# Art institute of chicago artist search

Needs q.

Who is this artist? Artists and makers in the Art Institute of Chicago's records (about 15,000), ranked by relevance to your words: id, name, sort name, alternative names, birth and death years, and a museum biography as HTML on the better-known ones. Read the top names only: the words rank the list and do not filter it, so far results are unrelated. See their works with artic/artwork-search.

- Tool ID: `artic/artist-search`
- Name in the catalog: Art Institute of Chicago artist search
- Provider: [Art Institute of Chicago](/providers/artic.md)
- Capability: [Wikipedia, books & web archives](/tools/knowledge/reference.md)
- Price: no charge per call
- Authentication: an authorised Agentik workspace is required for execution, including zero-price tools.

## Pricing contract

No charge per call. A workspace is still needed so your agent can call it.


```json
{
  "model": "per_call",
  "amountUsd": 0
}
```

## Complete input schema


```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "q": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 200,
      "description": "Artist name or words, e.g. 'Mary Cassatt'"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 50,
      "default": 10,
      "description": "Artists per page (max 50), e.g. 10"
    },
    "page": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100,
      "default": 1,
      "description": "Page number, e.g. 2"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "q"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## Published example

This is the provider tool’s published example. Replace example values with the user’s requested inputs, respecting the schema; do not execute an example merely to test a connection.


```json
{
  "tool_id": "artic/artist-search",
  "input": {
    "q": "Mary Cassatt",
    "limit": 3
  }
}
```

## Execute and retrieve

Inspect again before execution, explain the price and obtain the required authority. Use MCP run_tool or POST /v1/run with this tool ID, valid input and an idempotency key. Save the returned run ID and follow the actual state. If Agentik answers that the tool is temporarily unavailable, do not retry it blindly; use discovery to propose an alternative.

A partial or uncertain result can still have consumed provider resources. Consult [billing](/docs/billing.md), [idempotency](/docs/idempotency.md) and [asynchronous results](/docs/async.md).

Licence: CC0 1.0 (Art Institute of Chicago API data).

Attribution: Data from the Art Institute of Chicago API (artic.edu); images follow artic.edu image licensing.

[Provider documentation](https://api.artic.edu/docs/#agents)

[REST inspection](https://api.agentik.cc/v1/tools/artic/artist-search) · [OpenAPI](/openapi.json) · [Connection guide](/connect.md)

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[HTML page](/providers/artic/artist-search) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)