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Monday, 25 January 2010

Art Institute of Chicago

Posted on 09:00 by john mical
With a collection larger than NYC's Museum of Modern Art, but smaller than NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago's 300,000 piece collection is best known for its impressionist and post-impressionist paintings.
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