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Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago : highlights of the collection

Title
Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago : highlights of the collection / selected by James Rondeau.
Author
Art Institute of Chicago, author.
Publication
  • Chicago, Illinois : Art Institute of Chicago, [2017]
  • New Haven ; London : Yale University Press.

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Additional Authors
Rondeau, James
Description
176 pages : color illustrations; 29 x 29 cm
Summary
"The Art Institute of Chicago houses an extraordinary collection of objects from diverse places, cultures, and time periods. This catalogue opens the doors of the museum to readers, presenting an expansive selection of painted works from around the globe, introduced insightfully by James Rondeau, president and director of the Art Institute. New color photography accompanies entries written by a team of curators, art historians, and educators, which put the works into context. The book showcases a dazzling range of paintings, including an Egyptian funerary stela, an ancient Mexican wall mural, Chinese scroll paintings, Japanese painted screens, and works by artists such as Caillebotte, Cassatt, El Greco, Gauguin, Homer, Hopper, Johns, Lichtenstein, Matisse, Mitsuoki, Monet, Morisot, Motley, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Pollock, Rembrandt, Richter, Rubens, Sargent, Seurat, Tiepolo, Turner, Van Gogh, Warhol, Whistler, and Wood; contemporary artists featured include Kerry James Marshall, Wanda Pimentel, and Kazuo Shiraga"--
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Genre/Form
Catalogs.
Note
  • Includes index.
Call Number
JQF 17-772
ISBN
  • 9780300225723
  • 0300225725
LCCN
2017003357
OCLC
961798185
Author
Art Institute of Chicago, author.
Title
Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago : highlights of the collection / selected by James Rondeau.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : Art Institute of Chicago, [2017]
Distributor
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Rondeau, James, curator.
Research Call Number
JQF 17-772
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