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A work made of marble.

Figure of a Youth from a Funerary Stele (Monument), about 380 BCE

Ancient Greek

Terracotta vessel glazed in black, decorated with an orange figure of a woman holding a shield and a spear.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 460-450 BCE

Achilles Painter

A work made of brown-stained oak.

Armchair, 1904–5

J.S. Ford, Johnson and Company

Abstract painting with heavy white, gray, and brown paint applied in thick brushstrokes, suggesting wings emerging from a dark background.

The Annunciation, 1957/59

Jay DeFeo

A work made of earthenware and tin-glaze, with cobalt glaze.

Tibor (Jar), 1700–50

Talavera Poblana

A work made of paper.

Gary Hume New Art Close-Up 1, 2004

Graphic Thought Facility

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Art Institute of Chicago), 1985

André Kertész

Tall black painted wooden cabinet, white trim, shape of skyscraper.

"Skyscraper" Cabinet, c. 1927

Paul Theodore Frankl

A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

Chicago Art Exposition, 1982

Jack Tworkov

A work made of blue-green title label on yellow paper wrappers.

Portfolio wrapper, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

An orange-red ceramic vessel in the shape of an abstract figure with wide-set eyes and short arms, a handle at back.

Single Spout Vessel with Molded Abstract Figure, 1000–1476

Lambayeque

A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Lekanis (Covered Dish), 450-430 BCE

Ancient Greek

Color print of a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, flanked by several trees and low green hills. Beyond this figure, others on ferries cross a winding river in rowboats toward tent-like structures in the distance. Vertical text in Japanese peppers the top half of the work, with text in a vertical red banner at upper right.

Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of wood and pigment.

Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola), Mid–late 19th century

Luluwa

A work made of color photo-etching with aquatint, mezzotint, and drypoint on white wove paper.

The Art of Mnemonics, 1968

Vera Berdich

A work made of etching.

Bookplate (Art Deco), mid–20th century

Sekino Jun’ichirō

A work made of periodicals; complete set of 7 issues.

Lef (Left Front of the Arts), 1923–24

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko

Narrow, vertical print of a Japanese woman in partial view, wearing a billowing pink-orange kimono and holding a yellow umbrella.

Beauty Under an Umbrella in the Snow, c. 1770

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of brass.

Head (Uhunmwun Elao), 18th/early 19th century

Edo

A work made of portfolio cover.

Portfolio Cover for Serigraphs by Students of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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