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A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Stamnos (Mixing Jar), about 450 BCE

Chicago Painter

A work made of colored pencil over traces of graphite on cream wove paper.

3 Star Cunts, 1969

Judy Chicago

A drawing from street level of a busy plaza, a multistory black glass building rising above it, flanked at the left by a light-colored building with many columns and at right by other city buildings.

Chicago Civic Center: Perspective View of Plaza, 1963

Chicago Civic Center Architects

A work made of earthenware and glaze.

Vase, 1917–32

Chicago Crucible Company

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Hydria (Water Jar), about 450 BCE

Chicago Painter

A bronze lion, deep green and muscular, looks out in the distance from its pedestal in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lion (One of a Pair, South Pedestal), 1893

Edward Kemeys

Painting of a woman and an older white man holding a pitchfork, both seen from the waist up. They stand side by side with stern expressions, in front of a white house with a peaked roof.

American Gothic, 1930

Grant Wood

Black-and-white photograph of six trees in the snow. The tall black trees with thin, spiny branches contrast with the light gray, empty sky, and the stark white ground covered in fresh snow.

Chicago, 1950

Harry Callahan

A work made of oil on canvas.

Alice, 1892

William Merritt Chase

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

A work made of color laser copier artworks (20).

Colors, June 1987

University of Illinois at Chicago. School of Art and Design

A grand, double-height room with wood paneling, stenciled wall patterns, four hexagonal columns, and an interior balcony with guardrail at left.

Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Reconstruction at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1893/94 (original built) 1972 (original demolished) 1976/77 (reconstructed)

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

Horizontal painting in pastel tones of a series of abstract clouds in a gridlike formation like loose bricks, larger at the bottom of the painting and receding away at a horizon line near the top of the painting. Behind them, a blue sky gets progressively lighter. At the horizon line is a loose pink gradient that progresses to white and returns to blue at the very top of the work.

Sky above Clouds IV, 1965

Georgia O'Keeffe

Photograph of interior of large art gallery, visitors stand and look at paintings.

Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago, 1990

Thomas Struth

A work made of aquatint, with etching in brown and hand-coloring, on cream wove paper.

N. W. Corner of LaSalle and Randolph, Chicago, Showing Court House Square in the Year 1864, published April 1928 (1864 depicted)

Raoul Varin

A work made of gelatin silver print.

"Inez", Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, 1947

Harold Allen

Portrait of a woman in white with a bonnet perched on an architectural feature painting something to her right, a spouting water fountain, greenery, and a an ornate, low white fence behind her. Beside her, a man leans back, eying the canvas.

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907

John Singer Sargent

Painting of a young woman outdoors in a light purple dress and head covering with a wooden yoke around her neck suspending large bundles of brightly colored flowers. She stands on a path adjacent to a river, facing the wall of a red-brick house at right.

Flower Girl in Holland, 1887

George Hitchcock

Woodcut print of a street scene with storefronts and awnings and a crowd of people gathered in front.

Maxwell Street, Chicago, from Yiddish Motifs, 1926

Todros Geller

A work made of oil on canvas.

Michigan Avenue with View of the Art Institute, 1984

Richard Estes