St. George on white horse, piercing green, gold dragon

Saint George and the Dragon

Bernat Martorell (Spanish, active from 1427–died 1452)

 Abstract painting with beige background, lines creating sharp angles, minimal color.

Excavation

Willem de Kooning American, born Netherlands, 1904–1997

 Dark stone sculpture of Buddha sitting cross-legged, hands in lap, eyes closed.

Buddha Shakyamuni Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra)

India Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu

 Blue and brown Cubist painting of Picasso with painterdz palette.

Portrait of Pablo Picasso

Juan Gris Spanish, 1887–1927

 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

 Painting of bedroom, blue walls, green window, tan bed, red bedding.

The Bedroom

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)

 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

Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)

 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)

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

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906)

 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

 Painting of crucifixion, surrounded by scenes of Nazi violence against the Jewish community.

White Crucifixion

Marc Chagall Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985

 Still life painting of dead waterfowl and vegetables in windowsill.

Still Life with Game Fowl

Juan Sánchez Cotán (Spanish, 1560–1627)

 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

 Painting of figures construction project amid smoky destruction, middle is pink crater.

The Rock

Peter Blume (American, born Smorgon, Russian Empire, now Belarus, 1906–1992)

 Large sculpture of empty square frame with a connected steel tube looping outward.

Hang Up

Eva Hesse American, born Germany, 1936–1970

 A bronze sculpture of the Hindu divinity Shiva. Shiva, who has two pairs of arms, is depicted dancing inside of a circular ring. Balancing on one leg, Shiva gestures his arms to the side and front, as his loose locks of hair flow behind him.

Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)

India Tamil Nadu

 Painting of four nude women composed of geometric shapes, against patterned background.

Bathers by a River

Henri Matisse French, 1869–1954

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

The Red Armchair

Pablo Picasso Spanish, active France, 1881–1973

 The outer hard case of an Egyptian mummy is painted with a gold face, a blue geometric wig, a colorful bird across the chest, and various scenes across the lower portion featuring figures of gods and goddesses.

Coffin and Mummy of Paankhaenamun

Egyptian; Thebes (now Luxor), Egypt

 Horizontal painting in pastel tones of a series of abstract clouds in a gridlike formation like loose bricks, larger at the bottom of the painting and receding away at a horizon line near the top of the painting. Behind them, a blue sky gets progressively lighter. At the horizon line is a loose pink gradient that progresses to white and returns to blue at the very top of the work.

Sky above Clouds IV

Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)

 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

 Painting of a performance inside a circus ring. A man wearing a suit holds a whip in his hand and looks towards a woman with red hair riding a gray horse and wearing a green dress. Audience members wearing suits and top hats watch from red and white benches on the side.

Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)

 Large plaque of stone carved with animal and geometric hieroglyphs.

Coronation Stone of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin

Aztec (Mexica) Tenochtitlan, Mexico

 Painting of a crowd of well-dressed light-skinned people in an open, snowy field surrounded by large rolling hills. At center a woman in a bright-yellow coat and skirt holds the hand of a child in red, who pulls to turn her toward the others.

Love of Winter

George Wesley Bellows American, 1882–1925