Public domainAmerican Gothic
Grant Wood · 1930
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Nighthawks, American Gothic and Seurat's La Grande Jatte are all in one building. Few museums hold three images this famous.
What to see
The Art Institute holds several of the most recognised paintings in America, and most visits are built around finding them.
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Seurat worked on it for two years; the Art Institute built a room around it.
Nighthawks
Hopper’s 1942 diner, bought by the museum within months of being painted.
American Gothic
Grant Wood · 1930
Grant Wood’s farmer and daughter, painted in 1930 and never lent for long.
The Thorne Miniature Rooms
Sixty-eight interiors built at one inch to the foot.
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte · 1877
Caillebotte’s 1877 intersection, life-size and wet underfoot.
Also at the museum, not yet free to picture
The Old Guitarist
Picasso’s Blue Period, painted in Barcelona in 1903.
Artists
The Art Institute has collected since 1879 and released more than fifty thousand images under CC0. These are the artists you can stream on Momentable.
German · 1471–1528 · German Renaissance
France · 1841–1919 · Impressionism
United States · 1891–1942
France · 1848–1894
French · 1864–1901 · Post-impressionism
Japanese · 1760–1849 · Japonisme
American · 1844–1926 · Impressionism
French · 1839–1906 · Post-impressionism
Artworks
Indigence et honneur
Hilaire Ledru · 1804
Statue of a Young Satyr Wearing a Theater Mask of Silenos
1
Chocolate Jar with Iron-Locked Lid
1700
Page of Shikasta Nasta'liq Calligraphy with Floral Margins
Abd al-Majid Taleqani · 1767
Hartwell Memorial Window
1917
The Acorn and the Pumpkin
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1881
Landscape with Smokestacks
Edgar Degas · 1890
The Leap of the Rabbit
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso · 1911
Daria, or Maternal Terror
Pauline Auzou · 1810
Double Portrait of Jean-François Heurtier and His Wife Marie-Victoire Jobbé in Profile
Sophie Regnault · 1801
Rocks at Port-Goulphar, Belle-Île
1886
Sources
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