The feasting season is here, and the reading room will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thu

The feasting season is here, and the reading room will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 22, and Friday, November 23. We hope that all of you have a delicious holiday.

All of the artworks shown here are in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and, although the museum will be closed on Thursday, November 22, the galleries will be open on Friday. Still Life: Corner of a Table (1873) by Ignace Henri Jen Theodore Fantin-Latour is on view in gallery 225. Charles Demuth’s Eggplant and Plums(1922-23), Doris Lee’s Thanksgiving (1935), and Wayne Thiebaud’s Cakes No. 1 (1967) currently are not on view.

The reading room will reopen at 1:00 on Monday, November 26, when you can come in to review Feasting: A Celebration of Food in Art, the 1992 collection catalog that contains the images you see here, as well as other works on food in art, including 2013′s Art and Appetitecatalog.