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The Art Institute
of Chicago

At the Moulin
America
The Herring
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Windows
Rouge
Net
Unlike many of his fellow Unveiled at the Art Winslow Homer honed
Impres sionists who Institute in 1977, Marc his Realist skills as an
painted serene scenes, Chagall’s stunning illustrator for magazines.
Toulouse-Lautrec was stained-glass windows After moving to Maine,
drawn to the exuberant were a gift to the city he he created a series of
nightlife of Paris. This loved. The six vibrant images, including this
dramatic painting (1892) panels depict the US as one (1885), depicting
celebrates the Moulin a place of cultural and man’s complex relation-
Rouge cabaret (above). religious freedom. ship with the sea.
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte – 1884
7 Key to Floorplan
Lower level

Massive and mesmerizing, this painting took
Georges Seurat two years to complete. The scene is First level
Second level
created from dots of color, based on his study of Third level
optical theory, later known as pointillism.
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The Child’s
9
Bath
The only American to 8 0
exhibit in Paris with the
Impressionists, Mary
Cassatt often portrayed
women and children
as in this (left),
her most famous
painting (1893).
Her domestic
subjects reflect
the limited freedom 9 3 6 5 4
of women at the time.
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