Art Institute of Chicago — Artworks, Artists and Mediums

Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection and get flat rows — title, artist, date, medium, department and public-domain status. Free public API, no key.

What you get

title, artist, dateDisplay, medium, dimensions, department, isPublicDomain, imageId, url.

Sample output

{ "title": "Water Lilies", "artist": "Claude Monet\nFrench, 1840-1926",
  "dateDisplay": "1906", "medium": "Oil on canvas", "isPublicDomain": true }

Limitations

• isPublicDomain is the field that matters for reuse. An artwork listed here without it is still under copyright, and the image is not yours to use.
• Not every artwork has an image, so imageId is often null.
• artist contains a newline between the name and the life dates, as the museum publishes it, and may name several artists for one work.
• Search relevance is a text match, not a curatorial ranking; department is the museum's own grouping.

Pricing

Pay per result.

Fields

Field	Type	What it holds
title	string	Title as the source writes it.
artist	string	Artist the track or release is credited to.
dateDisplay	string	The date as the museum chose to display it, e.g. '1890-1900'. A display STRING, deliberately vague, and not a parseable date.
medium	string	Materials the work was made from, as the museum states them. Free text, not a controlled list.
dimensions	string	Physical dimensions as the museum states them, with units and orientation words. Free text.
department	string	Government department the contract or grant belongs to.
isPublicDomain	boolean	Whether the museum marks the work as public domain.
imageId	string	Identifier of the primary image at the collection. Not a URL — see the README.
url	string	The URL this row describes.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• Art Institute of Chicago — Artworks, Artists and Mediums declares all 9 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of Art Institute of Chicago include title, artist, dateDisplay, medium, dimensions and department.
• Art Institute of Chicago needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of Art Institute of Chicago's 4 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• Art Institute of Chicago documents artist as: Artist the track or release is credited to.
• Every number published about Art Institute of Chicago is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• Art Institute of Chicago is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

FAQ

What does Art Institute of Chicago return?

It returns 9 documented output fields — title, artist, dateDisplay, medium, dimensions, department, isPublicDomain and imageId — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does Art Institute of Chicago require to run?

Nothing. All 4 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

Does Art Institute of Chicago need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is Art Institute of Chicago billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.