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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

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, California, 1948

Ansel Adams

Abstract painting, black background covered with flicks and smudges of white and other colors.

Greyed Rainbow, 1953

Jackson Pollock

Abstract painting of bright rectangles in various sizes, in shades of light and dark orange as well as yellow, blue, lime green, and pink. A small white, amorphous shape sits at top center.

The Golden Wall, 1961

Hans Hofmann

Cubist painting of woman, bright yellow, green, purple colors.

The Red Armchair, December 16, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Abstract painting in various bright colors—yellow, blue, red, green, orange, pink—with lines indicating building-like structures as well as canons in the lower right corner.

Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913

Vasily Kandinsky

Painting of a woman in white dress with a baby in her lap.

Mother and Child, 1921

Pablo Picasso

Geometric landscape painting filled with lush green stylized trees, leaves, and ferns, with a high horizon line. A patch of red leaves at lower right. At lower left, two black-skinned figures stand in front of a small rocky waterfall beside two antelope-like animals.

The Waterfall, 1910

Henri Rousseau

A recumbent, full-figured nude rendered in pink and gray geometric shapes, her hands above her head, on a gray and blue ground, a brown tree with sparse needles behind her.

Nude under a Pine Tree, January 20, 1959

Pablo Picasso

Painting of vibrantly colored shapes and lines intersecting and overlapping.

Painting with Green Center, 1913

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of black and red ink on linen.

Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Basement Plan, 1909/11

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of black and red ink on linen.

Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Multiple Views, 1909–1911

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of tempera on panel.

Daniel Saving Susanna, the Judgment of Daniel, and the Execution of the Elders, c. 1500

Master of Apollo and Daphne

A tall, spindly human figure in rough bronze with an elongated torso and arms and dramatically long, thin, kneeless legs appears to be walking mid-stride, both feet on the ground but quite far apart

Walking Man II, 1960

Alberto Giacometti

Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Gustave Caillebotte

A work made of black and red ink on linen.

Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Ceiling Plan, 1909/11

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of black and red ink on linen.

Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Section, 1909–1911

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Stronghold, c. 1912

Amadeo de Souza Cardoso

A work made of oil on canvas.

Daisies, 1939

Henri Matisse

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