My family has been taking me to art museums since I was very young. I remember going on adventures with my grandparents to downtown Chicago where we’d go to the Art Institute of Chicago, which I think was my first art museum.
Of course, when I was young I didn’t have quite the appreciation for art that I have now. When I was in college, my love of art really blossomed. One of the biggest things in my apartments in college was a framed poster of Hopper’s Nighthawks–which, of course, was one of the most famous paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. One of my favorite movies of all time is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which also features a trip to the Art Institute. Luckily, the Art Institute was within driving distance of my dorm rooms and my college apartments, so I was able to visit fairly often.
Soon after starting to record my bucket list, as I was such a fan of art, I continuously found myself adding art museums to the list, but couldn’t remember what pieces of art were in which location(s). As I began to dream about seeing all of the art on the list, I recorded a separate, painting-specific bucket list where I started to keep track of my favorite paintings, and where and when I had seen them. I’ve replicated that list here. There’s about 100 paintings / works of art here, though I may add more as time goes on and I discover more that I must see.
(Last updated 1/16/2024)
Bucket List of Art
| Seen? | Artist Name | Painting Name | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caravaggio | David with the Head of Goliath | Galleria Borghese, Rome | |
| Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Apollo and Daphne | Galleria Borghese, Rome | |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Vitruvian Man | Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice (Rarely displayed) | |
| Henri Matisse | Dance 2 | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia | |
| Vincent Van Gogh | White House at Night | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia | |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Sorrowing Old Man ('At Eternity's Gate') | Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Cafe Terrace at Night | Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Doctor Gachet (First Version) | Location Unknown | |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Trinquetaille Bridge | Location Unknown | |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Railway Bridge | Location Unknown | |
| x | Johannes Vermeer | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands |
| x | Rembrandt van Rijn | The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp | Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands |
| x | Paul Cezanne | Card Players | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | A Wheatfield with Cypresses | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
| x | Katsushika Hokusai | The Great Wave | Multiple Locations. I first saw this (and actually, 2 different prints of it) on 1/14/2024 at the Young V&A, London, England |
| Edvard Munch | The Scream | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway | |
| Edouard Manet | Olympia | Musée d'Orsay | |
| x | James McNeill Whistler | Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, also known as Whistler's Mother | Musée d'Orsay |
| x | Paul Cezanne | Card Players | Musée d'Orsay |
| x | Pierre Auguste Renoir | Moulin de la Galette | Musée d'Orsay |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Self Portrait | Musée d'Orsay |
| Vincent Van Gogh | The Siesta | Musée d'Orsay | |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | The Church at Auvers / View from the Chevet | Musée d'Orsay |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | The Italian Woman | Musée d'Orsay |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Starry Night Over the Rhone | Musée d'Orsay |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Portrait of Dr. Gachet | Musée d'Orsay |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Bedroom in Arles (Third Version) | Musée d'Orsay | |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Eugene Boch | Musée d'Orsay | |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Dance Hall in Arles | Musée d'Orsay | |
| Eugene Delacroix | Liberty Leading the People | Musee du Louvre, Paris, France | |
| x | Georges de La Tour | Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds | Musee du Louvre, Paris, France |
| x | Georges de La Tour | St. Joseph | Musee du Louvre, Paris, France |
| x | Leonardo da Vinci | The Mona Lisa | Musee du Louvre, Paris, France |
| Caravaggio | David Victorious over Goliath | Museo del Prado, Madrid | |
| Diego Velázquez | The Family of Felipe IV, or Las Meninas | Museo del Prado, Madrid | |
| Francisco Goya | The Third of May 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid | Museo del Prado, Madrid | |
| Francisco Goya | The Clothed Maja and The Nude Maja | Museo del Prado, Madrid | |
| Francisco Goya | Saturn devouring his son | Museo del Prado, Madrid | |
| Francisco Goya | The Colossus | Museo del Prado, Madrid | |
| Pablo Picasso | Guernica | Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid | |
| Salvador Dali | Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening | Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid | |
| x | Gilbert Stuart | George Washington | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| x | J. M. W. Turner | The Slave Ship | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| x | Paul Gauguin | Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| x | Rembrandt van Rijn | Artist in his Studio | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Joseph Roulin (The Postman) | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| x | Windslow Homer | The Fog Warning | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| x | Edward Hopper | House by the Railroad (Seen at the Whitney in a special exhibition) | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| x | Edward Hopper | Gas (Seen at the Whitney in a special exhibition) | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| El Greco | View of Toledo | Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| x | Henri Matisse | Dance (I) | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| x | Pablo Picasso | Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| x | Salvador Dali | The Persistence of Memory | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | The Starry Night | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| x | Georges Seurat | Bathers at Asnieres | National Gallery, London |
| x | Titan | Bacchus and Ariadne | National Gallery, London |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | A Wheatfield with Cypresses | National Gallery, London |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Van Gogh's Chair | National Gallery, London |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Sunflowers (Fourth Version) | National Gallery, London |
| Vincent Van Gogh | The Sunflowers (Third Version) | Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany | |
| Vincent Van Gogh | The Red Vineyard | Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia | |
| x | Rembrandt van Rijn | The Night Watch | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Caravaggio | Crucifixion of St. Peter | Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome | |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | The Last Supper | Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan | |
| x | Paul Gauguin | Vision after the Sermon | Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| x | Sir Henry Raeburn | The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch | Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| x | Mark Rothko | Black on Maroon | Tate Modern, London, England |
| x | Georges Seurat | Models | The Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, PA |
| x | Henri Matisse | The Dance II | The Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, PA |
| x | Henri Matisse | The Joy of Life | The Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, PA |
| x | Paul Cezanne | The Card Players | The Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, PA |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin | The Barnes Foundation, Lower Merion, PA |
| x | Mark Rothko | The Rothko Room | The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
| x | Pierre Auguste Renoir | Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) | The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Entrance to the Public Garden in Arles | The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
| x | Giotto | The Scrovegni Chapel (i.e. - The Arena Chapel) | The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy |
| Michelangelo | The Sistine Chapel Ceiling & The Last Judgement | The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City | |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Paul Gauguin's Armchair | The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | The Yellow House (Article on Decorations for the Yellow House) | The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | Bedroom in Arles (First Version) | The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Vincent Van Gogh | Wheat Field with Crows | The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | The Potato Eaters | The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Sandro Botticelli | The Birth of Venus | Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy | |
| Sandro Botticelli | Primavera | Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy | |
| Diego Velázquez | Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum | |
| Jan Vermeer | The Art of Painting | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum | |
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder | The Peasant Wedding, 1567 | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum | |
| x | Edward Hopper | Rooms by the Sea | Yale University Art Gallery |
| Edward Hopper | Sunlight in a Cafeteria | Yale University Art Gallery | |
| Edward Hopper | Western Hotel | Yale University Art Gallery | |
| John Trumbull | The Declaration of Independence | Yale University Art Gallery | |
| x | Roy Lichtenstein | Blam | Yale University Art Gallery |
| x | Thomas Heart Benton | Weighing Cotton | Yale University Art Gallery |
| x | Vincent Van Gogh | The Night Cafe | Yale University Art Gallery |
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