Tag: AIC

La Natività (1500-1505)

Perugino (c.1446-1523) La Natività (The Nativity) 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 26.2 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond, most famously through his…

Cristo e la donna di Samaria (1500-1505)

Perugino (c.1446-1523) Cristo e la donna di Samaria (Christ and the Woman of Samaria) 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 27.3 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region…

Il battesimo di Cristo (1500–1505)

Perugino (c.1446-1523) Il battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 27.3 × 46.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond,…

Sky above Clouds IV (1965)

O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Sky above Clouds IV 1965 Oil on canvas, 243.8 × 731.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Painted in the summer of 1965, when Georgia O’Keeffe was 77 years old, this monumental work culminates a series inspired by…

Georgia O’Keeffe

(1887–1986) Georgia Totto O’Keeffe The artist’s works: Black Spot No. 3 1919 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Lake George Reflection c.1921–1922 Private collection Pink Spirea c.1922 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Dark Abstraction 1924 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Fall Maple…

Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune (1888-1890)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne au fauteuil jaune (Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 80.9 × 64.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This portrait is one in a series of four Paul Cézanne made of his…

Femme allongée (1922)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Femme allongée (Reclining Woman) 1922 Oil on canvas, 64.5 × 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Fernand Léger first saw the work of the Cubists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the Paris gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.…

Retrato de Marevna (c.1915)

Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) Retrato de Marevna (Portrait of Marevna) c.1915 Oil on canvas, 145.7 × 112.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Early in his career, Diego Rivera enjoyed a brief but sparkling period as a Cubist painter. After years of…

La Lecture interrompue (c.1870)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Lecture interrompue (Interrupted Reading) c.1870 Oil on canvas mounted on board, 92.5 × 65.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Interrupted Reading is among the most compelling of Camille Corot’s late figure paintings. Corot almost never exhibited…