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A work made of earthenware.

Plate, 1780–1820

Artist unknown

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

A work made of oil on canvas.

Lady in Green and Gray, 1911

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 32: Seba, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of hand-colored etching on paper.

Maecenas, In Pursuit of the Fine Arts, published May 9, 1808

James Gillray

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

A work made of earthenware and glaze.

Vase, c. 1905

Fritz Albert

A close-up view of five hickory leaves in vivid yellow, a white daisy in the lower middle portion, on a white background.

Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy, 1928

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of limestone with traces of polychromy.

Buddha, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), c. 725/50

A work made of gilt bronze, marble, and glass.

Girandoles, 1848–51

Isaac F. Baker

Deep earthenware soup bowl with two swirly designed handles and cover topped with a flower shaped element. The bowl is decorated in black with griffin and palmette pattern on rim and with a scene in an oval depicting a running male figure in a winged helmet handing a baby over to the lady sitting on the ground.

Tureen, 1810/20

Creil Pottery

A work made of color woodblock print.

Woman in Summer Clothing (Portrait of Nakatani Tsuru), 1920

Hashiguchi Goyô

A work made of oil on canvas with wooden matchsticks, hairpins, coins, leather hair rollers, and string.

Untitled (Match-Woman I), 1920

Francis Picabia

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Butcher Cart, 1901

George Benjamin Luks

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Dance Staff, Late 19th/early 20th century

Baule

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 work made of silver.

Seal of the Fine Arts Federation of New York, 1890–1908

Victor David Brenner

Three-part bronze sculpture set of two clenched hands and a man's face with closed eyes and mouth, an object in one hand.

Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln, Cast in plaster 1860; cast in bronze by 1888

Leonard Wells Volk

Box construction lined with printed text. A white sphere and clear blue marble are suspended between two horizontal glass shelves. At bottom left is a clear glass goblet filled with coral, shells, and paper. At bottom right, a white ceramic hand holding a cup.

Soap Bubble Set, 1948

Joseph Cornell

A work made of oil on canvas.

Abstract Cityscape, 1924

Léopold Survage

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