the single most important individual to have shaped the direction and fortunes of the Art Institute of Chicago". Hutchinson

4389-423: The organization's headquarters, and a new addition was constructed behind it to provide gallery space and to house the school's facilities. By January 1885 the trustees recognized the need to provide additional space for the organization's growing collection, and to this end purchased the vacant lot directly south on Michigan Avenue. The commercial building was demolished, and the noted architect John Wellborn Root

4466-655: The painter Cazin and the maid-of-allwork Henriette the bonne, who looked after Ostertag, and wrote to her affectionately as "her Mademoiselle Blanche." From Paris, she went to Chicago. She took a studio, and exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute : Holland spinners, French boulevards, an occasional portrait, notable for tone and balance. These the critics praised and the public knew not of. Inevitably she experimented in many means of expression: etchings, monotypes, pastels. One of these went into Hamilton McCormick 's collection. Twelve small designs were included in

4543-494: The pink-striped wall-paper, the flowered tester and hangings, the rich red brown of the old mahogany furniture. As usual in Ostertag's pictures, the furniture was of correct design. Another calendar that took like wildfire displayed in a harmony of greens and chromes a small Velasquez-like princess with spreading hoop and parrot on fist. Still another shows a pale boy dreaming by the side of a lily-covered pond while his mother reads

4620-581: The present. From English needlework to Japanese garments to American quilts, the collection presents a diverse group of objects, including contemporary works and fiber art . The current building complex at 111 South Michigan Avenue is the third address for the Art Institute. Situated in Grant Park , it was designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge of Boston to host national and international meetings held in conjunction with

4697-520: The program had been trying to attract a more diverse socioeconomic perspective set of art-tour guides, given the unpaid time commitment needed. In 1996, heirs to Jewish art collectors Louise and Friedrich Gutmann , who died in Nazi concentration camps, sued museum trustee Daniel Searle for the return of the Edgar Degas painting, Landscape with Smokestacks . After years of litigation a settlement

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4774-526: The quiet and meditative way in which Japanese screens are traditionally viewed. The Art Institute's collection of European decorative arts includes some 25,000 objects of furniture, ceramics, metalwork, glass, enamel, and ivory from 1100 AD to the present day. The department contains the 1,544 objects in the Arthur Rubloff Paperweight Collection and the 68 Thorne Miniature Rooms –a collection of miniaturized interiors of

4851-460: The same window screening used there to protect the art from direct sunlight. The upper level formerly held the modern European galleries, but was renovated in 2008 and now features the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist galleries. In September 2024, the museum announced a gift of $ 75 million for a new gallery building or wing named for benefactors Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed. The gallery

4928-515: The second floor, contains works by Andy Warhol , Cindy Sherman , Cy Twombly , Jackson Pollock , Jasper Johns , and other significant modern and contemporary artists. The Art Institute did not officially establish a photography collection until 1949, when Georgia O'Keeffe donated a significant portion of the Alfred Stieglitz collection to the museum. Since then, the museum's collection has grown to approximately 20,000 works spanning

5005-584: The second-largest museum in the US. The architect of record in the City of Chicago for this building was Interactive Design. The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art, including Pablo Picasso 's The Old Guitarist , Henri Matisse 's Bathers by a River , and René Magritte 's Time Transfixed . The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection of Surrealist art includes

5082-516: The south lion is "stands in an attitude of defiance", and the north lion is "on the prowl". When a Chicago sports team plays in the championships of their respective league (i.e. the Super Bowl or Stanley Cup Finals, not the entire playoffs), the lions are frequently dressed in that team's uniform. Evergreen wreaths are placed around their necks during the Christmas season. The east entrance of

5159-681: The southwest corner of Columbus and Monroe in the early 21st century. The project, designed by Pritzker Prize –winning architect Renzo Piano , was completed and officially opened to the public on May 16, 2009. The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m ) building addition made the Art Institute the second-largest art museum in the United States. The building houses the museum's world-renowned collections of 20th and 21st century art, specifically modern European painting and sculpture, contemporary art, architecture and design, and photography. In its inaugural survey in 2014, travel review website and forum, Tripadvisor , reviewed millions of travelers' surveys and named

5236-521: The watercolor drawing in 1966 from an American art dealer through a proper provenance from Grünbaum's legal heir, and it also argues that the claim is time-barred because Grünbaum's heirs were aware. In February 2024, the Manhattan District Attorney filed a motion accusing the Art Institute of "blatantly ignoring evidence of an elaborate fraud undertaken to conceal that the artwork had been looted". According to The New York Times ,

5313-411: The works of Albrecht Dürer , Rembrandt van Rijn , Francisco Goya , and James McNeill Whistler . Because works on paper are sensitive to light and degrade quickly, the works are on display infrequently in order to keep them in good condition for as long as possible. The Department of Textiles has more than 13,000 textiles and 66,000 sample swatches in total, covering an array of cultures from 300 BC to

5390-489: The works of Frank Lloyd Wright , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , and Le Corbusier . The Art Institute's Asian collection spans nearly 5,000 years, including significant works and objects from China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, and the Near and Middle East. There are 35,000 objects in the collection, showcasing bronzes, ceramics, jades, textiles, screens, woodcuts, and sculptures. One gallery in particular attempts to mimic

5467-419: Was a charcoal drawing of a demurely attentive boy and girl. Another for a linen sale set forth, in an admirable combination of a few colors, a mother in a white morning robe buttoning her little girl's starched frock beside an open bureau drawer wherein piles of embroidered garments could be seen. The two dainty figures were in themselves winning, but gathered artistic force from the child's carroty tresses against

5544-469: Was a director of many prominent Chicago organizations, including the University of Chicago , and would transform the Art Institute into a world-class museum during his presidency, which he held until his death in 1924. Also in 1882, the organization purchased a lot on the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street for $ 45,000. The existing commercial building on that property was used for

5621-494: Was concluded which involved the acquisition of the painting by the Art Institute. A collection of approximately 500 objects from Nepal , India and elsewhere in Asia that was donated to the Art Institute by trustee Marilynn Alsdorf in 1989 was later found to contain several objects that were looted; nine objects have been returned by the museum to Nepal over the years, while some additional items are still being contested. In 2023,

5698-589: Was constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and, due to the growth of the collection, several additions have occurred since. The Modern Wing, designed by Renzo Piano , is the most recent expansion, and when it opened in 2009 it increased the museum's footprint to nearly one million square feet. This made it the second largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Art Institute

5775-462: Was hired by Hutchinson to design a building that would create an "impressive presence" on Michigan Avenue, and these facilities opened to great fanfare in 1887. With the announcement of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1892–93, the Art Institute pressed for a building on the lakefront to be constructed for the fair, but to be used by the institute afterwards. The city agreed, and

5852-418: Was significantly augmented when collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson gifted 40 plus master works to the department in 2015. Pablo Picasso 's Old Guitarist , Henri Matisse 's Bathers by a River , Constantin Brâncuși 's Golden Bird , and René Magritte 's Time Transfixed are highlights of the modern galleries, located on the third floor of the Modern Wing. The contemporary installation, located on

5929-764: Was “Old Songs for Young America," done in collaboration with the musician, Clarence Forsythe . Her droll and dainty decorations in delicate colors were quite frankly inspired by Boutet de Monvel ’s treatment of the nursery songs of France. She spent four years in Paris, after a brief month's preliminary study at the Saint Louis Art Museum . After a few weeks at the St. Louis Museum and a little supplementary study at home, Ostertag studied at Julien's and Delecluse's, summered in Dutch hamlets, and sketched, between times, many phases. She learned much from Jules Guerin ,

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