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A work made of oil on cardboard.

Houses at Murnau, 1909

Vasily Kandinsky

Rectangular painting of white, framed by a thin, yellow outline and a thicker, black outline.

Brilliant Yellow #9, 1964/65

Jo Baer

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 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

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 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

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

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

The Art of Mnemonics, 1968

Vera Berdich

Small, dark colored ceramic vessel with a handle and spout at the top. The front of the vessel looks like a face, with two round forms making the eyes, a long, thin form a nose, and an oval form the mouth. Two ear-like shapes protude from the side of the vessel.

Face Jug, c. 1860

Artist unknown

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

A work made of creamware.

Plate, c. 1790

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

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

Interrogation II, 1981

Leon Golub

A work made of nautilus shell, ink, and gilded silver.

Nautilus Shell Cup, c. 1600 (mounts altered 1800s)

Bowl-shaped terracotta vessel with a foot, glazed in red with black figures encircling its body.

Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), late 6th century BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of silver gilt, enamel, and gemstones.

Reliquary Cross with the Arms of the Veltheim Family, c. 1300

Pink and red wax sculpture of a naked person lying on their side in a fetal position.

Blood Pool, 1992

Kiki Smith

A work made of ivory, brass, tempera, and gold leaf.

Casket, 12th century

A dark-brown painted sculpture with hints of orange showing through of a slim face with a long neck. The lips are drawn in a pout, the cheeks sunken, the hair pulled back in a swirl pattern and falling down in a slim column.

Head, Mid–late 19th century

Fang

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