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The Art Institute's collection of Modern and contemporary
art is one of the most comprehensive of any museum and includes
two icons of 20th-century American art: Grant Wood's American
Gothic and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.
The museum has a longstanding commitment to contemporary art, reflected
in the 1913 decision to exhibit the Armory Show, the largest Modern,
mostly European, art exhibition ever presented in America. The Art
Intitute’s extensive galleries present examples of abstraction
from the early years of the 20th century by Pablo Picasso, Henri
Matisse, and Vasily Kandinsky to challenging contemporary works
in a variety of media by artists such as Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman,
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