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Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944). Golgotha, 1900. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.) Munch Museum, Oslo, MMM 36 (C) 2008   The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.


ART INSTITUTE REFRAMES ARTIST EDVARD MUNCH
IN MAJOR EXHIBITION ONLY ON VIEW IN CHICAGO

Artist Behind The Scream Explored Through Works By European Contemporaries

The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce the
opening of Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety,
and Myth, a remarkably comprehensive and contextual
exploration of the Norwegian artist behind the iconic
composition The Scream. On view February 14 through
April 26, 2009, Becoming Edvard Munch, which will be
presented solely at the Art Institute, will showcase
extraordinary loans from Norway, private collections, and
leading museums in America and abroad. It brings together
approximately 150 rarely seen works, including 75 paintings
and 75 works on paper by Munch and his contemporaries.

By considering Munch’s oeuvre in relation to his fellow artists—including James Ensor, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Max Klinger,  and Claude Monet—Becoming Edvard Munch challenges the myth that Munch was an artist
crippled by his own neuroses and instead presents him as a canny self-promoter, deeply aware of the artistic trends around him. Many of Munch’s iconic works will be on display, including Anxiety, Kiss by the Window, and Ashes.





Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944). Madonna, 1895. Lithograph in black ink with additions in brush and red, green, blue, black, and yellow watercolor on mottled gray-blue wove paper (discolored to gray-green), laid down on heavyweight white wove paper Image: 60.3 x 44 cm (23 3/4 x 17 3/8 in.); sheet: 60.7 x 44.4 cm (23 7/8 x 17 1/2 in.) The Art Institute of Chicago, Print and Drawing Department Purchase Fund (C) 2008 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

Although the painting The Scream will not be on view, as
the two versions do not leave Oslo, Norway, the Art
Insti