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Art Institute of Chicago

23,908 works

Barefoot peasant woman with a sickle gazes upward at a lark in an evening field, with a red sunset behind her.

The Song of the Lark

Jules Breton, 1884

Painting of a valley with a flat-topped mountain, sunlit clouds, a farmhouse, figures in a meadow, and a stream.

Catskill Mountains

George Inness, 1870

Painting of jockeys racing horses along a green track past a crowd of spectators with parasols and tall trees.

The Races at Longchamp

Édouard Manet, 1866

Dark landscape painting of a splintered, wind-bent tree on a rocky slope under a stormy sky with golden light.

Blasted Tree

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1850

Painting of an old wooden mill by a river with a waterfall, large trees, children, a cow and a dog in a green landscape.

The Old Mill

George Inness, 1849

Pointillist oil sketch of figures in a riverside park, with a man in a top hat and seated women on green grass.

Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884"

Georges Seurat, 1884

Painting of a snow-capped volcano above a waterfall, river, and palm trees, with a small canoe on the water.

View of Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church, 1857

Painting of sailboats on a calm inlet under a hazy sun, with rocky shore and marsh grass in the foreground.

York Harbor, Coast of Maine

Martin Johnson Heade, 1877

Painting of a veiled woman with a halo standing among white lilies in a garden, with a wheat field behind.

The Annunciation

George Hitchcock, 1887

Painting of a steam locomotive under a glass-roofed train station with figures on the platform and billowing steam.

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

Claude Monet, 1877

Muted seascape with a small white sailboat on the horizon and tiny figures of bathers along a pale sandy shore.

Coast Scene, Bathers

James McNeill Whistler, 1884-85

Painting of three rowboats pulled up on a grassy shore beside calm water, with a shed and houses in the distance.

Boats at Rest

Arthur Wesley Dow, c. 1895

Painting of a calm rocky coast with cliffs, boulders, and a lone figure in a rowboat under a hazy sun.

The Coast of Labrador

William Bradford, 1866

Two haystacks in a pale field at dusk, with rolling hills, trees and village roofs fading into soft haze.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)

Claude Monet, 1890-91

Hazy painted landscape of tall pines, a small figure in red, red-roofed houses in the distance, and a bird in the sky.

Early Morning, Tarpon Springs

George Inness, 1892

Muted grey-green night seascape with a pale gold moon, dark silhouetted boats, and faint shore lights on calm water.

Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Southampton Water

James McNeill Whistler, 1872

Painting of a watermill with a red tiled roof beside a pond, framed by large trees under a cloudy sky.

The Watermill with the Great Red Roof

Meindert Hobbema, c. 1665

Painting of a sunlit forest with tall oak trees, a winding path, heather, a small figure, and a pond under a blue sky.

Springtime

Théodore Rousseau, c. 1860

Oil painting of cows and sheep grazing in a green pasture beneath tall trees and a cloudy sky.

Pasture in Normandy

Constant Troyon, 1852

Oil painting of a prairie fire with smoke and red sky, a group with horses and a rifle-carrying hunter with dogs in grass.

The Prairie on Fire

Alvan Fisher, 1827

Painting of a sunset over dark forested hills and a still lake, with orange clouds and a small figure at the shore.

Mist Rising at Sunset in the Catskills

Sanford Robinson Gifford, c. 1861

Oil painting of a sailboat on rough sea near rocky shore, with breaking waves, gulls, and a storm approaching under heavy clo

Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower)

Thomas Doughty, 1835

Monet painting of two figures with a red parasol on a grassy clifftop overlooking a sea with sailboats under clouds.

Cliff Walk at Pourville

Claude Monet, 1882

Painting of a dark sea under a sky with pale scattered clouds and a low horizon line.

Violet and Silver - The Deep Sea

James McNeill Whistler, 1893

Vuillard painting of a rural valley with a church spire, seen through a cottage window with a woman inside.

Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods

Edouard Vuillard, 1899

Two wheat stacks in a field at sunset, with rolling hills and trees under a pink and green sky.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn)

Claude Monet, 1890-91

Painting of rounded pink and ochre hills under swirling clouds, with small adobe buildings at the base of the hills.

Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico

Marsden Hartley, 1920

Seated man in yellow robe writing among ancient ruins, with an eagle, obelisk, and arch in a wooded landscape.

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos

Nicolas Poussin, 1640

Painting of a blue bay with terracotta-roofed houses, smokestacks, and distant hills under a hazy sky.

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cézanne, c. 1885

Monet painting of a misty Seine branch with dark foliage at upper left fading into pale lilac and blue haze.

Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)

Claude Monet, 1897