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Art Institute of Chicago Awarded Major Grant by the Getty Foundation for Online Catalogue

CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced that the museum has been awarded $400,000 by the Getty Foundation for the implementation of an online catalogue of paintings and drawings by the artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The grant supports further work on the prototype developed by the Art Institute of Chicago for the Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI), a program begun by the Getty Foundation to bring scholarly research and publication into the digital age. The Art Institute prototype offers a truly interactive digital “reading” experience, presentation of material not possible in a printed catalogue, and a flexible interface designed with scholars in mind. “We are extraordinarily grateful that the Getty Foundation has further committed to our work on the online catalogue with this grant,” said Sam Quigley, vice president