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The Art Institute
of Chicago

Guarded by iconic lions and up a flight of grand stone steps is the
Midwest’s largest art museum. Housed in a massive Beaux-Arts
edifice with an impressive Modern Wing by Renzo Piano, the
Institute has some 260,000 works from around the globe, and is
famous for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections.

Nighthawks
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One of the best-
known images in 20th-
century American art,
this 1942 painting (left)
by Realist Edward Hopper
has a melancholy quality.
It includes a depiction of
fluore scent lighting, new
at the time to US cities.
The Old Guitarist
Acrobats at the
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Cirque Fernando
A young, struggling Picasso
Children were often the subjects of painted this tortured 1903 portrait
Renoir’s sunny paintings: this luminous during his Blue Period. It reflected his
1879 work shows a circus owner’s grief over a friend’s suicide and was a
daughters taking a bow after their act. precursor to his own style of Cubism.
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Stacks of
Gothic Wheat Series
Grant Wood borrowed From 1890 to 1891,
from the detailed style of Monet painted 30 views of
Flemish Renaissance art the hay stacks that stood
to create this painting outside his house in
(1930). Though perceived France. This museum has
by many as satirical, six, which illustrate the
the painting (right) Impres sionist doctrine of
celebrates rural cap turing the fleeting
American values. effects of light in nature.
NEED TO KNOW free; free adm 1st and 2nd • Don’t miss the
MAP L4 • 111 S. Michigan Wed of month, 5–8pm Thu, reconstruction of the
Ave • “L” Station: Adams 5–9pm summer, and Feb 1893 Stock Exchange
• DA
(Green, Orange, Purple, Trading Room.
Brown & Pink lines), • Terzo Piano (Modern Museum Guide
Monroe (Blue & Red lines) Wing) is perfect for a
The Art Institute is the
• 312-443-3600 fine-dining lunch with city second-largest art museum
• www.artic.edu
views, or cross over to in the US. Locations of
Open 10:30am–5pm GePaDe Caffe (60 E. Adams works and accessibility of
Mon–Fri (to 8pm Thu); St.) for great panini. specific galleries are subject
10:30am–5pm Sat & Sun • Join a free, hour-long to change; if there is a
Adm: adults $25; students, introductory tour. Meet in particular work you want
seniors and children 14 yrs gallery 100 (noon daily, and to see, check in advance to
and older $19; under-14s 2pm Tue, Wed, and Fri). ensure it is on view.

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