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An orange-red ceramic vessel in the shape of an abstract figure with wide-set eyes and short arms, a handle at back.

Single Spout Vessel with Molded Abstract Figure, 1000–1476

Lambayeque

Opulently dressed light-skinned man and woman drink at a small table. A mirror behind them reflects a crowd. Her blue dress and dark hat dominate.

At Mouquin's, 1905

William James Glackens

A work made of albumen print, from "art in old paris".

91 Rue de Turenne, 1911

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

A work made of marble.

Figure of a Youth from a Funerary Stele (Monument), about 380 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of brown-stained oak.

Armchair, 1904–5

J.S. Ford, Johnson and Company

A work made of book with color off-set lithographs on ivory wove paper.

Hairy Who, 1968

The Hairy Who (Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jim Falconer, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum)

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware with cobalt glaze.

Tibor (Jar), 1700–50

Talavera Poblana

Abstract painting with heavy white, gray, and brown paint applied in thick brushstrokes, suggesting wings emerging from a dark background.

The Annunciation, 1957/59

Jay DeFeo

Terracotta vessel glazed in black, decorated with an orange figure of a woman holding a shield and a spear.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 460-450 BCE

Achilles Painter

Tall black painted wooden cabinet, white trim, shape of skyscraper.

Skyscraper Cabinet, c. 1927

Paul Theodore Frankl

A work made of engraving on cream laid paper.

Art of Writing, from Encyclopédie, 1760

Aubin

A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Lekanis (Covered Dish), 450-430 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Plate Eight, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

Color print of a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, flanked by several trees and low green hills. Beyond this figure, others on ferries cross a winding river in rowboats toward tent-like structures in the distance. Vertical text in Japanese peppers the top half of the work, with text in a vertical red banner at upper right.

Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of wood and pigment.

Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola), Mid–late 19th century

Luluwa

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Horse with Art Nouveau Man, 1925/85

Clarence John Laughlin

A work made of offset lithograph on white wove paper.

When Racism & Sexism Are No Longer Fashionable, What Will Your Art Collection Be Worth?, 1989

Guerrilla Girls

Narrow, vertical print of a Japanese woman in partial view, wearing a billowing pink-orange kimono and holding a yellow umbrella.

Beauty Under an Umbrella in the Snow, c. 1770

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of brass.

Head (Uhunmwun Elao), 18th/early 19th century

Edo

A work made of engraving in black on cream laid paper.

Arithmetic, plate 25 from Arts and Sciences, c. 1465

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi

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