Peter Doig: Arts Club of Chicago.(survey of the artist's paintings and works on paper made since 1991)

For much of the past decade, the painting and subject matter of Edinburgh-born artist Peter Doig appeared at odds with the art world's prevailing taste. Taking their (painterly) cues from such unfashionable and unlikely precedents as Edward Hopper, David Milne, Edvard Munch, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Doig's melancholic works--invariably landscapes--were anathema to the visceral theatrics and conceptual endgames of much '90s art.

However, Doig's persistent engagement with painting's potential to describe or imagine pictorial realms outside of, or just beyond, those of our ...

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