Art, Architecture, and Design
Websites focusing on Illinois' vast array of local and world-class art, architecture, and design museums.
The Art Institute is one of the world's most famous art museums, particularly known for its collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by artists like Monet, Renoir, Seurat and Caillebotte. Favorite works (aside from the stone lions at the front entrance) include A Sunday Afternoon on La Grand Jatte––1884"" by Seurat
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Nestled on a 90-acre site in southern Illinois, Cedarhurst celebrates the arts year-round with exciting visual and performing arts programs for the public. Explore rolling meadows and woods, home to Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, the museum’s outdoor gallery with over 60 large-scale sculptures. Visit the Mitchell Museum with contemporary art exhibitions in two galleries, including the Children’s Gallery. Enjoy works by Mary Cassatt, Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam and more, part of the museum’s American painting collection acquired by founders John and Eleanor Mitchell.
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Founded in 1988, the Museum is dedicated to the Art of Design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial, and product design, graphics, and urban planning. The Museum's mission is the advancement of public education about the value of Good Design - from the spoon to the city"" - and how design can positively impact the human environment."
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The gallery presents diverse exhibitions throughout the year and maintains the university's permanent collection of art spanning the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries.
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Each exhibition calendar year, the museum presents a balance of deserving regional artists and important national shows. Known for having, as a significant piece in our collection, one of only three homes in the United States designed and built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, considered the father of modern architecture.
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The Museum and Art Galleries presents exhibits and oversees a collection of contemporary and modern art and craft and historical artifacts relevant to the life of General John A. Logan.
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Strengths of the Krannert permanent collection of 8,000 objects include: The Trees Collection of European and American Painting, Moore Collection of European and American Decorative Arts, The Olsen Collection of pre-Columbian Art, and examples of 20th Century Art collected during the Contemporary Arts Festivals (1948-1974). Additionally, focal points of the collection include a small but exquisite collection of Asian art, a growing collection of African art, and a large and important collection of works on paper, particularly a group of prints by WPA-artists and photographs by Edward Weston and others.
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The Martin D'Arcy Museum of Art is Loyola University Chicago's museum of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art. Situated on the north shore of Lake Michigan, the D'Arcy offers a unique environment in which to appreciate exceptional works of art. The growing and highly selective collection consists of over 500 exhibition pieces, including: Paintings by Bassano, Tintoretto, Guercino and Stomer, Italian, German and Flemish sculpture, French and Italian furniture and jewelry,
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Our permanent collection contains strong holdings of twentieth century sculpture, which are viewable on campus in our Sculpture Garden, and sixteenth to twenty-first century works on paper, which are regularly exhibited and accessible in the Museum's Print, Drawing, and Photography Study Center. The Museum offers diverse and thought-provoking special exhibitions, both in our multiple gallery spaces and in cyberspace, as well as a full palette of lectures, symposia, concerts, films, and publications. Standing at the crossroads of the realms of museums, academia, and lay audiences, the Block is a forum for the exchange of ideas amongst these important constituents in the study and appreciation of the visual arts.
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The MCA holds over 6,000 objects, works representing trends in art after 1945 in all media and genres: paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, film, installations, and artists' books. Among the greatest strengths of the MCA Collection are Surrealist works from the 1940s and 1950s, Minimalist works from the 1960s, conceptual art and photography from the 1960s to the present, and art by Chicago-based artists.
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The museum has over 1,000 works of art done by over 130 artists, mostly Americans, but also Australian, Cambodian, Thai, South Vietnamese and also work done by our former enemy, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. Collectively, the artists came from every conceivable war experience--infantry, naval, air crew, nurses, doctors, and prisoners of war. The artworks reflect their personal experiences. The collection includes paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures, poetry and prose, and artifacts.
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The Peace Museum is the first and only of its kind in the United States, exploring the imapact of war and peace through the arts. The unique and valuable collection consists of more than 10,000 artifacts including original paintings, sculptures, drawings, ribbon banners, posters, buttons, and lithographs. Exhibits focus on individual peacemakers and artists, the horrors of war, Central America, domestic violence, human rights, prisons, and women's leadership.
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Rockford Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, consisting of nearly 1,600 pieces acquired since 1913, is a varied one that focuses primarily on the key developments of 19th and 20th century art history which in turn reflect an era of unprecedented social change.
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The Smart Museum of Art and its adjacent Elden Sculpture Garden house over 7,000 works of art. From ancient Greek vases and Chinese bronzes to medieval sculpture and Old Master paintings; Frank Lloyd Wright furniture and Tiffany glass to modern sculpture by Degas, Matisse, and Rodin; and 20th—century paintings and sculpture by Mark Rothko, Arthur Dove, Diego Rivera, Henry Moore, and Richard Hunt, the permanent collection spans more than 5,000 years of artistic creation. It is presented in a series of displays integrating painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts and emphasizing art-historical context as well as content.
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The Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows is a permanent display of 150 stained glass windows housed in an 800-ft.-long series of galleries along the lower level terraces of Festival Hall. All of the windows were designed by prominent local, national and European studios and most were originally installed in Chicago area residential, commercial and religious buildings.
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The Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection encompasses over 700 important American works of art including paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculpture. Among the artists represented are Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, George Caleb Bingham, James A. McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. Also represented are twentieth-century artists such as Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Reginald Marsh, and Milton Avery. The collection is known for its strength in American Impressionism, including major works by Theodore Robinson, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Mary Cassatt, and others. Also noteworthy is a group of work by Maurice and Charles Prendergast.
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The University Museum has over 2,500 objects in its fine and decorative arts collections. Emphasis is on 20th century works by regional, national and international artists. The museum also has a science collection with over 26,000 geological specimens, and a humanities collection with over 22,000 artifacts that reflect history, world cultures, and the archaeological past.
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