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A work made of cyanotype.

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

Adolphe Terris

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 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

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 wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

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

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 oil on canvas.

Rainy Day, 1906

Frank Weston Benson

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 creamware.

Plate, c. 1790

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, ink, and gilded silver.

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

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 steel and aluminum.

Steel-Aluminum Plain, 1969

Carl Andre

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

The Artist Looks at Nature, 1943

Charles Sheeler

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