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A work made of ivory.

Tapper (Iroke Ifa), 17th or 18th century

Yoruba

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 internal dye diffusion transfer.

Iconographic Art Lunches #1: The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Submarine Sandwich: Salami, cheese, lettuce, sliced tomatoes, buns, lunch meat; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Salad Bar: (cont.), 1984

Robert Heinecken

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

Ball Clock, 1948–69

Irving Harper

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Pont des Arts, Paris, 1931

Ilse Bing

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica).

Salt Cellar, c. 1530

the Milan Marsyas Painter

A work made of lithograph in black and dark red on off-white coated paper.

Art Towards Social Development, 1982

Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele

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 color woodblock print; hashira-e.

The Heron Maiden, c. 1766/67

Suzuki Harunobu

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 wool and cotton, plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming cut pile through a technique known as "sehna knots"; knotted warp fringe.

Carpet (Art Deco), 1925/30

A tall, skinny stoneware vase in red, with a shiney, polished finish.

Bottle, 1962

Gertrud Natzler

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 terracotta, black-glaze.

Hydria (Water Jar), about 300 BCE

Ancient Greek

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

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 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

Wooden chair with woven cotton seat, back, footrest.

Chair (Kiti Cha Enzi), 19th century

Swahili

A work made of lithograph in black on buff wove paper.

The Musician, from Arts et Métiers, 1838

Bernard Gaillot

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