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Art Institute Of Chicago Artworks List Example

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Art Institute Of Chicago Artworks List Example is an example object payload from Art Institute of Chicago, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

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Example Payload

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{
  "pagination": {
    "total": 131945,
    "limit": 1,
    "offset": 0,
    "total_pages": 131945,
    "current_page": 1,
    "next_url": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks?page=2&limit=1"
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 74340,
      "api_model": "artworks",
      "api_link": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/74340",
      "is_boosted": false,
      "title": "Girafters (Furnishing Fabric)",
      "alt_titles": [],
      "thumbnail": {
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        "width": 3214,
        "height": 6472,
        "alt_text": "A work made of modacrylic and rayon, plain weave; screen printed."
      },
      "main_reference_number": "1989.225.6",
      "has_not_been_viewed_much": true,
      "boost_rank": null,
      "date_start": 1965,
      "date_end": 1965,
      "date_display": "1965 (produced and reprinted 1988)",
      "date_qualifier_title": "Designed",
      "date_qualifier_id": 2,
      "artist_display": "Designed by Ben Rose (American, 1916\u20132004)\nProduced by Ben Rose, Inc.\nUnited States, Illinois, Chicago",
      "place_of_origin": "United States",
      "description": null,
      "short_description": null,
      "dimensions": "277 \u00d7 125.9 cm (109 \u00d7 49 1/2 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 76.1 cm (30 in.)",
      "dimensions_detail": [
        {
          "depth": null,
          "width": 125,
          "height": 277,
          "diameter": null,
          "clarification": null
        },
        {
          "depth": null,
          "width": null,
          "height": 76,
          "diameter": null,
          "clarification": "Warp repeat"
        }
      ],
      "medium_display": "Modacrylic and rayon, plain weave; screen printed",
      "inscriptions": "Inscription (stamped on selvage): Ben Rose Hand Print-1949  Reprinted-1988",
      "credit_line": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rose",
      "catalogue_display": null,
      "publication_history": "Christa C. Mayer Thurman, \"Rooted in Chicago: Fifty Years of Textile Design Traditions,\" published in conjunction with the exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, 1 (1997): 62 (ill.).",
      "exhibition_history": "Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Designed by the Yard: 20th Century Pattern Repeats, Feb. 28\u2013June 25, 1990.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. C...",
      "provenance_text": "Ben Rose (1916-2004) and Frances Rose (born Landrum), Highland Park, IL, from 1988 [incoming receipt RX17789, Apr. 24, 1989; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 198...",
      "edition": null,
      "publishing_verification_level": "Web Everything",
      "internal_department_id": 4,
      "fiscal_year": 1989,
      "fiscal_year_deaccession": null,
      "is_public_domain": false,
      "is_zoomable": false,
      "max_zoom_window_size": 843,
      "copyright_notice": null,
      "has_multimedia_resources": false,
      "has_educational_resources": false,
      "has_advanced_imaging": false,
      "colorfulness": 17.2993,
      "color": {
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        "l": 52,
        "s": 0,
        "percentage": 6.986099060090233e-05,
        "population": 1
      },
      "latitude": null,
      "longitude": null,
      "latlon": null,
      "is_on_view": false,
      "on_loan_display": null,
      "gallery_title": null,
      "gallery_id": null,
      "nomisma_id": null,
      "artwork_type_title": "Textile",
      "artwork_type_id": 5,
      "department_title": "Textiles",
      "department_id": "PC-14",
      "artist_id": 22194,
      "artist_title": "Ben Rose",
      "alt_artist_ids": [
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      ],
      "artist_ids": [
        22194,
        47800
      ],
      "artist_titles": [
        "Ben Rose",
        "Ben Rose, Inc."
      ],
      "category_ids": [
        "PC-14",
        "PC-827"
      ],
      "category_titles": [
        "Textiles",
        "SAIC Alumni and Faculty"
      ],
      "term_titles": [
        "Chicago",
        "textile",
        "weaving - printed",
        "furnishing textile"
      ],
      "style_id": null,
      "style_title": null,
      "alt_style_ids": [],
      "style_ids": [],
      "style_titles": [],
      "classification_id": "TM-69",
      "classification_title": "textile",
      "alt_classification_ids": [
        "TM-353",
        "TM-14729"
      ],
      "classification_ids": [
        "TM-69",
        "TM-353",
        "TM-14729"
      ],
      "classification_titles": [
        "textile",
        "weaving - printed",
        "furnishing textile"
      ],
      "subject_id": "TM-12075",
      "alt_subject_ids": [],
      "subject_ids": [
        "TM-12075"
      ],
      "subject_titles": [
        "Chicago"
      ],
      "material_id": null,
      "alt_material_ids": [],
      "material_ids": [],
      "material_titles": [],
      "technique_id": null,
      "alt_technique_ids": [],
      "technique_ids": [],
      "technique_titles": [],
      "theme_titles": [
        "SAIC Alumni and Faculty"
      ],
      "image_id": "90f02bfd-bbca-8477-b10e-df4a6ffb2f79",
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      ],
      "document_ids": [],
      "sound_ids": [],
      "video_ids": [],
      "text_ids": [],
      "section_ids": [],
      "section_titles": [],
      "site_ids": [],
      "suggest_autocomplete_all": [
        {
          "input": [
            "1989.225.6"
          ],
          "contexts": {
            "groupings": [
              "accession"
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "input": [
            "Girafters (Furnishing Fabric)"
          ],
          "weight": 82,
          "contexts": {
            "groupings": [
              "title"
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "source_updated_at": "2024-06-12T17:54:31-05:00",
      "updated_at": "2026-05-29T09:18:59-05:00",
      "timestamp": "2026-05-29T09:19:16-05:00"
    }
  ],
  "info": {
    "license_text": "The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu.",
    "license_links": [
      "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
      "https://www.artic.edu/terms"
    ],
    "version": "1.14"
  },
  "config": {
    "iiif_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2",
    "website_url": "http://www.artic.edu"
  }
}

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