Art Institute of Chicago: The American Collection - Part 2of 2

Art Institute of Chicago: The American Collection - 2-Part Art History Series Hosted by Robert Kelleman

You’re invited to join us for a 2-part livestreamed art history series covering the fabulous American art collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of my favorite places.
The American galleries in Chicago feature one of the world’s top collections of American art, with works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Frederic Remington, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and more.
Out art history program will highlight “The American Experience”, including various aspects of Chicago history and culture.
During and after the program you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the art with your fellow participants via Zoom.

Part 1 of 2 - Early America, Antebellum & The Civil War America, and the Gilded Age.
Friday, January 23

Part 2 of 2 – Early Modern and Modern, including Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks.
Friday, January 30

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Art Institute of Art: The American Collection
YouTube Preview - Watch Before and/or After or Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e1VzMzT5Ow

Art Institute of Chicago - YouTube Previously Recorded Programs
Monet & Impressionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r0HPC5rSpI
Renoir & Impressionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBrB_y6s5XY

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The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. It is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago's Grant Park. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and 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 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 growth of the collection has warranted several additions to the museum's 1893 building, which was constructed for the World's Columbian Exposition. The most recent expansion, the Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano, opened in 2009 and increased the museum's footprint to nearly one million square feet, making it the second-largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art Institute 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.

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Your host for this program is Robert Kelleman, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations Texas History & Culture and Washington, DC History & Culture.

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