Monday was the Art Institute, largely because they are closed Tuesdays, the Field Museum (our other museum stop) is open every day and we were headed home Wednesday. Our breakfasts so far had been at a little spot next to our hotel. Average muffins and poor service so we went on an online search. I found the Good Eating Company a few blocks from the hotel. WAY better! And they had good Americanos. We ended up eating there Tuesday and Wednesday, our last day in Chicago.
The Art Institute had a special Freida Kahlo exhibit for an extra $5 so we opted for that. Interesting, but glad we only paid $5.
What impressed me the most was Van Gogh’s self portrait (small, about 12 x 18 inches), Wood’s American Gothic (also small), and Seurat’s La Grand Jatte. I had studied these in college, but to see them in person was awesome. La Grand Jatte is 10 x 12 FEET in size. Impressive use of the equivalent of late 1800s pixelating.
So many other things we saw there; we could have spent two or three days and not seen it all.
