Thrilled to announce that the Art Institute of Chicago has acquired 30 important lifetime works by Francesca Woodman from the Foundation’s holdings. With the breadth and depth of this acquisition, the Art Institute now owns the largest institutional collection of the artist’s lifetime works and has become a major center for its preservation and public display.

The acquisition includes a representative group of small scale gelatin silver prints – both iconic and lesser known; large scale gelatin silver prints; a large scale diazotype Caryatid; and two of Woodman’s acclaimed yet rarely seen artist’s books.

Our thanks to the Photography and Media department at the Art Institute, and to Helen Zell, for their vision and commitment to Woodman’s work. And to our partners at Gagosian.