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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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Caillebotte Paris Street Rainy Day 1877
Gustave Caillebotte’s Paris Street; Rainy Day | 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

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

Picasso's Old Guitarist,
Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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

Nightlife
Archibald John Motley Jr.’s Nightlife | 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

Van Gogh Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh’s The Bedroom | Art Institute Essentials Tour

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

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

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

Black-and-white photo of a young African American man sitting on a chair in a brightly lit room, the walls covered in strings of lights. He sits between two record players and pours something from a bottle onto a plate of food.
Parks

A figure sits in a colorfully stripedchair facing away from the viewer. Only their head and shoulders are visible as is a black floor. There are no other indications of context; the rest of the composition is undecorated negative space.
Noda Tetsuya

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

Design drawing of a large house with multiple levels.
Ando

1978.404 Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva Composition
Vieira da Silva

A close-up view of a black and red vase showing a central figure looking back over her shoulder at a mirror another figure is holding.
Syriskos

E23681 Press
Tawney

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Rethinking the Collection
A Physical and Spiritual Reunion

Curator Tao Wang describes the process of reuniting this triad of Buddha and bodhisattvas, which are among the finest Tang stone sculptures in any American museum.

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