December 15, 2015 - June 18, 2016 This exhibition acknowledges and honors past achievements of this dynamic group of museum devotees.  Among the featured works are Berenice Abbott’s New York at Night, Robert Frank’s Belle Isle Detroit, Erich Heckel‘s Die Brucke poster, Edvard Munch’s Lovers, Charles Burchfield’s In the Parlor, Helen Frankenthaler’...

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December 19, 2015 - July 31, 2016 - The prints in this exhibition, by Daumier and his fellow La Caricature artists J. J. Grandville and Charles Traviès, feature comic portraits of French political figures of the early 1830s based on the Celebrities of the Juste-Milieu sculptures.  

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December 22, 2015 - December 4, 2016 - This exhibition features a selection of recent acquisitions to El Museo’s permanent collection. It includes our most recent gift, a large painting by David Antonio Cruz, Puerto Rican Pieta, a portrait of the artist and his mother.  Works of photography, prints, sculpture, and ceramics accompany paintings in this multi-media...

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December 30, 2015 - May 29, 2016 - Drawing from the important embroidery collections at the Museum, The Plain and Ornamental Branches presents fifteen embroidered samplers and silkwork pictures stitched by Pennsylvania girls and young women. From elegant and exuberant to plain and neat, these embroideries reflect important aspects of the lives of their makers their educational accomplishments, rel...

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Tropical bonsai trees are on display. The bonsai can be viewed from all sides and every angle. The spring months bring tall flowering spikes of forced perennials such as foxglove, larkspur, and lupines, and a brief appearance of the fragrant, purple-boughed wisteria trees. In the summer, the pool is filled with a variety of tropical foliage and flowers. In the fall, the gallery is filled with bask...

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January 1 - May 10, 2016 - This exhibition—presented only at the Art Institute of Chicago—brings together all three versions of The Bedroom for the first time in North America, offering a pioneering and in-depth study of their making and meaning to Van Gogh in his relentless quest for home. This exhibition is the first to truly delve into the fascinating history of these three paintin...

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January 1-May 8, 2016 - After a historic meeting in Florence last fall with His Holiness Pope Francis at the iconic Baptistery of Saint John, Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion returns home to the Art Institute galleries this spring. One of the museum’s most significant works of modern art—and the Pope’s favorite painting—White Crucifixion has become a universally potent symbol of sacrifi...

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January 1 - June 25, 2016 - Presenting 13 paintings by South American artists from the 17th through 19th century, this focused exhibition introduces visitors to images promoted by several Catholic orders at work in the Spanish Andes—the Dominicans, Franciscans, Mercedarians, and Jesuits—examining the politics of the distinct iconographies each group developed as they vied for devotees and dom...

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January 4, 2016 - October 31, 2016 - This exhibition  shows rejecting tradition and embracing more body-conscious styles, the young American "flapper" wore her newly won freedom to vote, earn, and learn on her body: short dresses and clear stockings, bobbed hair, and a head-hugging cloche. The cloche - a bell-shaped hat considered "clever" and "smart" - framed th...

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January 9 - August 7, 2016 - This exhibition features eight quilts all recent additions to the Museum's outstanding quilt collection, only one of which has been shown at the Museum before. The display also includes a selection of folk painting and furniture from The American Wing's collection, as well as two important paintings by Edward Hicks (American, 1780–1840), on loan from...

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