Art Institute of Chicago: In-Person Tour with Optional Lunch After

Art Institute of Chicago: In-Person Tour - Impressionism & American Art Galleries - with Optional Lunch After
Saturday, August 8 - 11:15 am
Meeting Point: The Art Institute of Chicago - outside of the 2nd floor Impressionism galleries. Enter the Michigan Avenue entrance, go up the Woman’s Board Grand Staircase, and if you see Tiffany’s massive Hartwell Memorial Window you’re in the right spot. Look for your host Robert and a group of friendly people.

Event Details & Sign-Up:
https://www.meetup.com/chicagohistoryandculture/events/315773630/

Please note that this is an in-person event, not an online/virtual program over Zoom.

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Event Details ...

Cost: FREE for the museum tour but you must gain entry to the museum on your own, either by purchasing a ticket or through some other means.

Weather: This event indoors and will thus take place rain or shine. If it’s on our calendar then we’re proceeding as planned.

Before the Event: N/A

Meeting Point: The Art Institute of Chicago - outside of the 2nd floor Impressionism galleries. Enter the Michigan Avenue entrance, go up the Woman’s Board Grand Staircase, and if you see Tiffany’s massive Hartwell Memorial Window you’re in the right spot.

Please be at the museum when the doors open at 11:00 am so that you have time to purchase a ticket (there may be a line) and walk to the Impressionism Galleries.

Look for your hosts Robert (tall - wearing a purple oxford shirt, brown pants, and glasses) and a group of friendly people.

Late Arrivals: Catch-up to the group - see the Impressionism Galleries Sequence below.

Walking Distance: To be determined.

After the Event: Optional group lunch afterward at the museum café.

Impressionism Galleries Sequence (Subject to Change):
201, 222, 223, 225, 226, 201 (again), etc.

Additional Questions: Anything that can't be answered by the event description, Google, or common sense, please let us know.

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

Art Institute of Art: The American Collection
YouTube Preview - Watch Before and/or After Our 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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Chicago History & Culture
A non-profit community organization.
Experience the history and culture of Chicago - and the world!

YouTube Previously Recorded Programs:
http://www.Youtube.com/c/WashingtonDCHistoryCulture

We look forward to seeing you. Thanks!

Robert Kelleman
rkelleman@yahoo.com
202-821-6325 (text only)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkelleman/