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The Art Institute of Chicago Museum houses more than 300,000 works of art and includes among its treasures, American Gothic by Grant Wood, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and 33 works by Monet. The Department of American Art includes more than 1,000 paintings and sculptures from the 18th century to 1950 and nearly 2,500 decorative art objects from the 17th century to the present. Strengths in the collection include the Alfred Stieglitz Collection and significant groups of work by John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer. Modernist holdings include iconic images by Grant Wood, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper and the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997)

Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997)Excavation

Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997) was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Untitled XI, 1975

Thomas Hart Benton (American 1889 – 1975)Cotton Pickers, 1945

Arthur B. Carles (American, 1882-1952)Calla Lilies, 1922/25

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Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986)Blue and Green Music, 1919-21

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (American, 1885-1968) Shoe Shop, c. 1911

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (American, 1885-1968) Shop Girls, c. 1912

Everett Shinn (American, 1876-1953) The Hippodrome, London, 1902

George Hitchcock (American, 1850-1913) Flower Girl in Holland, 1887

Daniel Garber (American, 1880-1958) Hills of Byram, 1909

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) Nighthawks 1942

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) Nighthawks 1942

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) Nighthawks 1942

George Benjamin Luks (American, 1867-1933)The butcher cart 1901/092

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877-1943)Movements, 1913

Marsden HartleyStill Life No. 15, c. 1917

Peter Blume (American 1906 - 1992) The rock

Peter Blume (American 1906 - 1992) The rock (Details)

Gifford Beal (American, 1879-1956)Spotlight, 1915

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Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957) The Weaver, 1936

Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991) Woman with Bird Cage

Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991) María Izquierdo, 1932

Arthur B. Davies

(American, 1862-1928) Maya, Mirror of Illusions,

c. 1910

Ivan Albright (American Magic Realist Painter, 1897-1983)That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)1931/41

Jeff Koons (American, 1955), Triple Hulk Elvis I, 2007

Alexander Calder (American 1898-1976) Model for Flamingo, 1975

Alexander Calder (American 1898-1976) Model for Flamingo, 1975

Flamingo in the Federal Plaza, Chicago

Archibald J. Motley (American 1891-1981) Self-portrait

George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882-1925) Love of Winter, 1914

Doris Lee (American, 1905 -1983)Thanksgiving, c. 1935

Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929)

Herself, 1913

Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929) Himself, 1913

Grant Wood (American 1891-1942), American Gothic, 1930

John Henry Twachtman (American 1853-1901)

Road near Honfleur, 1883

John Henry Twachtman (American 1853-1901)Icebound 1889

John Henry Twachtman (American 1853-1901)The white bridge, 1895

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth), 1897

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) Portrait of Charles Deering 1917

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) Study from Life, 1891

John Singer Sargent

Madame Paul Escudier (Louise

Lefevre)1882

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) Mrs. Charles Deering (Marion Denison Whipple), 1888

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)By the Pond, c. 1898

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)The Barefooted Child,

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Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926)On a Balcony, 1878/79

Mary Cassatt (American,

1844-1926)The Child's Bath, 1893

Severin Roesen (American, 1815-1872) Still life with fruit, 1860

Severin Roesen (American, 1815-1872) An Abundance of Fruit, c. 1860

William Merritt Chase (American 1849-1916)Wind-swept sand, 1894

William Penhallow Henderson

(American, 1877-1943) After the Hurricane,

Bahamas, 1899

William Penhallow Henderson(American, 1877-1943)Querena, 1917

William Penhallow Henderson(American, 1877-1943)Ready for the Fiesta, 1920

William Penhallow Henderson(American, 1877-1943)Spring, Abiquiu, 1917/19

William Penhallow Henderson(American, 1877-1943)Spring, Casa Lucero, 1917/19

William Penhallow Henderson(American, 1877-1943)

North Woods Club, Adirondacks (The Interrupted Tete-a-Tete),

1892

William Penhallow Henderson(American, 1877-1943)

Peach Blossoms

Donald Colflesh (American b. 1932)

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