Curator Emerson Bowyer On the Importance of the Horvitz Collection Donation

Last month, the Art Institute of Chicago announced that it had received a “transformative gift” of French Old Master art from Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz. The works in the gift hail from the 16th Century through to the 19th Century. It consists of nearly 2,000 drawings, 200 paintings and 50 sculptures, featuring works by Charles Le Brun, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David and Théodore Géricault, among other artists. We recently caught up with Art Institute of Chicago curator...