The candy pile is the first artwork the Art Institute acquired in 1999. It has the reference number of 1.1999.
I googled all the other years from 1879 to 2018. Yup, that’s 139 Google searches. Google totally DID NOT like me doing that many searches.
Anyhow, I only came up with two more artworks: 1.2001 and 1.2013
“Figures in Boats”
1652–1707
Willem van de Velde II
1.2001
Statue of Young Dionysos
100 BC/AD 100
Hellenistic or Roman; Eastern Mediterranean
1.2013
Sorry, I had to draw a censor bar over Dionysos’ privates.
I’m kinda surprised that out of 139 years, I’m only able to find three artworks that start with the reference number “1”. Perhaps I could inquire with the Art Institute about what the others could be.