Art Institute of Chicago

A private, nonprofit art museum in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1879, it is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.

The Art Institute of Chicago is a private, nonprofit art museum in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1879, it is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Its building was constructed for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, and the Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano opened in 2009.

Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works includes Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks and Grant Wood’s American Gothic.