Floor plan

East wing: The Nineteenth CenturyPost-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

A scene in brown and green tones of people dancing indoors. In the foreground, three women stand near boothed tables while a man sits.
A work made of black conté crayon, on white laid paper, laid down on cream board.
Pastel drawing of two figures in a sailboat, bright multi-colored clouds.
Heavy daubs of pigment form a crowded scene of roughly defined, finely dressed individuals in a brightly color park along a riverbank.
Road in Etten, by Vincent van Gogh, 1881
Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.
Armor, by Odilon Redon, 1891
A work made of reed pen and black-brown ink, with black chalk on off-white wove paper.

The works in this room are listed below.

Works in this room

Artists who kept Impressionism's colour but pushed towards structure, symbol and feeling.

Section 1, north wall

  1. A scene in brown and green tones of people dancing indoors. In the foreground, three women stand near boothed tables while a man sits.
    Moulin de la GaletteHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1889Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. A work made of black conté crayon, on white laid paper, laid down on cream board.
    Trees (study for La Grande Jatte)Georges Seurat, 1884Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Pastel drawing of two figures in a sailboat, bright multi-colored clouds.
    Flower CloudsOdilon Redon, c. 1903Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  4. Heavy daubs of pigment form a crowded scene of roughly defined, finely dressed individuals in a brightly color park along a riverbank.
    Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884"Georges Seurat, 1884Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 1, south wall

  1. Road in Etten, by Vincent van Gogh, 1881
    Road in EttenVincent van Gogh, 1881Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.
    The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'EstaquePaul Cézanne, c. 1885Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Armor, by Odilon Redon, 1891
    ArmorOdilon Redon, 1891Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. A work made of reed pen and black-brown ink, with black chalk on off-white wove paper.
    Weeping TreeVincent van Gogh, 1889Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Section 2, south wall

  1. Irises, by Vincent van Gogh, 1890
    IrisesVincent van Gogh, 1890Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. The Card Players, by Paul Cézanne, 1890–92
    The Card PlayersPaul Cézanne, 1890–92Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  3. The image shows two women walking arm in arm, both in traditional attire. One woman is facing away with a slight profile, while the other is seen from the side. Their faces are stylized and simplistic with covered hair. They wear long dresses with aprons and collars, and one has a striped apron. Haystacks and greenery surround them. Faint figures are in the background, as well as a spire-like structure. A dog is seen near the haystack, with simple lines suggesting a landscape.
    Pleasures of Brittany (Joies de Bretagne)Paul Gauguin, 1889Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
  4. Painted in muted lime green, plum purple, buttercup yellow, slate and royal blue, the head and shoulders of a man with peach-colored skin sitting in front of a window looks at us in this stylized, vertical portrait. His body and face are angled to our right but he looks at us from the corners of his eyes, which are grass-green with touches of yellow. One cobalt-blue eyebrow is cocked, and shading in denim blue, butter yellow, and fern green create hollows under both eyes. His flat nose has a broad bridge, and his pale pink lips are closed, the far corner pulled slightly up. His mustache is painted with visible strokes of forest green and his ginger-orange beard is trimmed along his prominent, jutting chin. His short, dark hair is brushed back from his temples and is painted with strokes of pine green, navy blue, and coral orange. His shirt has a wide, golden yellow stripe along the collar above indigo blue, under a grayish-violet purple jacket. The wall over his shoulder, in the upper left corner, is painted vivid lime green with long, vertical brushstrokes. The view through the window beyond his other shoulder is of vegetation and mountains. The portrait is painted with visible brushstrokes throughout, and is especially loose in the background, hair, and jacket. An inscription in dark green script in the upper left reads, “a l'ami Carriere PGauguin.” A second inscription in the lower left is written with dark brown paint: “l'ami Laval PGo.”
    Self-Portrait Dedicated to CarrièrePaul Gauguin, 1888 or 1889Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Section 2, north wall

  1. In the Waves (Dans les Vagues), by Paul Gauguin, 1889
    In the Waves (Dans les Vagues)Paul Gauguin, 1889Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. Homage to Goya, by Odilon Redon, 1885
    Homage to GoyaOdilon Redon, 1885Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  3. Mount Sainte-Victoire, by Paul Cézanne, c. 1904
    Mount Sainte-VictoirePaul Cézanne, c. 1904Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  4. A work made of oil on linen canvas.
    Woman in Front of a Still Life by CezannePaul Gauguin, 1890Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago