The Art Institute of Chicago houses some of the most celebrated
paintings from the nineteenth century to the present. Included in this
collection are numerous masterpieces of realism, Impressionism,
Post-Impressionism, Surrealism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and
contemporary art. Today a number of these paintings are revered as icons
of modern culture, emblems of the inspired experimentation that has
taken place on both sides of the Atlantic, and around the world.