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The '''Art Institute of Chicago''', founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and [[list of largest art museums|largest art museums]] in the world. It is based in the [[Art Institute of Chicago Building]] in [[Chicago]]'s [[Grant Park (Chicago)|Grant Park]]. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as [[Georges Seurat]]'s [[A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte|''A Sunday on La Grande Jatte'']], [[Pablo Picasso]]'s ''[[The Old Guitarist]]'', [[Edward Hopper]]'s ''[[Nighthawks (painting)|Nighthawks]]'', and [[Grant Wood]]'s ''[[American Gothic]]''. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research.