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Old August 17th, 2013, 12:49 PM
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Default Re: Chicago Art Institute Famous Works

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is an encyclopedic art museum. It features a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art and also include American art, Old Masters, European and American decorative arts, Asian art, modern and contemporary art, and architecture and industrial and graphic design. This school and gallery founded in 1866.

Famous works of the American collection are:
Mary Cassatt's the Child's Bath,
Grant Wood's American Gothic,
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

Paintings
El Greco, Saint Martin and the Beggar, c. 1597-1600
Antoine Watteau, Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering), 1718-1721
Eugène Delacroix, Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha, 1827
Édouard Manet, Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, 1864-1865
Édouard Manet, Seascape Calm Weather, 1864-1865
Édouard Manet, The Philosopher, (Beggar with Oysters), 1864–1867
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1876-1877
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, By the Water, 1880
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881
Jules Breton, Song of the Lark, 1884
Paul Cézanne, The Bay of Marseilles, view from L'Estaque, 1885
Edgar Degas, The Millinery Shop, 1885
Georges-Pierre Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884–1886
Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait, 1887
Vincent van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1888
Claude Monet, Wheatstacks (End of Summer), 1890-1891
Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples, c.1890s
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892
Paul Gauguin, Why are you angry? (No te aha oe Riri), 1896
Winslow Homer, After the Hurricane, 1899
Odilon Redon, Sita, 1903
Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903
Edgar Degas, Woman at Her Toilette, c. 1900-1905
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1906
Juan Gris, Portrait of Picasso, 1912
Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Football Player--Color Masses in the 4th Dimension, 1915
Amadeo Modigliani, Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1916
Grant Wood, American Gothic 1930

Most highlights from the collection
Ancient Greek Amphora depicts Herakles killing the Nemean Lion, with Iolaus and Nemea on the left and Athena and Hermes on the right. 550 - 525 BC.
An Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), tomb sculpture of a pixiu (or chimera) creature
Illuminated Manuscript page from a Book of Hours, c. 1440/45
One of the Thorne Miniature Rooms, c. 1930s
Peaces from pocelain collection in Art Institute of Chicago
Museum hall

Address:
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave,
Chicago, IL, United States ‎
Ph: +1 312-443-3600 ‎

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