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A work made of wood and pigment.

Helmet Mask (Kponyungo), 19th to early 20th century

Senufo

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 work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

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 portfolio cover.

Portfolio Cover for Serigraphs by Students of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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

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

Icebound, c. 1889

John Henry Twachtman

Round, red-brown bowl with small cracks its black interior. The outer surface is striated with tight horizontal lines and a diagonal pattern.

Bowl with Textured Surface Decoration in Basketry-Like Pattern, 900–1000

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of nautilus shell and gilded silver.

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

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

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

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

A work made of painted enamel and gold on copper.

Triptych with The Crucifixion, The Flagellation, and The Entombment, c. 1500

A work made of portfolio of prints (25) of various media.

Photographs from Class of '74, c. 1974

School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Graduate Photography Class of 1974

A work made of oak.

Desk, 1908

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

Chicago Art Exposition, 1982

Jack Tworkov

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Art Institute of Chicago), 1985

André Kertész

A chaotic but happy kitchen scene: A light-skinned woman in a pink dress at left bends to take a turkey out of the oven, while another at right forms a pie near a small girl playing with a kitten. Behind them, a woman selects dishware as yet another carries a basket of ingredients. A fifth woman in the back puts on a fancy hat and coat near a pair of babies reaching out from their twin high chair.

Thanksgiving, c. 1935

Doris Lee

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