Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum's collection encompasses more than 300,000 works of art from around the world, spanning 5,000 years of human creativity.
Collection Highlights
- Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
- Grant Wood's American Gothic
- Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
- Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings
- Asian art and ancient collections
Open Access & Public Domain
The Art Institute of Chicago provides open access to many images in its collection under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) public domain dedication. This allows anyone to use these images freely for any purpose.
Explore the Collection
57,907 artworks from AIC available in our virtual museum
At Mouquin's
William James Glackens
1905
Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
1887
Young Bull
Albrecht Dürer
c. 1496, erroneously inscribed in another hand 1508
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"
Katsushika Hokusai
1830/33
Milarepa on Mount Kailash
Unknown
c. 1500
Yang Pu Moving His Family
Unknown
Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) 元朝
Seated Bodhisattva
Unknown
8th century
Legends of the Yūzū Nembutsu Sect
Unknown
Kamakura period (1185–1333), 14th century
Buddha Shakyamuni Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra)
Unknown
Chola period, about 12th century
Karttikeya, Commander of the Divine Army, Seated on a Peacock
Unknown
Ganga Period, about 12th century
Shaffron
Unknown
c. 1575
Distant View of Niagara Falls
Thomas Cole
1830
Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá)
Olowe of Ise
1910-14
Coronation Stone of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin
Aztec (Mexica)
1503
Saint George and the Dragon
Bernat Martorell
1434–35
E-10: English Dining Room of the Georgian Period, 1770-90
Narcissa Niblack Thorne
c. 1937
Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
Unknown
Chola period, about 10th/11th century
Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)
Vili
Probably early to mid-19th century
Coffin and Mummy of Paankhaenamun
Ancient Egyptian
Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, reign of Osorkon I (about 924–889 BCE)
A Young Lady with a Parrot
Rosalba Carriera
c. 1730
Ballet at the Paris Opéra
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
1877
After the Hurricane, Bahamas
Winslow Homer
1899
Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Reconstruction at the Art Institute of Chicago
Adler & Sullivan, Architects
1893/94 (original built) 1972 (original demolished) 1976/77 (reconstructed)
Bust of a Youth (Saint John the Baptist)
Francesco Mochi
1630/40
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