Arts of the Americas
Art Institute of Chicago · 2,685 artworks
Spanning over 5,000 years, this collection includes pre-Columbian, Native American, Spanish Colonial, and American art. Iconic works include Grant Wood's American Gothic and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.
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Featured Artworks
Love of Winter
George Wesley Bellows
1914
For Sunday's Dinner
William Michael Harnett
1888
The Child's Bath
Mary Cassatt
1893
Cabin in the Cotton
Horace Pippin
c. 1931–37
Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket
Eastman Johnson
1876
The Two Disciples at the Tomb
Henry Ossawa Tanner
c. 1906
The Herring Net
Winslow Homer
1885
A City Park
William Merritt Chase
c. 1887
Bar-room Scene
William Sidney Mount
1835
Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
Thomas Eakins
1899
Croquet Scene
Winslow Homer
1866
Richard Bill
John Smibert
1733
Storage Jar with Horizontal Bands of Interlocking Scrolls
Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)
875–1130
Ritual Cache
Salado
1300–1400
Cornelius Allerton
Ammi Phillips
1821–22
Vessel with Dancing Maize Gods
Aj Maxam
780–810 CE
Coronation Stone of Moctezuma Xocoyotzin
Aztec (Mexica)
1503
Pitcher
Edward C. Moore
1878
Cabinet
Herter Brothers
1878–80
Two-Handled Covered Cup
Cornelius Kierstede
1698–1720
Machinist
Emma Stebbins
c. 1859
Machinist's Apprentice
Emma Stebbins
c. 1859
Portrait Vessel
Moche
600–700 CE
Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth
Martin Johnson Heade
1885–95
Sideboard
Daniel Pabst
1868–80
Lamp with “Hanging Head Dragonfly” Shade and “Mosaic and Turtleback” Base
Clara Driscoll
By 1906
The Freedman
John Quincy Adams Ward
Modeled 1862–63
The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)
Frederic Remington
1890
The Bronco Buster
Frederic Remington
Modeled 1895, cast 1899
Distant View of Niagara Falls
Thomas Cole
1830
View of Cotopaxi
Frederic Edwin Church
1857
The Home of the Heron
George Inness
1893
Early Morning, Tarpon Springs
George Inness
1892
General Andrew Jackson
William Rush
1819
Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan
Joshua Johnson
c. 1805
Bureau Table
John Townsend
c. 1770
Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)
John Singleton Copley
c. 1764
Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy
James McNeill Whistler
1894
Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water
James McNeill Whistler
1872
Movement
Marsden Hartley
1913
Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual
Teotihuacan
500–600 CE
At Mouquin's
William James Glackens
1905
Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)
Chimú
1100–1470
The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy
John Singer Sargent
1907
Icebound
John Henry Twachtman
c. 1889
Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c.
Raphaelle Peale
1822
Mountain Brook
Albert Bierstadt
1863
Bottle with Incised Geometric Figure
Paracas
650–150 BCE