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Located in downtown Chicago, the Art Institute is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe.

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Buddha Shakyamuni Seated In Meditation — Buddha Shakyamuni | Art Institute Essentials Tour

1977.938 American Windows — Marc Chagall’s America Windows | Art Institute Essentials Tour

Seurat's pointilist masterpiece, showing crowds of Parisians enjoying the day at the Grande Jatte. — Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte | Art Institute Essentials Tour

Nightlife — Archibald John Motley Jr.’s Nightlife | Art Institute Essentials Tour

A carved stone tablet with graphic and figurative details. — Aztec Coronation Stone | Art Institute Essentials Tour

A painting looking in the window an old-fashioned diner at night where three customers sit at the counter and a soda jerk bends behind the counter working. — Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks | Art Institute Essentials Tour

A carved and subtly colored wooden sculpture of a seated man wearing an elaborate headdress. A larger woman stands behind him and two much smaller figures at his feet. — Olowe of Ise’s Veranda Post | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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Waterlilies with pink blossoms dot the surface of pond that also reflects nearby trees. — Monet

Man and woman dancing amidst a crowd of people at the Garage. — Ferrill

Hokusai Great Wave — Hokusai

A print of a young African American person wrapped in a cloth and with their head titled upward and eyes closed. A pink shell floats above the person's head on a bright blue gradient background. — White

El Greco Square 1 — El Greco

Red Hills With Flowers — O'Keeffe

Wright Side — Wright

2000.740 Gladys Nilsson — Nilsson

A vessel with water lilies and delicate inscriptions painted by Ah Maxam. — Ah Maxam

E23681 Press — Tawney

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The Weaver: A Story Best Told by Hand

The life, not of the painter, but of the subject of a painting: the Indigenous artist and cultural historian Luz Jiménez.

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