Jung Institute Of Chicago
With collections ranging from contemporary design and decorative arts to American art and works by the Old Masters, the Art Institute of Chicago is the United States’ second largest museum, behind New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Housing the one of the world’s most notable collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection, the museum was founded in 1879, prior to the Great Chicago Fire. It has been open in its current location on Michigan Avenue in The Loop neighbourhood since 1893.
History of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago has also been a school of art since its founding in 1879. Expanded on several occasions through the 1900s, the museum has continued to grow in both the size of the physical structure and the number of works in the permanent collection.
The museum is famously flanked by two bronze lion statues. These lions, designed by Edward L. Kemeys, are often decorated for holidays or other notable events in the city. When one of the various Chicago sports teams makes the playoffs, the lions can often be seen decked out in the team’s colours to show local support. In the Christmas season, the lions have green wreaths draped around their necks. The sculptor gave the lions unofficial names: “Stands in an Attitude of Defiance” for the north lion while the south lion is called, “On the Prowl.”
The east entrance to the museum features a stone arch entryway from the old Chicago Stock Exchange from 1894. The Exchange was demolished in 1974 and parts to the building were reconstructed and have since become a part of the museum.
The museum contains more than 260,000 works of art encompassing a 5000 year history. From the earliest examples of Japanese screen art to modern design, the museum is home to more than thirty paintings by Claude Monet in the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections.
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PARTICIPATE in an NEH Summer Program in 2010 The 21 seminars and institutes will address the following topics: • British Romanticism • Interwar Shanghai and Berlin
