The Art Institute of Chicago

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The purposes for which the Art Institute of Chicago is formed are: to found, build, maintain, and operate museums, schools, libraries of art, and theaters; to provide support facilities in connection therewith; to conduct appropriate activities conducive to the artistic development of the region; and to conduct and participate in appropriate activities of national and international significance;

To form, conserve, research, publish, and exhibit a permanent collection of objects of art of all kinds; to present temporary exhibitions that include loaned objects of art of all kinds; and to cultivate and extend the arts by appropriate means;

To establish and conduct comprehensive programs of education, including presentation of visual artists, teachers of art, and designers; to provide educational services in written, spoken, and media formats;

To provide lectures, instruction, and entertainment, including dramatic, film, and musical performances of all kinds, which complement and further the general purposes of the institute;

To receive in trust property of all kinds and to exercise all necessary powers as trustee for such trust estates whose objects are related to the furtherance of the general purposes of the institute or for the establishment or maintenance of works of art.

represented artists

Charles Arnoldi      Richard Artschwager      Eugène Atget      Francis Bacon      Giovanni Baglione      Matthew Barney      Romare Bearden      Constantin Brancusi      Grisha Bruskin      Gustave Caillebotte      Rafael Canogar      Vija Celmins      Paul Cézanne      Joseph Cornell      Stephane Couturier      Stuart Davis      Edgar Degas      Rineke Dijkstra      Jacob El Hanani      Olafur Eliasson      Mitch Epstein      Alexandra Exter      Henri Fantin-Latour      Tony Feher      Joan Fontcuberta      Katharina Fritsch      Sam Gilliam      Felix Gonzalez-Torres      Arshile Gorky      Phillip Guston      Marsden Hartley      Eva Hesse      David Hockney      Winslow Homer      Edward Hopper      George Inness      Jasper Johns      Isaac Julien      Ellsworth Kelly      André Kertész      Byron Kim      Paul Klee      Guillermo Kuitca      Gaston Lachaise      Louise Lawler      Laura Letinsky      Roy Lichtenstein      Glenn Ligon      Robert Longo      Robert MacPherson      René Magritte      Mark Manders

Inigo Manglano-Ovalle      Sally Mann      Werner Mantz      Kerry James Marshall      Henri Matisse      Joel Meyerowitz      Amedeo Modigliani      Tina Modotti      Claude Monet      Berthe Morisot      Ed Moses      Edvard Munch      Vik Muniz      Elizabeth Murray      Elie Nadelman      Bruce Nauman      Carl Ostendarp      Ed Paschke      Pablo Picasso      Adrian Piper      Jackson Pollock      Pierre-Auguste Renoir      Gerhard Richter      Michal Rovner      John Singer Sargent      Georges Seurat      Paul Sharits      Raghubir Singh      Kiki Smith      Doug & Mike Starn      Frank Stella      Joel Sternfeld      Alfred Stieglitz      Paul Strand      Donald Sultan      Larry Sultan      John Szarkowski      Henri Toulouse-Lautrec      Kitagawa Utamaro      Ed van der Elsken      Vincent van Gogh      Georges Vantongerloo      Kara Walker      Jeff Wall      Andy Warhol      Carleton E. Watkins      Henry Wessel      Edward Weston      Grant Wood      Frank Lloyd Wright