Art Institute's Contemporary Art after 1960

Ellsworth Kelly's pure line, form and color

Andy Warhol's Mao

Gerhard Richter's Woman Descending the Staircase...photo with scraping method.

David Hockney's portrait of the Frederick Weismans who were famous art collectors

Gerhard Richter's more scraping of layers of paint.

Museum of Modern Art with Chicago Jazz

Enjoying music at the Jazz Show Case with Jon and Marsha

Ed Paschke's Elcina, 1973

Thanks Jon and Marsha for the wonderful dinner with Jazz on the MOCA patio.

Art Institute of Chicago European Modern Art, 1900-1950

Man Ray's Invention, 1916

Amedeo Modigliani's painting of Mr. and Mrs. Lipchitz

Arshile Gorky's self-portrait, 1927-1928

Marc Chagall's The Praying Jew, 1923...painting the cultural types of his homeland (now Belarus)

Maurice de Vlaminck's Houses at Chaton, 1905.  Note influence of Van Gogh

Joan Miro's Portraint of Juanita Obrador, 1918

Wassily Kandinsky's Houses at Murnau, 1909

Henri Matisse's Lorette with Cup of Coffee, 1916-17

Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist painted during his 'blue period' 1903-1904
I first saw copies of this painting 53 years ago.  It itroduced me into the emotional adventures of art appreciation.

Henry Moore

Marc Chagall's Birth, 1911/12.  This was painted whle he was living "In La Ruche", the hive.  Chagall lived there with Modigliani and other painters.  He said you either came our dead or famous.

Francis Picabia's Tetes-paysage, 1928

Alexei Jawlensky's Girl with the Green Face, 1910

Salvador Dali's "A Chemist Lifting withExtreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano", 1936

Art Institute of Chicago Dawoud Bey's Harlem, U.S.A

These photos by Dawoud Bey in 1979 were made as a way to "return" to the community of his parents and family.  He writes that in taking these pictures, he became a part of the neighborhood and show the lives of the people and his feelings toward them.

More Art institute of Chicago

Marc Chagall windows

Georges Seurat"s A Suday on La Grande Jatte - 1884

Vincent van Gogh's The Poet's Garden, 1888

Vincent van Gogh

Walt Kuhn's Clown with a Drum

Van Gogh's self portrait

Camille Pissarro's Woman Sewing, 1895

Renoir

Paul Cezanne's Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair, 1888-1890

Van Gogh's Madame Roulin Rockin the Cradle, 1889

A great place for lunch in the museum courtyard

Paul Cezanne's Tulips...like the ones at the Norton Simon museum

Van Gogh's drinking pals

Paul Gauguin

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's life at the Moulin Rouge

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Two Sisters (1881)

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks

The last Chagall window

Paul Cezanne's Basket of Apples, 1893

Claude Monet's Houses of Parliament in the style of Turner, 1900-1901

Van Gogh's interior of the Yellow House in Arles

Claude Monet's Stack of Wheat, 1890

Van Gogh's Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy, 1887

Claude Monet's garden

Scenes of Chicago

Millennium Park Scene at the Plaza

Wrigley and Tribune Building looking North on Michigan Ave.

Sears Tower in the background

In Millennium Park walking toward the Frank Geary designed Pritzker out door auditorium.

The Water Tower and Hancock Building...scene from top above.

Students at their daily practice of Big Band Jazz in the Park

Twas over 100 degrees...we all wanted to play in the fountain.

Pritzker Pavilion and the rehearsal for Carmina Burana

The Bean at the Park

More playing in the fountain