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{{Infobox museum
| logo = File:Art Institute of Chicago logo.svg
| logo_size = 150px
| name = Art Institute of Chicago
| image = Art Institute of Chicago (51575570710).jpg
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| caption = The Art Institute of Chicago seen from [[Michigan Avenue (Chicago)|Michigan Avenue]]
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| collection size = 300,000 works
| director = James Rondeau
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| website = {{url|https://www.artic.edu|artic.edu}}
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The Art Institute's American Art collection contains some of the best-known works in the American canon, including [[Edward Hopper]]'s ''[[Nighthawks (painting)|Nighthawks]]'', [[Grant Wood]]'s ''[[American Gothic]]'', and [[Mary Cassatt]]'s ''[[The Child's Bath]]''. The collection ranges from colonial silver to modern and contemporary paintings.
The museum purchased ''Nighthawks'' in 1942 for $3,000;<ref name="artic.edu">{{cite web| url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/hopper/nighthawks| title=Nighthawks| website=Art Institute of Chicago}}</ref><ref>The sale was recorded by Josephine Hopper as follows, in volume II, p. 95 of her and Edward's journal of his art: "May 13, '42: Chicago Art Institute - 3,000 + return of Compartment C in exchange as part payment. 1,000 - 1/3 = 2,000." See Deborah Lyons, ''Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work'' New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997, p. 63.</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/museums/art-institute-of-chicago.htm#highlights| title=Art Institute of Chicago| website=visual-arts-cork.com}}</ref> its acquisition "launched" the painting into "immense popular recognition".<ref name="Levin">{{cite journal| year=1996| title=Edward Hopper's ''Nighthawks'', Surrealism, and the War| journal=Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies| volume=22| issue=2| pages=180–195 at 189, 193–194| doi=10.2307/4104321| last=Levin| first=Gail| jstor=4104321}}</ref> Considered an "icon of American culture",<ref name="artic.edu" /><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/acloserlooka.shtm| title=Edward Hopper| year=2006| publisher=National Gallery of Art| work=A Closer Look| access-date=2013-04-30| archive-date=2013-03-12| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312194016/http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/hopper/acloserlooka.shtm| url-status=dead}}</ref> ''
=== Ancient and Byzantine ===
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===Modern Wing===
[[File:Art Institute Modern Wing Night.jpg|thumb|Art Institute of Chicago Modern Wing]]
On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history.<ref name="architecutre">{{cite news| title=Renzo Piano Embraces Chicago| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/arts/design/14muse.html| first=Nicolai| last=Ourossof| date=May 13, 2009| newspaper=The New York Times| access-date=2011-06-13| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513210441/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/arts/design/14muse.html| archive-date=2011-05-13| url-status=live| df=mdy}}</ref> The {{convert|264000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} addition, designed by [[Renzo Piano]], makes the Art Institute the second-largest museum in the US.<ref name=secondlargest/> The [[architect of record]] in the City of Chicago for this building was Interactive Design.<ref>{{cite web| title=The Modern Wing At The Art Institute Of Chicago| website=Interactive Design Architects| url=https://interactivedesignarchitects.com/portfolio-post/the-modern-wing-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago/| access-date=2020-08-06| language=en-US}}</ref> The Modern Wing is home to the museum's collection of early 20th-century European art, including [[Pablo Picasso]]'s ''[[The Old Guitarist]]'', [[Henri Matisse]]'s ''Bathers by a River'', and [[René Magritte]]'s ''[[Time Transfixed]].'' The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection of Surrealist art includes the largest public display of [[Joseph Cornell]]'s works (37 boxes and collages).<ref>{{cite news |title=Joseph Cornell's Works At The Art Institute |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-03-23/entertainment/9703230020_1_joseph-cornell-utopia-parkway-art-institute |last=Seaman |first=Donna |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=March 23, 1997}}</ref> The Wing also houses [[contemporary art]] from after 1960; new photography, video media, architecture and design galleries including original renderings by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] and [[Bruce Goff]]; temporary exhibition space; shops and classrooms;
In 2009, the Modern Wing won at the Chicago Innovation Awards.<ref>{{ cite news |title=2009 Chicago Innovation Award winners |url=http://www.chicagoinnovationawards.com/past-winners/2009 |website=Chicago Innovation Awards |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311044420/http://www.chicagoinnovationawards.com/past-winners/2009 |archive-date=2010-03-11}}</ref>
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== Looted art ==
In 1996, heirs to Jewish art collectors Louise and [[Friedrich Gutmann]], who died in Nazi concentration camps, sued museum trustee [[Daniel C. Searle|Daniel Searle]] for the return of Edgar Degas painting's, ''Landscape with Smokestacks''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-01-07 |title=COLLECTOR SUED OVER NAZI VICTIMS' ART |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/07/19/collector-sued-over-nazi-victims-art/aa497d49-f8c3-4ce6-99a9-cc82847760b3/ |access-date=2024-03-09 |
==In popular culture==
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==See also==
{{Portal bar|Chicago|Art}}
* [[American Academy of Art]]
* [[Bessie Bennett]], early 20th century Curator of Decorative Art
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