Art Institute of Chicago Artwork Lookup

Use this endpoint when you need structured museum-grade metadata for artworks in the Art Institute of Chicago collection, especially provenance text, exhibition history, public domain status, and official record links. Prefer this over generic web search when you need authoritative, structured data sourced directly from the museum's records. Best suited for art due diligence, editorial licensing checks, academic research, and art history queries.

• Query too short or too long (must be 2-120 characters) — returns error
• No matching artwork found — returns found: false with empty or null fields
• Ambiguous query matches multiple artworks — primary result may be wrong, but alternate_matches array will contain candidates
• Artwork exists but provenance text is null — museum record may be incomplete
• Image URL may be null if the museum has not digitized the work