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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 fluorescent paint and silkscreen ink on linen.

Flowers, 1964

Andy Warhol

A work made of oil on canvas.

Rainy Day, 1906

Frank Weston Benson

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 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

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Plate Four, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

A work made of oil on board.

Girl with Cat, 1937

Balthus

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Face Mask, Late 19th-early 20th century

Bwa

A work made of steel and aluminum.

Steel-Aluminum Plain, 1969

Carl Andre

Painting of artist drawing on easel, green landscape, stone walls surround him.

The Artist Looks at Nature, 1943

Charles Sheeler

A work made of bronze.

Woman (Elevation), Modeled 1912–15, cast 1927

Gaston Lachaise

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

A work made of graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan tracing paper, squared in charcoal, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board.

Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses), c. 1883

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

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 cyanotype.

Sculptural Frieze by Cavelier, Minerva Surrounded by the Muses of the Arts, c. 1868

Adolphe Terris

A work made of creamware.

Plate, c. 1790

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 gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Stamped Carhart’s, High Hat Panel Art Prints, August 15 1938), printed August 15, 1938

Unknown Maker

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

Blood Pool, 1992

Kiki Smith

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