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The Child’s Bath is a tender portrayal of familial closeness, a subject that Mary Cassatt explored throughout her career. The caregiver’s cheek brushing the child’s shoulder, her encircling embrace, ...

Robert Delaunay was four years old when the Eiffel Tower was erected in Paris in the public green space known as the Champ de Mars. One of many artists to depict the landmark, Delaunay did a series of ...

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This female angel is one of many that Abbott Handerson Thayer painted during his career. Originally a painter of animals, Thayer created portraits and then ...

Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) published by Forty/Ninety Inc. printed by Noblet Serigraphie Inc. in collaboration with Jean-Yves Noblet and Alene Jackson ...

Pablo Picasso made The Old Guitarist while working in Barcelona. In the paintings of his Blue Period (1901-04), the artist restricted himself to a cold, monochromatic blue palette, flattened forms, ...

Let your imagination take over on this journey through the Thorne Rooms—miniature and, as generations of Art Institute visitors have found, wonderfully transporting. Narcissa Niblack Thorne, the ...

Maria Elena Vieira da Silva. Composition, 1936/37. Bequest of Maxine Kunstadter.

This classical subject tells the cautionary tale of the sculptor Perillus, who offered to make a bronze bull in which the tyrant Phalaris could roast his enemies. Perillus was rewarded by being the ...

This sculpture by Chauncey Bradley Ives presents a character from the Old Testament book of Judges. An Israelite leader engaged in war against the Ammonites, Jephtha made a promise to God that if his ...

Theo van Doesburg, (Christian Emil Marie Küpper), Theo van Doesburg, (Christiaaen Emil Marie Kupper), Christian Emil Marie Küpper, Theo Van Doesburg, I. K. Bonset ...