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The most famous painting is in Chicago, with Grant Wood's American Gothic and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.

I have seen it several times.

Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte is an impressive work. Seeing it in a book or online doesn't do it justice.

Particularly because, although there are smaller "study" versions as he worked up to it, the painting itself is 10 feet wide and most references don't include that context (at least not visually, they often list the numbers.)

This view in the wiki communicates the scale and setting in the museum. I have a photo further back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Isla...

Yes I happen to live two blocks from the Art Institute and have seen the painting dozens of times but it's still pretty impactful every time.

This movie scene from about 35 or 40 years ago could be a large reason he’s most famous for that particular painting:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ3O9NFJIS0

This is a classic American teenager movie.

Went to this exhibition in London two weeks ago and can highly recommend!

And yet the article does not show the Paris Park Painting?

It links to it, but no the article is about his seascapes.

And yet, he finished that hat.