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Portrait of a woman in white with a bonnet perched on an architectural feature painting something to her right, a spouting water fountain, greenery, and a an ornate, low white fence behind her. Beside her, a man leans back, eying the canvas.

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907

John Singer Sargent

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Bowl with Large Diamond-Shaped Area Interior with Dotted Lines and Diamonds, and Interlocking Stepped Motifs, 950–1400

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of pen and black ink and brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on tan wood-pulp laminate board.

The Artful Dodgers (Shrapnel Coming Down the Road), n.d.

Frederic Remington

Color print of travelers of foot and horseback following a grassy route flanked by Japanese bungalows and groves of trees.

Hamamatsu, 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 pen and brown ink and colored crayons on cream wove paper (discolored to buff), pieced.

The Arrival of the Muses of Art at Architecture, 1890

Jan Toorop

Wooden sculpture of seated king surrounded by family.

Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá), 1910-14

Olowe of Ise

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

Mug, about 460 BCE

Ancient Greek

Terracotta pitcher decorated with red figures on a black background, with a slender neck and base. One side features a woman holding a fan; the reverse, a stylized fan pattern.

Oinochoe (Pitcher), end of 4th century BCE

Ancient Greek

Abstract painting, black background covered with flicks and smudges of white and other colors.

Greyed Rainbow, 1953

Jackson Pollock

A work made of book.

Bauhaus: Art as Life, 2012

APFEL

A work made of wood and paint.

Parrot, 1870–90

Wilhelm Schimmel

A work made of the reflecting pool, 1977-79, 6:58 min.; moonblood, 1977-79, 12:48 min.; silent life, 1979, 13:14 min.; ancient of days, 1979-81, 12:21 min.; vegetable memory, 1978-80, 15:13 min. color video, sound (projection); 62 min. loop.

The Reflecting Pool: Collected Works, 1977–80

Bill Viola

Painting of a crowd of well-dressed light-skinned people in an open, snowy field surrounded by large rolling hills. At center a woman in a bright-yellow coat and skirt holds the hand of a child in red, who pulls to turn her toward the others.

Love of Winter, 1914

George Wesley Bellows

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

Cylinder Desk and Bookcase, 1800–10

Artist unknown

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 rectangular painting on light, vivid orange features a deeper orange block set atop a yellow block. The colors of each element are only loosely blended and lightly applied, so various tones are visible.

Untitled (Painting), 1953/54

Mark Rothko

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 painted wood and metal.

Whirligig, 1939–45

Frank Memkus

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