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

Art Institute of Chicago: In-Person Tour with Optional Lunch After - Hosted by Robert Kelleman Let's visit the Impressionism and American galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of my favorite places, for a guided, in-person tour, followed by an optional lunch afterwards in the museum cafe. The tour itself is free, you'll just need to pay for your museum admission and lunch. Please note that this is an in-person event, not an online/virtual program over Zoom. Additional details including the specific meeting point when we get closer to the event date. 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=PBrBy6s5XY 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. 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. 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/