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Art Institute of Chicago

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Art Institute of Chicago museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. Among its famous collections are those of early Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and Flemish paintings, including works by El Greco, Rembrandt, and Hals. The Institute is rich in 19th-century American and French paintings; particularly well known is La Grande Jatte by Seurat. Modern American and European paintings... Read more
Art Institute of Chicago
...Georges Seurat 's A Sunday Afternoon on La Grand Jatte—1884 (1884–86), Grant Wood 's American Gothic (1930), and Edward Hopper 's Nighthawks (1942). Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Read more
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