Best Art Museum In Chicago - April 2024

Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago's George F. Harding Collection of arms and armor is one of the most popular exhibits in the museum, as well as one of the greatest collections of arms and armor in North America. Now, for the first time, these renowned treasures are presented in this handsome volume celebrating the richness of a lost art.This book is a visual delight, with numerous examples of full and half armors, finely etched helmets, firearms with carved ivory stocks, back- and breastplates with gilded figures, and other exotic items all reproduced in full color. Additionally , paintings by suc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0821222058
• ASIN: 0821222058
• ISBN: 0821222058
• Brand: Brand: Bulfinch Press
• Manufacturer: Bulfinch Press

Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago

Presents 149 of the Art Institute's treasured European and American paintings, from the Renaissance to the 1990s, with each work reproduced in full colour and accompanied by a short, engaging text. This title also features a sampling of the museum's world-renowned collection of French Impressionist paintings.

• ASIN: 0300151039
• ASIN: 0300151039
• ISBN: 0300151039
• Manufacturer: Art Institute of Chicago

Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Thorne Rooms, sixty-eight miniature models of European interiors from the 16th century on and American furnishings from the 17th century on, have entranced generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago. This charming book showcases these rooms, featuring full-color views of each one as well as eight two-page spreads of some of the most spectacular interiors.  The introductory essay by Bruce Hatton Boyer chronicles how Chicago socialite Mrs. James Ward Thorne conceived the rooms. They were made between 1934 and 1940 by a number of skilled craftsmen according to her exacting speci... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300141599
• UPC: 884933886852
• ASIN: 0300141599
• ISBN: 0300141599
• Manufacturer: Art Institute of Chicago

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone-many times a professional photographer-carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photographs were often made into postcards and sold as souvenirs to the crowds in attendance. These images are some of photography's most brutal, surviving to this day so that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0944092691
• ASIN: 0944092691
• ISBN: 0944092691
• Brand: Brand: Twin Palms Publishers
• Manufacturer: Twin Palms Publishers

111 Places in Los Angeles That You Must Not Miss Updated and Revised (111 Places in .... That You Must Not Miss)

Go beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood to discover the quirky culture of The City of AngelsPart of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 150 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide"In Los Angeles, everyone is a star." - Denzel WashingtonAdventures beckon!For more than a century, seekers of sun and celebrity from around the world have flocked to this sprawling metropolis on the Pacific, which Dorothy Parker once described as "72 suburbs in search of a city." But beyond the red-carpet reputation and Tinseltown trappings is a west coast wonderland teeming with unexp... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3954518848
• ASIN: 3954518848
• ISBN: 3954518848
• Brand: Emons Publishers
• Manufacturer: Emons Publishers

Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America

An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300229933
• ASIN: 0300229933
• ISBN: 0300229933
• Manufacturer: Chicago Art Deco Society

Fodor's Chicago (Full-color Travel Guide)

Written by locals, Fodor’s Chicago is the perfect guidebook for those looking for insider tips to make the most out their visit. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this Chicago travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease.Fodor's Chicago is the perfect companion for a trip to this quintessential American city. With colorful features and the most updated information, Fodor's Chicago gets straight to the best of what the "Second City" has to offer, everything from art and architecture to shopping, baseball, jazz, and the very best deep-dish pizza. Our in-depth coverag... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07MMZQ45J
• ASIN: B07MMZQ45J
• Manufacturer: Fodor's Travel

Edward Hopper: The Art and The Artist

This sumptuous book presents the full range of Edward Hopper's work and offers greater access to Edward Hopper, the man, than any other single volume. Hopper is generally considered the major twentieth-century realist. Such paintings as House by the Railroad, Early Sunday Morning, and Nighthawks seem to embody the very character of our time. Yet few people have penetrated the mask of Hopper's public image. Here, Gail Levin has gone beyond the standard evaluations of the man and his work to investigate the authentic identity of the artist and the way his personality informed his art. She has un... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393315770
• ASIN: 0393315770
• ISBN: 0393315770
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Hieronymus Bosch. Complete Works

In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Alon... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3836526298
• ASIN: 3836526298
• ISBN: 9783836526296
• Brand: Fischer Stefan
• Manufacturer: TASCHEN

O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection

The first exploration of the art that Georgia O'Keeffe retained for her personal collection, including works that have never been publicly exhibited. Georgia O'Keeffe was one of America's preeminent artists and one of the first to experiment with abstract form, though she never abandoned her deep response to and observation of nature. An enormously popular artist, she became identified and respected as an independent American spirit through both her art and her life. At the time of her death in 1986, Georgia O'Keeffe owned more than half of the approximately 2,000 works she had produced during... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0500092990
• ASIN: 0500092990
• ISBN: 0500092990
• Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson

100 Years of Architecture in Chicago: Continuity of Structure and Form : Exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Book by Grube, Oswald W.

• ASIN: 0695808370
• ASIN: 0695808370
• ISBN: 0695808370
• Brand: Brand: Wilcox n Follett Book Co
• Manufacturer: Wilcox & Follett Book Co

Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Hudson River School paintings are among America’s most admired and well-loved artworks. Such artists as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Albert Bierstadt left a powerful legacy to American art, embodying in their epic works the reverence for nature and the national idealism that prevailed during the middle of the nineteenth century. This book features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, recognized as the most extensive and finest in the world.Gorgeously and amply illustrated, the book includes paintings by all the majo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300101163
• UPC: 884160360156
• ASIN: 0300101163
• ISBN: 9780300101164
• Manufacturer: Yale University Press

American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955

The first publication to focus on the Art Institute’s outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorative-art objects, and works on paper made in North America between World War II and 1955. Together they fully reflect the history of American art in these decades, including examples of early modernism, Social Realism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. Among the paintings are such iconic works as Hopper’s Nighthawks and Wood’s American Gothic, along with notable pieces by Davis, De Kooning, Hartley, Lawrence, Marin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300117388
• ASIN: 0300117388
• ISBN: 0300117388
• Manufacturer: Art Institute of Chicago

Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines" (American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum S)

The “Wu Family Shrines,” one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and mythological subjects, these famous carved and engraved reliefs may have been intended to reflect such basic themes as loyalty to the emperor, filial piety, and wifely devotion; centuries later, they vividly bring to life the art, social conditions, and Confucian ideology of the Eastern Han.This generously illustrated book examines the stone slabs and t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300107978
• ASIN: 0300107978
• ISBN: 0300107978
• Manufacturer: Other Distribution

Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

• ASIN: 0300098804
• ASIN: 0300098804
• ISBN: 0300098804
• Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Elevated view of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, USA Print Wall Art

Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery

• UPC: 391496128
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 12" x 8"12 x 8

Museum of Science and Industry Vehicles - Chicago, IL Print Wall Art By Lantern Press

Art PrintThis art print displays sharp, vivid images with a high degree of color accuracy on paper similar to that of a postcard or greeting card. A member of the versatile family of art prints,

• UPC: 560060407
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24

Soldier Field and Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois Print Wall Art

Art PrintThis art print displays sharp, vivid images with a high degree of color accuracy on paper similar to that of a postcard or greeting card. A member of the versatile family of art prints,

• UPC: 548092077
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 16 x 1216" x 12"

Aerial View of the Field Museum and Soldier Field, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Usa Print Wall Art By Green Light Collection

Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery

• UPC: 110871925
• Color: MulticolorGreen
• Size: 36 x 2436" x 24"

Facade of Chicago Museum of Science Print Wall Art

Photographic PrintThis photographic print is digitally printed on archival photographic paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery

• UPC: 585093646
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 30" x 30"30 x 30

Chicago, Illinois - Museum of Science and Industry Technical - Lantern Press Artwork (9x12 Art Print, Wall Decor Travel Poster)

High-quality art print.Printed on heavy stock paper100% Made in America.Paper size measures 9 x 12 inchesImage size of 7 3/4 x 11 5/8

• UPC: 196835568
• Model: LANT-31389-9x12
• Color: MulticolorMulti
• Size: 9 x 12

Bronze lion statue in front of a museum Art Institute Of Chicago Chicago Cook County Illinois USA Stretched Canvas - Panoramic Images (36 x 12)

Stretched Canvas Wall Art for your Home or Office. Bronze lion statue in front of a museum, Art Institute Of Chicago, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA was carefully reproduced on only the finest Canvas which

• UPC: 586576021
• Model: SCAPPI121564L
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 36 x 12

Lions statue in front of a museum Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA Stretched Canvas - (18 x 24)

Stretched Canvas Wall Art for your Home or Office. Lion's statue in front of a museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA was carefully reproduced on only the finest Canvas which beautifully details the

• UPC: 819263851
• Model: SCASAL25545082
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 18 x 24

Museum of Science and Industry Vehicles - Chicago, IL Stretched Canvas Print Wall Art By Lantern Press

This stretched canvas print is the result of sophisticated digital printing technology in which the image is printed directly onto an artist-grade, 100% cotton canvas. The canvas is then expertly stretched around 1.5" wooden bars

• UPC: 494552753
• Color: Multicolor
• Size: 10" x 14.5"10 x 14

Museum of Science and Industry Vehicles - Chicago, IL Framed Print Wall Art By Lantern Press

Art PrintThis art print displays sharp, vivid images with a high degree of color accuracy on paper similar to that of a postcard or greeting card. A member of the versatile family of art prints,

• UPC: 497008234
• Color: BrownPecan
• Size: 18" x 24"18 x 24