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A work made of gelatin silver print.

2:40 a.m. Going to work, Mathysloop, KwaNdebele, 1984, printed c. 2012

David Goldblatt

A work made of gelatin silver print.

8:45 p.m. Going home, Marabastad–Waterval bus: 45 minutes to the terminal, 1984

David Goldblatt

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "Sur la Route: Huit Photographies Prises Entre Paris et Marseille ou Entre Paris et Biarritz", 1930

Germaine Krull

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "Sur la Route: Huit Photographies Prises Entre Paris et Marseille ou Entre Paris et Biarritz", 1930

Germaine Krull

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "Sur la Route: Huit Photographies Prises Entre Paris et Marseille ou Entre Paris et Biarritz", 1930

Germaine Krull

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "Sur la Route: Huit Photographies Prises Entre Paris et Marseille ou Entre Paris et Biarritz", 1930

Germaine Krull

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, from the series "Sur la Route: Huit Photographies Prises Entre Paris et Marseille ou Entre Paris et Biarritz", 1930

Germaine Krull

A work made of silk, plain weave; mon: dye extracted through discharge dyeing technique and chemical dye stripper (bassen) with painted details; upper lining: silk, plain weave; lower lining: silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk in satin and single satin stitches.

Mofuku, Shôwa period (1926–1989), c. 1935

A work made of rayon, plain weave self-patterned by rows of gauze crossings (yoko ro); resist dyed and stenciled.

Haori, Shôwa period (1926–1989), before 1940

A work made of oil on canvas.

Irises, 1914–17

Claude Monet

Lush tall grasses with small white flowers foreground a grove of bushy trees of varying types and heights, their leaves ranging from deep green to golden. Beneath a dense and heavy yellow sky, a small blue triangle suggesting a mountain peak crests above the treeline at far left.

The Poet's Garden, 1888

Vincent van Gogh

Large painting of people in a crowded park, brushstrokes are dots.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Georges Seurat

Dense and varied landscape with open fields, groves of bushy trees, and a row of thin conifers. A light-blue river tranverses the canvas, and a church steeple emerges from the trees at left of center. At far left is a side view of a white house with open shutters, a woman working inside.

Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods, 1899

Édouard Jean Vuillard

A work made of tempera on panel.

Saint Anthony Abbot, 1440–41

Fra Angelico

A work made of distemper on canvas.

Foliage—Oak Tree and Fruit Seller, 1918

Édouard Jean Vuillard

A work made of silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, and peacock feathers, slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; edged with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; top facing edged with silk, plain weave; lined with silk, plain weave.

Buddhist Monk's Cape (Incomplete), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1650/1700

A work made of top: cotton, plain weave; block printed; narrow band: silk, warp-float faced 5:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 's' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; upper and lower panels: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; outer bands: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, dovetailed tapestry weave; ribbon: silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps; outer edging: silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; lined with cotton, plain weave; painted inscription.

Valance, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1799

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strips, satin damask weave with patterning and brocading; wrapped over cardboard and backed with paper; applied label of silk, plain weave; with inscribed title painted and/or printed with ink.

Sutra Cover, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), c. 1590s

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave (kossu); painted; lined with silk, 3:1 twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing.

Man's Rank Badge, 1880/1900, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Manchu

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Jenny Holzer, 1986/87

David Robbins

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