Paws & pause: Take a break from doomscrolling to enjoy these museum-quality dogs

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A Collection of Museum Dogs

Take a much-needed break from doomscrolling to revel in the beauty and loyalty captured by artists across the centuries. These museum-quality dogs, from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, offer the perfect artistic escape.

 

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Marble Dog

Marble with painted background, for the french artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1913

 

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White Dog 

Etching on ivory laid paper, a white dog For the artist Wenceslaus Hollar.

 

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Ceramic Dog Figure

Ceramic dog figure found in Colima, Mexico, it goes back to 1 CE–200 CE, the first and second centuries of the Common Era.

 

Boy of Hallett Family with Dog

Oil on canvas painting for a boy with his dog, 1766 – 1776

 

Landscape with Dog

Oil on composition board painting of a dog for the artist, Thomas Doughty,1832.

 

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Woman with Dog

Woman and her dog for the artist, Katharina Fritsch made with polyester, iron, wood, and paint, 2004.

 

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Bob the Dog

Gouache and graphite on wove papers, for the artist Joan Brown, 1964.

 

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Black and White Dog

Lithograph on white wove paper, for the artist Maryan, 1967.

 

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Sleeping Dog

Lithograph on cream wove paper, for the artist Walt Kuhn.

 

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The Mange Dog, Deserted

Etching with aquatint in black on cream wove paper for the artist Tony Fitzpatrick, 1993.

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