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Modernism

the picture admits it is a picture

The surface stops pretending to be a window. Flatness, edge and paint become the subject as openly as anything depicted.

works 12artists 8dates 1891 – 1920entry free
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Large painting, standing man blue turtleneck, sitting woman with white collar.
Key work of the hall Amedeo Modigliani Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz 1916 · Oil on canvas
Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
Very dark painting of a light-skinned, mostly clean-shaven young man in dark suit and dark full-length coat, holding a rolled-up paper and gloves.
James McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy 1894 · Oil on canvas
Paris · 210.7 × 93.3 cm
Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on canvas.
Marsden Hartley Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico 1920 · Oil on canvas
New York City · 70.6 × 90.8 cm
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on canvas.
John Singer Sargent Study of Two Bedouins 1905–6 · Oil on canvas
United States · 46.7 × 39.1 cm
Gift of Brooks McCormick
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on composition board.
Marsden Hartley The Dark Mountain 1909 · Oil on composition board
United States · 48.9 × 59.1 cm
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on canvas.
John Singer Sargent Water Carriers on the Nile 1891 · Oil on canvas
United States · 54.3 × 65.4 cm
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on panel.
James McNeill Whistler Study of a Girl's Head and Shoulders 1896–97 · Oil on panel
United States · 15.5 × 9.5 cm
Walter S. Brewster Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on canvas.
Anders Zorn Nude Girl in Doorway c. 1900 · Oil on canvas
Sweden · 51.1 × 34.3 cm
Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard E. Danielson
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on canvas.
Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin Mill of Pont Maupuit c. 1900 · Oil on canvas
France · 63.5 × 80 cm
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on canvas.
Charles Cottet Portrait of a Woman c. 1900 · Oil on canvas
France · 57.8 × 48.3 cm
Gift of Henry J. Willing
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on canvas.
Vilhelm Hammershøi Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30 1907 · Oil on canvas
Denmark · 70 × 59 cm
Joseph Winterbotham Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain
A work made of oil on composition board.
Marsden Hartley Movement No. 10 1917 · Oil on composition board
United States · 38.7 × 49.5 cm
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Where you are

Modernism on the plan of the building.
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upper tier · +6.40 circulation spine void over court light drops to the tier below 06 Post-Impressionism 12 works · 18x12 m 07 Modernism 12 works · 18x12 m you are here 08 Ukiyo-e 12 works · 16x12 m 09 Pictorialism 12 works · 18x10 m 10 Folk Art 12 works · 16x10 m dn lower tier · +0.00 circulation spine court · open air 01 Renaissance and Before 12 works · 18x12 m 02 The Seventeenth Century 12 works · 18x12 m 03 The Barbizon School 7 works · 16x12 m 04 Realism 12 works · 18x10 m 05 Impressionism 12 works · 16x10 m up entrance 52 m 10 m N ▭ hall, width follows the size of the hang · ⌐ door · ▤ open-air court · ≡ stair upper tier · +6.40 circulation spine dn 06 Post-Impressionism 12 works 07 Modernism 12 works you are here 08 Ukiyo-e 12 works 09 Pictorialism 12 works 10 Folk Art 12 works lower tier · +0.00 circulation spine up 01 Renaissance and Before 12 works 02 The Seventeenth Century 12 works 03 The Barbizon School 7 works 04 Realism 12 works 05 Impressionism 12 works court · open air entrance 10 m N

Every work shown here is in the public domain and comes from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, published under its Open Access programme (CC0). Artist, title, date, medium and the museum’s own credit line are printed under each plate, and every plate links to the object record in Chicago. EPRIS Museum claims no rights in these images.