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Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

Small, dark colored ceramic vessel with a handle and spout at the top. The front of the vessel looks like a face, with two round forms making the eyes, a long, thin form a nose, and an oval form the mouth. Two ear-like shapes protude from the side of the vessel.

Face Jug, c. 1860

Artist unknown

A work made of wood and pigment.

Helmet Mask (Kponyungo), 19th to early 20th century

Senufo

A dark-brown painted sculpture with hints of orange showing through of a slim face with a long neck. The lips are drawn in a pout, the cheeks sunken, the hair pulled back in a swirl pattern and falling down in a slim column.

Head, Mid–late 19th century

Fang

Pink and red wax sculpture of a naked person lying on their side in a fetal position.

Blood Pool, 1992

Kiki Smith

A work made of nautilus-shell cup and silver gilt.

Nautilus-Shell Cup, c. 1600/1700 (19th century mounts)

A work made of silver gilt, enamel, and gemstones.

Reliquary Cross with the Arms of the Veltheim Family, c. 1300

A work made of ivory, brass, tempera, and gold leaf.

Casket, 12th century

A chaotic but happy kitchen scene: A light-skinned woman in a pink dress at left bends to take a turkey out of the oven, while another at right forms a pie near a small girl playing with a kitten. Behind them, a woman selects dishware as yet another carries a basket of ingredients. A fifth woman in the back puts on a fancy hat and coat near a pair of babies reaching out from their twin high chair.

Thanksgiving, c. 1935

Doris Lee

A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

It's Not Art, That Counts Now, from Preview Suite, 1988

Allen Rawson Ruppersberg

Black bowl with a narrow red base and embossed elements in red, including a floral border at top and bottom and Chinese characters in the middle.

Lacquer Tea Bowl 乾隆禦制雕漆盞, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark and period (1736–1795)

Winter landscape painting with rocky stream lined by orange leafed trees.

Icebound, c. 1889

John Henry Twachtman

A work made of terracotta.

Statuette of a Seated Girl, 330-320 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of oak.

Desk, 1908

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of offset lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

Relax Senator Helms, The Art World Is Your Kind of Place!, 1989

Guerrilla Girls

A work made of painted enamel and gold on copper.

Triptych with The Crucifixion, The Flagellation, and The Entombment, c. 1500

A pair of white, blue, pink, and black cranes, one with wing extended, perch on a wide, knotty, snow-covered pine branch.

Cranes on snow-covered pine, c. 1834

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of glass, paint, silver stain, lead.

The Hanging of Judas, c. 1520

A work made of terracotta, with silhouette decoration.

Miniature Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), 300-270 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of porcelain painted in underglaze blue.

Dish with Dragons Writhing amid Floral Scrolls, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Zhengde reign mark and period (1506–1521)

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