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A group of light-skinned people accompanied by a horse and rider carry a palanquin, or box on two poles used to transport a person. A silhouetted backdrop of huts and trees in black and gray contrasts with the colored figures.

Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of bronze.

Suffering, 1907

Constantin Brancusi

A work made of chrome, black enameled metal, and ebonized wood.

Ball Clock, 1948–69

Irving Harper

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 tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica).

Salt Cellar, c. 1530

the Milan Marsyas Painter

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

Icebound, c. 1889

John Henry Twachtman

A work made of color woodblock print; hashira-e.

The Heron Maiden, c. 1766/67

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of calabash, sticks, cloth, and string.

"A, B, C, D"-Shaped Stamp for Adinkra Textile, Late 19th/mid–20th century

Asante

A work made of stained wood box with glass front, paper, light bulb, colored-paper image on wood form, plastic spider, tree bark, and dried leaves.

Untitled (Lighted Owl), c. 1949

Joseph Cornell

A work made of copper and silver inlay.

Vase, c. 1925

Jean Dunand

A work made of twenty four light bulbs, extension cord, plastic light sockets, and dimmer switch.

"Untitled" (Last Light), 1993

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Wooden chair with woven cotton seat, back, footrest.

Chair (Kiti Cha Enzi), 19th century

Swahili

A work made of color woodblock print.

Bird, from Milestones of the Season (Shibunshū “Kisetsu-hyō”)Season (Shibunshû “Kisetsu-hyô”), 1935

Onchi Kōshirō

A tall, wooden sculpture that leans against the gallery wall. A hollow box at the top is supported by two wooden branches that connect to a wheel at the bottom. The rough tree branches contrast with the refined wood of the box.

Sanctuary, 1982

Martin Puryear

Abstract painting in predominant shades of blue, green, and black, featuring diagonal bands of color and undulating lines.

Blue and Green Music, 1919–21

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of wood and pigment.

Face Mask (Sirige), 19th/20th century

Dogon

A work made of wood and pigment.

Time of the Brave Mask (Mgbedike), Early/mid–20th century

Igbo

A painting of a light-skinned man in a suit and glasses standing in profile and a light-skinned woman with chin-length gray hair and wearing a full-length bright-pink robe stand in a courtyard with various sculptures. Between them is a large stone on a plinth, behind them a green abstracted seated figure, and off to the right a totem pole.

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman), 1968

David Hockney

A work made of ink marker on fiberglass.

Untitled (Pair of Vases), 1981

Keith Haring

A work made of oil on canvas.

Portrait of Sylvette David, 1954

Pablo Picasso

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