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A group of light-skinned people accompanied by a horse and rider carry a palanquin, or box on two poles used to transport a person. A silhouetted backdrop of huts and trees in black and gray contrasts with the colored figures.

Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of ivory.

Tapper (Iroke Ifa), 17th or 18th century

Yoruba

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887

Elihu Vedder

A work made of oil and magna on canvas.

Woman III, 1982

Roy Lichtenstein

A work made of chrome, black enameled metal, and ebonized wood.

Ball Clock, 1948–69

Irving Harper

Round, red-brown bowl with small cracks its black interior. The outer surface is striated with tight horizontal lines and a diagonal pattern.

Bowl with Textured Surface Decoration in Basketry-Like Pattern, 900–1000

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of bronze.

Suffering, 1907

Constantin Brancusi

A work made of color woodblock print; hashira-e.

The Heron Maiden, c. 1766/67

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

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

Max Ernst

A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Hydria (Water Jar), about 300 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of stained wood box with glass front, paper, light bulb, colored-paper image on wood form, plastic spider, tree bark, and dried leaves.

Untitled (Lighted Owl), c. 1949

Joseph Cornell

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica).

Salt Cellar, c. 1530

the Milan Marsyas Painter

A work made of oil on canvas.

Spring Rains, c. 1924

Victor Higgins

A painting of a light-skinned man in a suit and glasses standing in profile and a light-skinned woman with chin-length gray hair and wearing a full-length bright-pink robe stand in a courtyard with various sculptures. Between them is a large stone on a plinth, behind them a green abstracted seated figure, and off to the right a totem pole.

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman), 1968

David Hockney

A work made of calabash, sticks, cloth, and string.

"A, B, C, D"-Shaped Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

Wooden chair with woven cotton seat, back, footrest.

Chair (Kiti Cha Enzi), 19th century

Swahili

Abstract painting in predominant shades of blue, green, and black, featuring diagonal bands of color and undulating lines.

Blue and Green Music, 1919–21

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of copper and silver inlay.

Vase, c. 1925

Jean Dunand

A work made of color woodblock print.

Bird, from Milestones of the Season (Shibunshū “Kisetsu-hyō”)Season (Shibunshû “Kisetsu-hyô”), 1935

Onchi Kōshirō

A work made of twenty four light bulbs, extension cord, plastic light sockets, and dimmer switch.

"Untitled" (Last Light), 1993

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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