โ† Art & Museums

Search Art Institute of Chicago

GET /museum/chicago/search

Search the Art Institute of Chicago's collection of 100,000+ artworks. Returns results with titles, artists, dates, mediums, dimensions, departments, and IIIF image URLs.

Parameters

q required

Search query (e.g. 'impressionism', 'picasso')

Example Requests

Basic usage
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/museum/chicago/search?q=impressionism"

Live Response

{
  "data": {
    "artworks": [
      {
        "artist": "George Inness (American, 1825โ€“1894)",
        "date": "1892",
        "department": "Arts of the Americas",
        "dimensions": "107.2 ร— 82.2 cm (42 3/16 ร— 32 3/8 in.)",
        "id": 64729,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/ef96e79b-f481-8114-0804-4bd39c101983/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "United States",
        "title": "Early Morning, Tarpon Springs"
      },
      {
        "artist": "Richard E. Miller (American, 1875โ€“1943)",
        "date": "c. 1913",
        "department": "Arts of the Americas",
        "dimensions": "114.3 ร— 146.1 cm (45 ร— 57 1/2 in.)",
        "id": 71562,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/815fb024-96bb-6f38-e6fc-d398d2103c65/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "United States",
        "title": "Sunlight"
      },
      {
        "artist": "George Hitchcock\nAmerican, 1850โ€“1913",
        "date": "1887",
        "department": "Arts of the Americas",
        "dimensions": "79.1 ร— 147.3 cm (31 1/8 ร— 58 in.)",
        "id": 138,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/e72305c9-1a1c-8a36-7450-582619366338/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "Holland",
        "title": "Flower Girl in Holland"
      },
      {
        "artist": "Jonas Lie (American, 1880โ€“1940)",
        "date": "c. 1913",
        "department": "Arts of the Americas",
        "dimensions": "127.6 ร— 153.4 cm (50 1/4 ร— 60 3/8 in.)",
        "id": 70065,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/2e796bd8-4e0b-f55a-7c69-75a70a3e97d7/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "United States",
        "title": "Afterglow"
      },
      {
        "artist": "Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851โ€“1938)",
        "date": "1911",
        "department": "Arts of the Americas",
        "dimensions": "61.3 ร— 50.8 cm (24 1/8 ร— 20 in.)",
        "id": 90899,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9604cbbd-722b-8de3-e7cc-4a80be648d79/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "United States",
        "title": "Lady in Green and Gray"
      },
      {
        "artist": "Georges Seurat (French, 1859โ€“1891)",
        "date": "1884โ€“86, border added 1888โ€“89",
        "department": "Painting and Sculpture of Europe",
        "dimensions": "207.5 ร— 308.1 cm (81 3/4 ร— 121 1/4 in.)",
        "id": 27992,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/2d484387-2509-5e8e-2c43-22f9981972eb/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "France",
        "title": "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte โ€” 1884"
      },
      {
        "artist": "Guy Carleton Wiggins (American, 1883โ€“1962)",
        "date": "c. 1920",
        "department": "Arts of the Americas",
        "dimensions": "84.5 ร— 100.3 cm (33 1/4 ร— 39 1/2 in.)",
        "id": 13763,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/045a1779-36a4-282f-49b8-b8fb007f8254/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "United States",
        "title": "Snow-Crowned Hills"
      },
      {
        "artist": "Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857โ€“1927)",
        "date": "c. 1915",
        "department": "Arts of the Americas",
        "dimensions": "76.4 ร— 101.8 cm (30 1/8 ร— 40 1/8 in.)",
        "id": 71573,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a67c4473-57a4-9807-a94e-1136d3daf876/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "United States",
        "title": "A Holiday"
      },
      {
        "artist": "Edvard Munch\nNorwegian, 1863-1944",
        "date": "1895",
        "department": "Prints and Drawings",
        "dimensions": "Image: 35.5 ร— 25.3 cm (14 ร— 10 in.); Sheet: 51 ร— 38.5 cm (20 1/8 ร— 15 3/16 in.)",
        "id": 17229,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/3b374643-5328-3e00-c02b-5ab56e5ae8f8/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Lithograph in black ink on cream card",
        "place_of_origin": "Norway",
        "title": "The Scream"
      },
      {
        "artist": "John Singer Sargent (American, 1856โ€“1925)",
        "date": "1897",
        "department": "Arts of the Americas",
        "dimensions": "231 ร— 124 cm (90 3/4 ร— 48 3/4 in.)",
        "id": 4749,
        "image_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/074c1b1b-fe92-01ce-9e62-cc99369142dd/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
        "medium": "Oil on canvas",
        "place_of_origin": "London",
        "title": "Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth)"
      }
    ]
  },
  "success": true
}