Art Institute of Chicago – Worth it Places

The Lions of Michigan Avenue at the Art Institute of Chicago – Beaux-Arts architecture

African Art

Coffin and Mummy of Pa-ankh-en-Amun

Triptych Icon from Ethiopia

Olowe of Ise’s Yoruba Royal Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá)

Amerindian

Native North American, Mesoamerican, and Andean works

Cheyenne War Bonnet headdress

Coronation Stone of Motecuhzoma II (Stone of the Five Suns) of Tenochtitlan

Portrait Vessel of a Ruler of Moche, northern coast of Peru

American Art

Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks

Grant Wood’s American Gothic

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses

Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman bronze, coins, glass, jewelry, mosaics, pottery, and sculpture

Greek Hydria (Water Jar)

Etruscan Statuette of Herakles

Roman Statue of the Aphrodite of Knidos

Architecture and Design

Dankmar Adler and Louis H. Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room

Daniel Burnham’s Plate 49 from Plan of Chicago 1909

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Jacobs House, Middleton, Wisconsin, Perspective

Asian Art

China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, and the Near and Middle East

Katsushika Hokusai’s Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura) or The Great Wave from “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)”

Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)

Western Zhou Dynasty Bronze Cauldron

Contemporary Art

Andy Warhol’s Mao

Jackson Pollock’s Greyed Rainbow

Roy Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke with Spatter

European Applied Arts

European Paintings

(Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, etc.)

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies and Haystacks

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (French: 1884-1886) Georges Seurat

Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles

Roger and Angelica Mounted on the Hippogriff – Antoine-Louis Barye (French: c. 1840; bronze)

Modern Art

Pablo Picasso’s Old Guitarist

Salvador Dalí’s Inventions of the Monsters

Marc Chagall’s America Windows

Photography

Samuel J. Miller’s Frederick Douglass

Harry Callahan’s Chicago 1950

Prints and Drawings

Jacob Lawrence’s Free Clinic