(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Art lovers will be able to see a brand-new Monet exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago starting this weekend.
The Art Institute boasts the largest collection of works by Claude Monet (1840-1926) — 33 paintings and 13 drawings — outside of Paris.
The exhibit opening Saturday is entitled “Monet and Chicago.” It combines the museum’s pieces and more than 30 Monet works from private Chicago-based collections.
The exhibit will offer visitors insight into the technique of Monet, who is considered the “father of Impressionism.”
“We all think we know Monet, we can recognize a Monet, but there’s always something new to say, and this has a real Chicago focus,” says Gloria Groom, the museum’s David and Mary Winton Green Curator of 19th-Century European Painting and Sculpture.
Visitors will be able to see 68 paintings and 14 works on paper. The exhibit, which is designed with social-distancing restrictions in mind, runs through Jan. 18.