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A work made of color woodblock print.

Matsue, Izumo, from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshū), 1924

Kawase Hasui

A light-brown, kettlebell-shaped vessel with a top spout features a red line drawing of a seated warrior facing right, wearing a stylized patterned dress and holding a weapon.

Stirrup Spout Vessel with Fineline Enthroned Warrior Motif, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of oil and sand on four joined canvases, with artist's painted frame.

Corpse and Mirror II, 1974/75

Jasper Johns

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

Arithmetic, plate 25 from Arts and Sciences, c. 1465

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi

A work made of fluorescent paint and silkscreen ink on linen.

Flowers, 1964

Andy Warhol

Conical-shaped bowl with sides angled outward, a smooth black interior, and a bumpy exterior that is black along the rim and graduates to a reddish-brown color.

Bowl with Textured Surface Decoration, 900–1000

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Kylix (Drinking Cup), about 460 BCE

Penthesilea Painter

Bone-colored bowl with interior decorations of bone-colored zig-zags, diamonds, and lines on a black background, a circle at the interior base.

Bowl with Bold Black-on-White Diamond and Zizgag Motifs, 950–1400

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of oil on cardboard.

Houses at Murnau, 1909

Vasily Kandinsky

Rectangular painting of white, framed by a thin, yellow outline and a thicker, black outline.

Brilliant Yellow #9, 1964/65

Jo Baer

Vibrantly colored landscape painting of houses built on a steep hill surrounded by thin, bent trees and a narrow trail or road. Bright orange, red, pink, green, and yellow illuminate the scene.

Landscape at L'Estaque, 1906

Georges Braque

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

A work made of spiral-bound book with fifteen pages of drawings in graphite, fiber-tipped pens, charcoal, and colored pencil on cream wove paper.

Talent ART Tablet, n.d.

Marion Perkins

A photo of dark room shows one large projection on the wall to the left and on the wall to the right two pedestals with two monitors stacked on top of both. Each screen shows a different view of a red-wigged, red-nosed clown in a striped outfit.

Clown Torture, 1987

Bruce Nauman

A work made of oil on board.

Girl with Cat, 1937

Balthus

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

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 creamware.

Plate, c. 1790

A work made of nautilus shell and gilded silver.

Nautilus Shell Cup, c. 1600 (mounts altered in the 1800s)

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

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

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