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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

Tall city buildings seen at close range from the water, illuminated by hundreds of lighted windows and suffused with a dreamy light-blue and gray haze. Boats below emit blue steam.

Afterglow, c. 1913

Jonas Lie

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Bowl with Large Diamond-Shaped Area Interior with Dotted Lines and Diamonds, and Interlocking Stepped Motifs, 950–1400

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

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 wide-mouthed drinking cup glazed in black with two handles extending from opposite sides.

Skyphos (Drinking Cup), 410-400 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of oil on canvas.

Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1799

John Ritto Penniman

A work made of oil on canvas.

Drive in the Knife, May 1943

Matta

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Art Institute of Chicago), 1985

André Kertész

A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

Chicago Art Exposition, 1982

Jack Tworkov

A work made of paper.

Gary Hume New Art Close-Up 1, 2004

Graphic Thought Facility

A work made of acrylic, silkscreen ink, and diamond dust on linen.

Diamond Dust Joseph Beuys, 1980

Andy Warhol

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

Green glazed vessel decorated with floral adornments, tapered and flared at the neck, with two small cylindrical handles.

Jar with Tubular Handles, Peonies, “Endless Knot,” Pendant Balls, and Pendant Lozenges, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark and period (1736–1795)

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

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

E-27: French Library of the Modern Period, 1930s, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

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

The Art of Mnemonics, 1968

Vera Berdich

A wooden carving of a male figure. The figure has a distinctive face, with oval-shaped eyes and mouth, and wears a cap on his head. His body is covered in various shells, bones, feathers, fabric, and metal nails, and he holds a mirror-sealed resin packet over his stomach.

Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi), Probably early to mid-19th century

Vili

A work made of etching.

Bookplate (Art Deco), mid–20th century

Sekino Jun’ichirō

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