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.
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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
Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)
Chimú
1100–1470
Flower Clouds
Odilon Redon
c. 1903
Frederick Douglass
Samuel J. Miller
1847-52
Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c.
Raphaelle Peale
1822
Corpus of Christ, from the Altarpiece of the Crucifixion
Jacques de Baerze
1391–99
Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin
Spanish
1396
Portrait Bust of a Woman
Ancient Roman
Mid–2nd century
Triptych Icon
Unknown
Late 17th century
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Giovanni di Paolo
c. 1455
Cabin in the Cotton
Horace Pippin
c. 1931–37
Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet
Ancient Egyptian
Middle Kingdom, early Dynasty 12, about 1956–1877 BCE
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