The Scream
1895
Lithograph in black ink on cream card
35.5 × 25.3 cm (14 × 10 in)
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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026
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“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 · 12d
I did not know the Art Institute had a lithograph version. The black and white almost makes it worse — nothing to soften it.
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Elena Petrova · 11d
Munch printed it so the scream could travel. There is something fitting about the most anxious image in art history being reproducible.
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