Floor plan

Style galleriesPost-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress. Audience members wearing suits and top hats watch from red and white benches on the side.
View of a village surrounded by hills, fields, and trees, shown from a vantage point above the scene. Subtly rolling hills recede into a bluish gray-ish sky punctuated by white clouds. Thick brushstrokes built up atop each other are visible throughout.
Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of Carriages, by Pierre Bonnard, 1895
A work made of reed pen and iron-gall ink on tan laid paper.
Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Painting in short strokes of pale blue, green, white, yellow, and pink, of a fisherman in one of two small boats on a river, a tree-lined bank and a bridge in the background.

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.

First room, north wall

  1. Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress. Audience members wearing suits and top hats watch from red and white benches on the side.
    Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1887–88Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. View of a village surrounded by hills, fields, and trees, shown from a vantage point above the scene. Subtly rolling hills recede into a bluish gray-ish sky punctuated by white clouds. Thick brushstrokes built up atop each other are visible throughout.
    Auvers, Panoramic ViewPaul Cézanne, 1873–75Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

First room, south wall

  1. Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of Carriages, by Pierre Bonnard, 1895
    Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of CarriagesPierre Bonnard, 1895Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. A work made of reed pen and iron-gall ink on tan laid paper.
    Avenue of Pollard Birches and PoplarsVincent van Gogh, March 1884Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  3. Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889
    Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-RémyVincent van Gogh, 1889Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  4. Painting in short strokes of pale blue, green, white, yellow, and pink, of a fisherman in one of two small boats on a river, a tree-lined bank and a bridge in the background.
    Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)Vincent van Gogh, 1887Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Second room, south wall

  1. The Large Tree, by Paul Gauguin, 1891
    The Large TreePaul Gauguin, 1891Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
  2. Tahitian Faces (Frontal View and Profiles), by Paul Gauguin, ca. 1899
    Tahitian Faces (Frontal View and Profiles)Paul Gauguin, ca. 1899Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  3. At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol), by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899
    At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  4. A work made of pastel and graphite on cream wove paper.
    At the Circus: Trained Pony and BaboonHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Second room, north wall

  1. A work made of oil on canvas.
    The Vase of TulipsPaul Cézanne, c. 1890Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Armor, by Odilon Redon, 1891
    ArmorOdilon Redon, 1891Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  3. Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence.
    Arlésiennes (Mistral)Paul Gauguin, 1888Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Third room, north wall

  1. Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.
    At the Moulin RougeHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892–95Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
  2. Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat, 1887–88
    Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)Georges Seurat, 1887–88Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  3. Painting of a placid-looking, light-skinned woman in a maroon dress, seated in a chair with yellow upholstery, hands folded.
    Madame Cezanne in a Yellow ChairPaul Cézanne, 1888–90Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago