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A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

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

Max Ernst

Black glazed terracotta vessel with a short, curved handle on one side. Visible cracks indicate fragmentary repair.

Mug, about 460 BCE

Ancient Greek

A ceramic vessel with a long handle, its bone-white surface decorated with black geometric designs.

Dipper or Ladle with Interlocking Zigzag and Step-Fret Designs, 1000–1300

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan tracing paper, squared in charcoal, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board.

Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses), c. 1883

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

A work made of mahogany and white pine, with mahogany, birch, and maple veneers.

Cylinder Desk and Bookcase, 1800–10

Artist unknown

A work made of oil on canvas.

Rainy Day, 1906

Frank Weston Benson

A work made of cyanotype.

Sculptural Frieze by Cavelier, Minerva Surrounded by the Muses of the Arts, c. 1868

Adolphe Terris

In a stark desert landscape, an older man sits in the foreground, illuminated, with a newspaper. Arranged evenly across the land behind him, smaller than perspective would indicate, are a faded child holding a hula hoop, a man holding a melting piano, a standing woman, and a figure near the horizon.

A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano, 1936

Salvador Dalí

Abstract painting with dominant red, yellow, and blue tones. Densely commingled forms, many outlined in black or brown strokes, fill the canvas.

The Key, 1946

Jackson Pollock

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Stamped Carhart’s, High Hat Panel Art Prints, August 15 1938), printed August 15, 1938

Unknown Maker

A work made of gilt copper, champlevé enamel over wood core.

Reliquary Casket, c. 1200

A wide-mouthed drinking cup glazed in black with two handles extending from opposite sides.

Skyphos (Drinking Cup), 410-400 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of book with color off-set lithographs on white wove paper, with yellow wove paper cover.

The Hairy Who Sideshow, 1967

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

A work made of bronze.

Woman (Elevation), Modeled 1912–15, cast 1927

Gaston Lachaise

A work made of steel and aluminum.

Steel-Aluminum Plain, 1969

Carl André

Painting of artist drawing on easel, green landscape, stone walls surround him.

The Artist Looks at Nature, 1943

Charles Sheeler

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

Banderillas with firecrackers, plate 31 from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware.

Large Plate, 1775–1825

Talavera Poblana

A work made of silver gilt over a wooden core; foot: copper gilt.

Altar Cross, c. 1325; foot: 15th century

Bowl-shaped terracotta vessel with a foot, glazed in red with black figures encircling its body.

Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), late 6th century BCE

Ancient Greek

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