Knife rest, c. 1902

Artist unknown

Attention! Artists and Craftsmen, c. 1941

Unknown artist

Place de la Concorde, Paris, 1860s

Artist Unknown

Illinois Third Conservation Week, 1938

Unknown artist

Aztec Space II, 1986

Michael Tracy

Bar Bacchus in Ginza, from the series Pictures of Ginza, First Series, January 1929

Oda Kazuma

Flower Returning to the H2O, 1978

Barbara Rossi

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography), 1970

Mel Bochner

Untitled, from Ten West Coast Artists, 1967

Roy De Forest

Southern Barbarians, mid 17th century

The Canoe Undershore, c. 1903

Violet Oakley

Cup, 1750–70

Chinese export porcelain

Hikone Castle, 1942

Hashimoto Okiie

Narihira at Yatsuhashi Bridge, 1765

Boundless (Yuyu), 1998

Fujinuma Noboru

Shell Mosaic Ritual Mask, 300–600 CE

Teotihuacan

The Trapeze Artist, 1922, from Franz Kafka: Dreams, Diaries, and Fragments, 1994

Robert Andrew Parker

Chang E, The Moon Goddess, Yuan or early Ming dynasty, c. 1350/1440

Dawn (Reimei), 1983

Fujinuma Noboru

Supremes Dancing with Relatives, Detroit, April 1965

Art Shay