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Art Institute of Chicago

api.artic.edu

The Art Institute of Chicago's collection: artworks, artists and exhibitions with IIIF image references.

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1Request

Numeric agent id; appears as artist_id on an artwork record.

Comma list of fields to return instead of the whole record.

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Code follows the fields above
curl "https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/data/artic/artist?id=40610" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FASTCRW_API_KEY"

2Response example

A sample shape. Press Run to see live data from Art Institute of Chicago.

JSON
{
  "data": {
    "id": 40610,
    "api_model": "agents",
    "api_link": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/agents/40610",
    "title": "Vincent van Gogh",
    "sort_title": "Gogh, Vincent van",
    "alt_titles": [
      "Vincent Van Gogh",
      "Vincent-Willem van Gogh",
      "… 5 more items"
    ],
    "is_artist": true,
    "agent_type_id": 7,
    "agent_type_title": "Individual",
    "birth_date": 1853,
    "death_date": 1890,
    "description": "<p>During Vincent van Gogh’s tumultuous career as a painter, he created a revolutionary style characterized by exaggerated forms, a vivid color palette, and loose, spontaneous handling of paint. Although he only actively pursued his art for five years before his death in 1890, his impact has lived o…",
    "ulan_id": 500115588,
    "vocab_ids": null,
    "wikidata_id": null,
    "archives": [],
    "suggest_autocomplete_boosted": {
      "input": [
        "Vincent van Gogh",
        "Gogh, Vincent van",
        "… 7 more items"
      ],
      "weight": 3
    },
    "suggest_autocomplete_all": {
      "input": [
        "Vincent van Gogh",
        "Gogh, Vincent van",
        "… 7 more items"
      ],
      "weight": 3,
      "contexts": {
        "groupings": [
          "title"
        ]
      }
    },
    "source_updated_at": "2019-06-13T14:20:39-05:00",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-05T23:28:03-05:00",
    "timestamp": "2026-10-20T21:41:24-05:00"
  },
  "info": {
    "license_text": "The 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": "1.16"
  },
  "config": {
    "iiif_url": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2",
    "website_url": "https://www.artic.edu"
  }
}

Attribution: Source: Art Institute of Chicago

Licence: The Art Institute publishes its collection metadata under CC0; artwork images carry their own rights statement, given per record.

Ask with this source

A prompt for your agent that names this source and how to call it through the crw MCP.

  • Artist detail

    Use Art Institute of Chicago (artic) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Artist detail" (artist). You have an Art Institute artist id from an artwork record and want that artist's dates, nationality and biography. Example options: id=40610, fields=id,title,birth_date,death_date,description. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "artic" and capability "artist". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Artist search

    Use Art Institute of Chicago (artic) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Artist search" (artist-search). You have an artist's name as text and need the museum's numeric artist id before querying their works. Example options: q=van gogh, limit=20, from=10. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "artic" and capability "artist-search". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Artwork detail

    Use Art Institute of Chicago (artic) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Artwork detail" (artwork). You already have an Art Institute of Chicago artwork id and want everything the museum knows about that object. Example options: id=27992, fields=id,title,artist_title,date_display,image_id, include=artist_pivots. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "artic" and capability "artwork". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>

  • Artworks list

    Use Art Institute of Chicago (artic) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Artworks list" (artworks). You want to walk or sample the collection in bulk, or fetch several artworks by id in one call, rather than search by keyword. Example options: ids=27992,16568,28560, page=2, limit=25. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "artic" and capability "artworks". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>