Art Institute of Chicago Free Image Collection

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Georges Seurat, ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884’ (1884–8), oil on canvas, 81 3/4 x 121 1/4 inches (image courtesy Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection)

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Vincent van Gogh, ‘The Bedroom’ (1888), oil on canvas, 29 x 36 5/8 inches (image courtesy Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection)

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Edvard Munch, ‘The Girl by the Window’ (1893), oil on canvas, 38 × 25 3/4 inches (image courtesy Searle Family Trust and Goldabelle McComb Finn endowments; Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection)

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Katsushika Hokusai, ‘Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura)’, also known as the ‘Great Wave’, from the series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)” (c. 1830/33), Color woodblock print, 10 x 14 3/4 in (courtesy of Clarence Buckingham Collection)

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Charles White, ‘Harvest Talk' (1953), charcoal, Wolff’s carbon drawing pencil, and graphite, with stumping and erasing on ivory wood pulp laminate board, 661 x 992 mm (courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Hartman)

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Georgia O’Keeffe, “Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses” (1931), oil on canvas, 36 × 24 in. (image courtesy Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O’Keeffe)

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Piet Mondrian, ‘Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray’ (1921), oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm (image gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.)

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David Hockney, ‘American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman)’ (1968), acrylic on canvas (courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic G. Pick)

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Following in The Met’s footsteps, the Art Institute of Chicago is now enabling free high-res downloads of images portraying iconic artworks from their vast collection. A total of 53,438 photos encapsulate the online launch, from Vincent Van Gogh’s The Bedroom (1888) to Piet Mondrian’s Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray (1921). All of these images have been made available under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license that displays the works without any copyright. According to Colossal, the institute will continue to add more images in the near future.

Let us know your thoughts and then head over to the Art Institute of Chicago’s website to learn more. Elsewhere in art, here’s a behind the scenes look at TIME Magazine’s “Guns In America” cover shoot featuring the work of visual artist, JR.

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