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Post-Impressionism

structure after the glance

What came when the impression was no longer enough: colour used for feeling and form rebuilt on purpose rather than observed away.

works 12artists 9dates 1881 – 1907entry free

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Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence.

Key work of the hall Paul Gauguin Arlésiennes (Mistral) 1888 · Oil on jute canvas
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

A heronǳ silhouette sits amongst the brush in a golden hued forest. — George Inness *The Home of the Heron* 1893 · Oil on canvas
Florida · 76.2 × 115.2 cm
Edward B. Butler Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Dense and varied landscape with open fields, groves of bushy trees, and a row of thin conifers. A light-blue river tranverses the canvas, and a church steeple emerges from the trees at left of center. At far left is a side view of a white house with open shutters, a woman working inside. — Édouard Jean Vuillard *Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods* 1899 · Oil on canvas
France · 249.2 × 378.5 cm
L.L. and A.S. Coburn Fund, Martha E. Leverone, Charles Norton Owen funds, and purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Heavy daubs of pigment form a crowded scene of roughly defined, finely dressed individuals in a brightly color park along a riverbank. — Georges Seurat *Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"* 1884 · Oil on panel
France · 15.5 × 24.3 cm
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

A diagonal line of leaping ballet dancers recedes from a starkly lit dancer partially visible at bottom left. All are broadly painted against a blue-green ground above them, pale pink below. They have obscured features and are highlighted in yellow and green. A conductor's hands emerge at bottom. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec *Ballet Dancers* 1885–86 · Oil on plaster, transferred to canvas
France · 153.5 × 152.5 cm
Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

A work made of oil on jute canvas. — Paul Gauguin *No te aha oe riri (Why Are You Angry?)* 1896 · Oil on jute canvas
France · 95.3 × 130.6 cm
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

A work made of oil on canvas. — Camille Pissarro *Woman and Child at the Well* 1882 · Oil on canvas
France · 81.5 × 66.4 cm
Potter Palmer Collection
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Painting of a stately woman seated on a red velvet chair in a blood-red room, a blue-white fireplace to her left. She glances down at the floor with a serene expression toward a tiny blond child—a baby—who sits on the floor tearing up paper, her pink-clad back facing the viewer. — Félix Edouard Vallotton *The Red Room, Etretat* 1899 · Oil on artist's board
Switzerland · 49.2 × 51.3 cm
Bequest of Mrs. Clive Runnells
Art Institute of Chicago · public domain

Where you are

Post-Impressionism on the plan of the building.

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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.