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A work made of glass with hand painted emblems.

Bullet & Emblem Cream Pitcher, 1870–1900

Artist unknown

A work made of wood-block print, printed twice in brown and black inks, over a yellow, silver-gray and brownish-orange ink tone block, and transferred yellow, green, red, and orange oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), on ivory japanese paper, laid down on cream wove card.

Mahna no varua ino (The Devil Speaks), from the Noa Noa Suite, 1893/94

Paul Gauguin

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

Allegory on the Defeat of the Duke of Alva at Brielle, 1580

Unknown artist

A work made of mahogany, satinwood, and brass.

Traveling Desk, 1800–15

Artist unknown

Painting of a dark-skinned man seated and wearing a red open-necked tunic. He looks up to the right. His wrists are shackled and a large chain rests at his right, running down the bench he sits upon.

The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge), 1827

John Philip Simpson

A dark-skinned woman cradles a dark-skinned baby in her arms; the baby looks out, and raises an arm. Their forms are made up of blocky shapes, appearing like a collage, and they are set against a blue, green, and red color-blocked background.

Mother and Child, from Conspiracy, The Artist as Witness, 1971

Romare Howard Bearden

A work made of etching and aquatint in black on ivory laid paper.

Grandmother: The Artist's Mother, 1889

Camille Pissarro

Cyclopean Make-Up

Cyclopean Make-Up, 1975–76

Salvador Dalí

A work made of color offset lithograph on coated white wove paper.

Famous Artists from Chicago, 1970

Roger Brown

A work made of painted white pine and oak.

Chest, c. 1830

Artist unknown

Color print of Japanese man with sword making a funny face.

The actor Bando Mitsugoro II as Ishii Genzo, 1794

Tōshūsai Sharaku

A work made of red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper.

Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci, 1592/95

Agostino Carracci

A work made of color screenprint on board.

Big Books, Little Books, Medium Sized too; All Kinds of Story Books for You, and You, and You, 1935/43

Unknown artist

Painting of a stately woman seated on a red velvet chair in a blood-red room, a blue-white fireplace to her left. She glances down at the floor with a serene expression toward a tiny blond child—a baby—who sits on the floor tearing up paper, her pink-clad back facing the viewer.

The Red Room, Etretat, 1899

Félix Edouard Vallotton

A work made of wood.

Frame, 1880–1915

Artist unknown

A work made of rosewood and upholstery.

Couch, 1850–65

Artist unknown

A work made of color screenprint on board.

Don't you think it would be nice to be as quiet as these mice?, 1935/43

Unknown artist

A work made of collage of commercially prepared papers and mixed media on white 2-ply board.

Untitled, 1998

Arturo Herrera

A work made of graphite, on cream wove paper.

Gerda Schilling, the Artist's Sister-in-Law, 1912/1914

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A work made of woodcut in black hand colored with brush and watercolor on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.

The Way of Salvation, c. 1490

Unknown artist

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