Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894), Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877, Oil on canvas, 83 1/2 x 108 3/4 in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Photography courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

FORT WORTH, TX.- Some of the most celebrated and iconic works of the great Impressionist painters are coming to the Kimbell Art Museum next summer! The loan of about 90 paintings from Chicago’s world-renowned Impressionist collection is possible because of an ambitious reinstallation and expansion project at the Art Institute that includes extensive renovation of the galleries and the construction of a new Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano—the architect recently chosen by the Kimbell to design its own second building. The Art Institute’s Impressionist collection has never before left Chicago in such a large group, and it will be shown exclusively at the Kimbell.

The Impressionists: Master Paintings from The Art Institute of Chicago will be a feast for the eyes more sumptuous than even the great Barnes Collection exhibition, seen at the Kimbell in 1994. It features masterpieces of painting by the world’s most beloved artists, including Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec—a succession of geniuses who, through a miracle of history, worked largely in the same country and within the span of a single lifetime. They were painters of modern life who created a more complete and delightful picture of the world in which they lived than any artists before them or since. Carried forward by the so-called “Post-Impressionists”—represented in the exhibition by masterpieces by Cézanne, van Gogh, and Gauguin—the Impressionist movement fostered breathtakingly original pictorial idioms that ushered in the progressive art of the 20th century.

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), The Bedroom, 1889, Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 5/8 in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. Photography courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago