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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 oil on canvas.

A Marine, c. 1874–75

George Inness

A work made of oil on canvas.

Summer Night in Arizona, 1944

Max Ernst

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware.

Basin Depicting a Cistern, Tower and Domed Building, 1775–1825

Talavera Poblana

A work made of glass.

Paperweight, c. 1870

A work made of oil on canvas.

Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony), 1880

John Singer Sargent

A work made of oil on canvas.

Mrs. Noah Smith and Family, c. 1830

Ezra Ames

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

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 oil on canvas.

Primeval, 1962

Adolph Gottlieb

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

Philosophy, plate 28 from Arts and Sciences, c. 1465

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi

A work made of earthenware and glaze.

Teardrop Bottle, 1963

Gertrud Natzler

A work made of oak, laminated wood, leather, jute webbing, and horsehair.

Side Chair, 1910

George Grant Elmslie

A work made of wood and pigment.

Tray (Opon Ifa), Mid–20th century, probably 1930s

Yoruba

A work made of etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory laid paper.

A Picador is Unhorsed and Falls under the Bull, plate 26 from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of enamel on aluminum.

Maggie's Brain, 1995

Christopher Wool

A work made of tempera on board.

The Cloisters, 1949

Andrew Wyeth

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Column-Krater (Mixing Bowl), about 450 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of earthenware and glaze.

Vase, c. 1905

Fritz Albert

Four distinct motifs, each abstract, colorful, and cartoonish, float sequentially, one on top of the other, against a shiny, black background. One looks like an expanding galaxy. The top one, a figure, has a squat body and a pointy head and is grinning.

Mr. Pointy, 2011

Takashi Murakami

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