VOICES FROM HISTORY
“I was walking along the road with two friends — the sun went down — suddenly the sky turned a bloody red… I stood there trembling with anxiety, and I felt a vast, endless scream pass through nature.”
— Edvard Munch, from his diary, written in Nice, January 1892
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Peter Lindgren · Jul 2026
I did not know the Art Institute had a lithograph version. The black and white almost makes it worse — nothing to soften it.
Elena Petrova · Jul 2026
Munch printed it so the scream could travel. There is something fitting about the most anxious image in art history being reproducible.
Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) — The Black Rocks
Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916) — In My Dream I Saw in the 
Vincent van Gogh — The Starry Night
Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916) — First a Pool of Water, Th
Lemercier & Cie. — The Man Was Alone in a Night Landscape
Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916) — It Is the Devil, Bearing 
Max Pechstein (German, 1881–1955) — Head of a Fisherman
Vincent van Gogh — Self-portrait
Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918) — La Mort et les Pa
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945) — Help Russia
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) — Aristide Bru
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) — The Abandonment of Aria
