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A work made of oil on canvas.

Mrs. Noah Smith and Family, c. 1830

Ezra Ames

A small statue consisting of a multicolored rectangular base and a painted mummified figure oriented vertically, wearing an elaborate striped headdress with a plume.

Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

Expressive painting with an almost blurry effect of three women dressed in black and white examining and cutting large pieces of fabric.

Shop Girls, c. 1912

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones

A work made of lithographic poster on white wove paper.

Chicago Art Exposition, 1982

Jack Tworkov

A work made of oil on canvas.

Primeval, 1962

Adolph Gottlieb

A work made of wood and pigment.

Tray (Opon Ifa), Mid–20th century, probably 1930s

Yoruba

A work made of enamel on aluminum.

Maggie's Brain, 1995

Christopher Wool

A squat oval-shaped ceramic jar, painted black, with a cylindrical top and two very small handles on either side of the top. Some visible paint loss.

Blackware Jar with Single Spout, 1200–1450

Chimú

A work made of tempera on board.

The Cloisters, 1949

Andrew Wyeth

A work made of earthenware.

Plate, 1780–1820

Artist unknown

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Column-Krater (Mixing Bowl), about 450 BCE

Ancient Greek

Four distinct motifs, each abstract, colorful, and cartoonish, float sequentially, one on top of the other, against a shiny, black background. One looks like an expanding galaxy. The top one, a figure, has a squat body and a pointy head and is grinning.

Mr. Pointy, 2011

Takashi Murakami

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 32: Seba, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of earthenware and glaze.

Vase, c. 1905

Fritz Albert

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

Philosophy, plate 28 from Arts and Sciences, c. 1465

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi

A work made of limestone with traces of polychromy.

Buddha, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), c. 725/50

A work made of etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory laid paper.

A Picador is Unhorsed and Falls under the Bull, plate 26 from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of gilt bronze, marble, and glass.

Girandoles, 1848–51

Isaac F. Baker

A work made of oil on canvas.

Lady in Green and Gray, 1911

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

A tapestry depicting a fountain that features two nude females holding a platform on which another nude female lies, her arm around a moose.

The Petitions [right part], 1607/30

Antoine Caron

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