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

Joan Mitchell City Landscape Master — Joan Mitchell’s City Landscape | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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

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

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

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A vibrant quilt depicting seven schoolchildren dressed in many different colors. The children stand together in a group, and one boy, a member of the Safety Patrol, stands in front with his arms outstretched in a protective gesture. — Bisa

Butler

Green water lilies with pink and purple flowers cover the surface of a reflective pond. A Japense-style wood bridge curves over the pond, and various other trees and forms of vegetation grow alongside the pond and over the bridge. Reflections of trees and plants mingle with the forms of the water lilies on the surface of the pond. — Claude

Monet

Gideon — Charles

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Black-and-white etching of a man and woman, Adam and Eve, nude in the garden of Eden. — Albrecht

Dürer

Red Hills With Flowers — Georgia

O'Keeffe

Hunter Kariudo — Daidō

Moriyama

Rounded jar with intricate decorations — Ampersand Painter

Black ink drawing of a plant with an inscription in Korean. — Kim Eung-won

Painting of two men in a boat at sea catching herring with a net. The sea is rough and dark. — Winslow

Homer

The cover of a catalog or book. The bottom half is in black and white. Two men wearing hats stand with their back to us, facing a wall covered in maps and images that seems to bend. There are two men near the wall in the distance. Above the wall is a dark blue background. — Ladislav

Sutnar

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The Life of an Artist
Eldzier Cortor through the Eyes of His Son

Michael Cortor shares memories and insights about his artist father with curators Sarah Kelly Oehler and Mark Pascale.

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