Art Institute of Chicago gallery

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Art Institute of Chicago gallery: artworks by department, new artwork form, artwork record

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Art Institute of Chicago gallery

A gallery app seeded with every public-domain artwork the Art Institute of Chicago publishes through its open API: title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, style and place of origin, grouped by curatorial department, each with an image from the museum's IIIF image server and a link to its page on artic.edu. The data is CC0; the CC BY descriptions are left out.

Gallery / collection · 3 tables · design: Broadsheet Serif

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Tables

  • departments3 columns · 16 rows in the full data
  • artists3 columns · 6,359 rows in the full data
  • artworks22 columns · 62,079 rows in the full data

Sources and licences

  • Art Institute of Chicago API — CC0 data (Free to use)
  • Own packs (ours) — Ours (Free to use)

Shown in the app and its export: Artwork data and images from the Art Institute of Chicago (data CC0; artic.edu terms).

Sample: the whole source. Full data: 68,454 rows, 102 MB. Measured 2026-10-20.

Data from api.artic.edu, imported 2026-10-20.

The full data, for your own database

68,454 rows, 7.2 MB to download. CreativePower keeps only the made-up sample rows in your project; load the full data into your own PostgreSQL database (Supabase works): download these files into one folder, unzip the .csv.gz files, then run psql "<your connection string>" -f load.sql.