McSorley’s Old Ale House is an East Village institution in New York City that opened in 1854 and still serves beer today. Sloan painted the pub in his 1912 work “McSorley’s Bar,” depicting bartenders, customers, and the sawdust-covered floors (that still remain). Sloan’s contemporary, Edward Hopper, was known for painting drug stores and diners just blocks away in Greenwich Village.

After the Moulin Rouge cabaret club opened in 1889, its owner purchased Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s “Equestrienne” painting to decorate the building’s foyer. In 1892, Toulouse-Lautrec began work on “At the Moulin Rouge,” a piece depicting the likenesses of many of Moulin Rouge’s regular customers, which included a self-portrait.

One of Britain’s most famous paintings, John Constable's 1821 piece "The Hay Wain" was originally titled "Landscape: Noon" but was renamed in reference to the vehicle crossing the water in the painting's center. To the left is a cottage, which has been identified as the home of Willy Lott in Suffolk, England. Constable grew up in Suffolk and knew the Lott location well.

The 1948 painting "Christina's World" shows a young woman, Christina, laying in a field of grass looking back at an old farmhouse. The setting of Andrew Wyeth's masterpiece is based on the Olson House, which is in Cushing, Maine. Wyeth spent many summers there and even used the upstairs room of the house as a studio where he worked. "Christina's World" is now housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Seurat's most famous pointillist painting depicts people relaxing on an island in the Seine River called "La Grande Jatte," which was especially popular with upper class Parisians in the 19th century. The masterpiece shows a fairly ordinary scene, but the groundbreaking technique employed by Seurat's dotting helped create the neo-impressionist art movement.

Around the year 1750, Italian painter Giovanni Paolo Panini captured Pope Benedict XIV’s 1744 visit to the Trevi Fountain, an architectural masterpiece located in central Rome. In his painting, the artist even included a self-portrait of him kneeling before the pope. The painting was done in a deeply realistic style that captures the fountain in vivid detail.

Albert Bierstadt was a German American painter whose most famous works depict grandiose, majestic scenes of the American West. Many of those paintings are of national parks, like this one depicting the Yosemite Valley of Yosemite National Park. Bierstadt painted the scene in the summer of 1863, 27 years before the area would officially become a national park.

Paul Gauguin’s history with Tahiti is complicated. He arrived in 1891 with unrealistic expectations of a paradise; those dreams were shattered upon seeing how French colonialism had negatively affected the island and its inhabitants. Over the years, Gauguin painted many Tahitian portraits and scenes, including the 1897 masterpiece, “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”

In the last few decades of the 19th century, Paul Cézanne was living in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence, France, where the limestone peak of Mont Sainte-Victoire towered overhead. The 3,317-foot mountain became the subject of at least two dozen Cézanne works and appeared in the background of even more. In 1901, he built a studio on a hill across from the mountain and would visit and admire its beauty as often as he could.

Impressionist Edouard Manet visited Venice's Grand Canal in 1875 with his friend and fellow painter James Tissot. His paintings there employed broken brushstrokes and brighter-than-usual colors to depict the visual splendor of Venice's largest waterway. On the right edge of his painting “The Grand Canal of Venice,” a gondolier is seen paddling his way through the aquatic Venetian thoroughfare.

One of the most famous paintings of all time, Edvard Munch's "The Scream” was painted in 1893 and is based on an overlook in Oslo. There are actually multiple copies of "The Scream," all painted by the original artist. In 2012, an 1895 version of the work sold at auction for $120 million, making it one of the most valuable paintings in history.

German-American artist Emanuel Leutze painted “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in 1851. The famous work depicts General Washington leading his troops from Pennsylvania across the Delaware River to attack Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey, on December 25, 1776. The impressive painting measures 12 feet high and 21 feet wide.

American artist Grant Wood's most famous painting, "American Gothic," depicts a man and woman in front of a small white home in the town of Eldon, Iowa. In 1930, Wood got his sister and his dentist to pose for the now-iconic work of art. The title of the painting comes from Wood's observation that there was an oversized Carpenter Gothic window on the top floor of the house.

One of Vermeer's more unusual paintings, "The Little Street," is a simple portrait of ordinary houses on Vlamingstraat, in the city of Delft. He painted the quaint thoroughfare in 1658. The house to the painting's right was the home of Vermeer's aunt. Vermeer lived most of his life in Delft and utilized its many beautiful views as settings for his oeuvre.

Vincent Van Gogh spent a large portion of his artistic career in Arles, a coastal village in the south of France. His "Café Terrace at Night" is one notable work from that period, as is his most famous painting, "The Starry Night." The yellow-lit café in the former painting still exists in downtown Arles and has been renamed "Le Café Van Gogh" in the artist's honor.

Many of Claude Monet's most famous paintings came from the Artist's Garden at Giverny. Monet already owned a small garden near his house and decided to purchase a larger plot of land to grow more beautiful plants. The garden he built included the bridge and water lily pond pictured here, and provided the inspiration for many of the impressionist master's most famous works.

El Greco, whose real name was Domenikos Theotokopoulos, painted his "View of Toledo" in 1600. His greatest surviving landscape, "View of Toledo" depicts the city where El Greco lived and worked for most of his life. Though the layout of the city and its hills is partially reorganized and imagined, one can still recognize the cityscape by its distinct Alcázar royal palace and the path of the Tagus River.

Hokusai Katsuchika was 70 years old when he started his "36 Views of Mount Fuji" series. The works depict the legendary mountain from three dozen unique perspectives — sometimes in the foreground as the main object, sometimes in the background of another scene from Japanese life. The woodblock prints, including the series' most famous entry, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," were a landmark contribution to Japanese printmaking.

Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" is arguably his most famous work — and certainly his most powerful political statement. The dramatic black-and-white painting is Picasso's immediate reaction to the Nazi bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The imposing painting measures 11 feet tall and 25 feet wide, and is currently displayed in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Georgia O'Keeffe was captivated by New Mexico when she first visited on vacation in 1917 — so much so that she made the state her permanent residence in the 1940s. New Mexico’s dramatic desert landscapes inspired many of the artist's most famous paintings, including "Pelvis Series - Red With Yellow." Today, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is located in the state capital of Santa Fe.