A key destination for any art admirer, the Art Institute of Chicago houses an extraordinary collection of master paintings. Within the covers of this beautiful book, updated to include some recent acquisitions and a new preface by director Douglas Druick, the reader finds an amazing selection of European and American paintings dating from the Renaissance to the present day. Included are singular works by Rembrandt, Rubens, and El Greco; Cassatt, Homer, and J.M.W. Whistler; Degas, Monet, Caillebotte, and Seurat; Picasso, Lichtenstein, Richter, and Twombly.
