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Exploring Chicago’s Art Institute: Part 4

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Still working my way through Chicago’s Art Institute. The current status of visited galleries is:

  • Lower Level
    • Photography (1-4, 10) – Visited
    • Thorne Miniature Rooms (11) – Visited
    • Paperweights (15) – Visited
    • Architecture and Design (24) – Visited
    • Textiles – Visited
  • First Level
    • Prints and Drawings (124-127)  – Visited
    • Indian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan Art (140-143)  – Visited
    • Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Art (101–109, 130-135) – Visited
    • Indian Art of the Americas (136) – Visited
    • African Art – Visited
    • American Decorative Arts 1920–1970 (162) – Visited
    • Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art (150-154)  – Visited
    • American Art before 1900 (161-179) – Visited
    • Chagall’s America Windows (144)  – Visited
    • Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room  – Visited
  • Second Level
    • Chicago Architecture (200)
    • European Art before 1900 (201–248)
    • American Folk Art (227) – Visited
    • European Decorative Arts (231-234)
    • Arms and Armor (235-237) – Visited
    • Renaissance Jewelry (237) – Visited
    • Impressionism (225-226, 201, 240-243) – Visited
    • American Modern Art 1900-1950 (261-265, 271-273) – Visited
    • Special Exhibitions (Regenstein Hall) – Visited
Portrait of Jeanne Wenz - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Portrait of Jeanne Wenz – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Only three more areas to explore (Chicago Architecture, European Art before 1900, European Decorative Arts), and then I am done. But not really. I know that the winter months will find me here at lunch, and I will also have to take a deeper look at the various apps that the museum has created.

Head of Pavlova - Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)

Head of Pavlova – Malvina Hoffman (1887-1966)