Artists

Gustave Caillebotte

Impressionist painter of modern Parisian life

Gustave Caillebotte was a French painter and art patron. His Paris Street; Rainy Day is one of the most iconic works at the Art Institute of Chicago.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Post-Impressionist chronicler of Parisian nightlife

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

El Greco

Greek-born master of Spanish Renaissance painting

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) was a Greek painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. His dramatic and expressionistic style was considered bizarre by contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century.

7 works · 1 exhibitions & events

Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch Golden Age master of light and shadow

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art.

8 works

James McNeill Whistler

American-born painter of tonal harmonies

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American artist active during the Gilded Age. He was averse to sentimentality in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo 'art for art's sake'.

8 works · 1 exhibitions & events

John Singer Sargent

Leading portrait painter of his generation

John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Winslow Homer

American landscape painter and printmaker

Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. Considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Grant Wood

American Regionalist painter of the rural Midwest

Grant Wood was an American painter best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly American Gothic, one of the most recognized images in 20th-century American art.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Berthe Morisot

First woman to join the Impressionist movement

Berthe Morisot was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy as one of the three great ladies of Impressionism.

7 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Camille Pissarro

Dean of the Impressionist painters

Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter. He was the only artist to exhibit at all eight Impressionist exhibitions.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Georges Seurat

Pioneer of Neo-Impressionism and Pointillism

Georges Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. His masterpiece, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, is at the Art Institute of Chicago.

8 works · 1 exhibitions & events

Paul Gauguin

Post-Impressionist painter of exotic and primitive subjects

Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. He is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Paul Cézanne

Father of modern art

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Edgar Degas

Master of movement, light, and the human figure

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings of ballet dancers. He also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Leading painter of the Impressionist style

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. He celebrated beauty and the sensuality of the human form.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Mary Cassatt

American Impressionist painter of modern women and children

Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker who lived much of her adult life in France. She was one of only three women — and the only American — to exhibit with the French Impressionists.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Edward Hopper

American realist painter of urban and rural scenes

Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. His most famous work, Nighthawks, is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.

8 works · 2 exhibitions & events

Georgia O'Keeffe

Mother of American Modernism

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes.

3 works · 2 exhibitions & events