Art Institute of Chicago

  • The Bedroom

    Here is a striking fact that stops most visitors cold: when Vincent van Gogh painted The Bedroom, he was so exhausted from work and illness that he intended the painting to rest the mind — yet the result is one of the most psychologically charged rooms in all of Western art. Quick Facts Artist: Vincent…

  • Water Lilies (1906)

    Here is a number that might stop you mid-scroll: Claude Monet painted roughly 250 versions of Water Lilies – and the 1906 canvas now hanging in the Art Institute of Chicago sits at the exact midpoint of that obsession, created at a moment when Monet was pushing paint further from reality than almost any Western…