Impressionist painting of two girls on balcony, bright flower hat, knitting basket.

Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)

 Large painting of people in a crowded park, brushstrokes are dots.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)

 White plaster statue of woman with protruding compartments, each adorned with fur pompom.

Venus de Milo with Drawers

Salvador Dalí Spanish, 1904–1989

 A pastel drawing of woman in blue and pink dress with blue parrot.

A Young Lady with a Parrot

Rosalba Carriera Italian, 1673-1757

 A painting of a light-skinned man in a suit and glasses standing in profile and a light-skinned woman with chin-length gray hair and wearing a full-length bright-pink robe stand in a courtyard with various sculptures. Between them is a large stone on a plinth, behind them a green abstracted seated figure, and off to the right a totem pole.

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)

David Hockney English, born 1937

 Loosely painted image of an open-air train station. On the right, a parked train gives off an enormous plumb of white smoke, making the scene look as though it were full of clouds. A huddled mass of barely discernible people crowd around the train on both sides of the tracks. Blue, green, and gray tones dominate.

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

 Large marine landscape of boats on rough waves, storm clouds.

Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)

 An abstract steel sculpture of welded metal parts suggesting a human figure with long, thin legs and a bulkier shoulder area.

Hero Construction

Richard Hunt American, 1935-2023

 Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)

 Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

 A wooden carving of a male figure. The figure has a distinctive face, with oval-shaped eyes and mouth, and wears a cap on his head. His body is covered in various shells, bones, feathers, fabric, and metal nails, and he holds a mirror-sealed resin packet over his stomach.

Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)

Kongo: Vili Republic of the Congo Central Africa

 Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.

Ballet at the Paris Opéra

Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917

 A painting of strange and surreal scene in a desert landscape with mountains in the background. The scene features a giraffe that is on fire, disembodied forms and faces, and skeletal figures.

Inventions of the Monsters

Salvador Dalí Spanish, 1904–1989

 A sparsely painted waterside scene in dark tones with minimal ghostly shapes suggesting ships, yellow glitches of paint for light reflections, and the orb of an orange moon overhead.

Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)

 Large plaque of stone carved with animal and geometric hieroglyphs.

Coronation Stone of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin

Aztec (Mexica) Tenochtitlan, Mexico

 Abstract painting composed of small vertical dabs of multiple shades of blue with a small area of similar strokes of red, orange, and yellow in the upper right.

Starry Night and the Astronauts

Alma Thomas American, 1891–1978

 Abstract painting of several various-colored and overlapping rings and circles, looser brushstrokes drape across the circles like winding thread.

Untitled

Tanaka Atsuko Japanese, 1932-2005

 Vibrantly colored painting of nude woman lying, and man standing, in lush landscape.

Earthly Paradise

Pierre Bonnard French, 1867–1947

 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

Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)

 Large painted portrait of Mao wearing eyeshadow, blush, blue backdrop.

Mao

Andy Warhol American, 1928-1987

 A color woodblock print of a large crashing wave, looms over two narrow boats full of people. Mt Fuji in the background. There is a faint peach colored sky.

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)"

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 Japanese, 1760-1849

 Shallow and tall painting tightly focused on a black paneled door, a wreath of dying flowers hanging on it and a hand reaching to the doorknob from left.

That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)

Ivan Albright (American, 1897–1983)

 Blue and brown Cubist painting of Picasso with painterdz palette.

Portrait of Pablo Picasso

Juan Gris Spanish, 1887–1927

 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

Adler & Sullivan, original architects; American, 1883-1896 Vinci & Kenny, reconstruction architects; American, 1970-1977