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Winter landscape painting with rocky stream lined by orange leafed trees.

Icebound, c. 1889

John Henry Twachtman

Miniature room with two tall windows framing a small Cubist painting and a fireplace, two golden scuptures set before the windows. At right, a small red couch is flanked by two Lucite chairs. At left, an open glass door is flanked by oak chaises with red cushions. A plush cream rug fills the space.

A37: California Hallway, c. 1940, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of bone, cow horn, wood, iron, and silk velvet.

Casket, c. 1390-c. 1410

Workshop of the Embriachi Family

A work made of oil on canvas.

Farm near Duivendrecht, c. 1916

Piet Mondrian

A work made of glass.

Inlay Depicting the Face of a King, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of oil on linen.

Untitled XI, 1975

Willem de Kooning

A work made of color woodblock print.

Matsue, Izumo, from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshū), 1924

Kawase Hasui

A light-brown, kettlebell-shaped vessel with a top spout features a red line drawing of a seated warrior facing right, wearing a stylized patterned dress and holding a weapon.

Stirrup Spout Vessel with Fineline Enthroned Warrior Motif, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Kylix (Drinking Cup), about 460 BCE

Penthesilea Painter

A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

It's Not Art, That Counts Now, from Preview Suite, 1988

Allen Rawson Ruppersberg

A work made of offset lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

Relax Senator Helms, The Art World Is Your Kind of Place!, 1989

Guerrilla Girls

A work made of oil and sand on four joined canvases, with artist's painted frame.

Corpse and Mirror II, 1974/75

Jasper Johns

A photo of dark room shows one large projection on the wall to the left and on the wall to the right two pedestals with two monitors stacked on top of both. Each screen shows a different view of a red-wigged, red-nosed clown in a striped outfit.

Clown Torture, 1987

Bruce Nauman

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

Against red background four men stand around another bound naked to a chair, his head covered.

Interrogation II, 1981

Leon Golub

Vibrantly colored landscape painting of houses built on a steep hill surrounded by thin, bent trees and a narrow trail or road. Bright orange, red, pink, green, and yellow illuminate the scene.

Landscape at L'Estaque, 1906

Georges Braque

A work made of fluorescent paint and silkscreen ink on linen.

Flowers, 1964

Andy Warhol

A work made of oil on cardboard.

Houses at Murnau, 1909

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Title Page, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

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