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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 oil on canvas.

Autumn, c. 1914

Wilson Henry Irvine

A work made of sepia print.

Vincent Kling Studios, 639 North Fairbanks Court, Chicago, Illinois: Interior Perspective of Art Director's Office, Second Floor, 1945/46

Henry Peter Glass

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 gelatin silver print.

Opening at the Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires, 1963

Sameer Makarius

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

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

Flowers, 1964

Andy Warhol

A work made of oil on board.

Girl with Cat, 1937

Balthus

An abstracted work made of irregular pieces of stretched canvas bonded together, creating a funnel shape that protrudes out to form a dark hole.

Untitled, 1960

Lee Bontecou

A work made of screenprint in red ink on tan envelope.

Da Hairy Who Foyer - For Ya Prince, 1967–68

The Hairy Who (Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jim Falconer, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum)

A work made of oil on canvas.

Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony), 1880

John Singer Sargent

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

Expressive painting with an almost blurry effect of three women dressed in black and white examining and cutting large pieces of fabric.

Shop Girls, c. 1912

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones

A work made of pen and black ink and typed letters on ivory wove typing paper.

Untitled (Angel Flying Money to the Lions in Front of The Art Institute of Chicago), 1945

John Steuart Curry

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

A work made of chromogenic print.

Eagle Art Works Foundry, 6700 Southwest Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam", August 1993

Joel Sternfeld

A small statue consisting of a multicolored rectangular base and a painted mummified figure oriented vertically, wearing an elaborate striped headdress with a plume.

Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of book with color off-set lithographs on white wove paper.

Hairy Who (cat-a-log), 1969

The Hairy Who (Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jim Falconer, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum)

A work made of lithograph with hand-coloring on cut and embossed ivory wove paper (lace).

Art Thou Not Dear Unto My Heart (valentine), c. 1850

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