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A work made of black crayon on off-white wove card.

Group of Trees, n.d.

Paul Dougherty

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 ivory.

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

Yoruba

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

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

Max Ernst

A work made of etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint on ivory laid paper.

A Moor Caught by the Bull in the Ring, plate 8 from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

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

Ball Clock, 1948–69

Irving Harper

A white-toned, blocklike sculpture with rough areas and three highly polished nude figures emerging from the rough portions. In front, a mournful man and woman grasp tightly at each other's hands while from behind, another figure buries his head in his own crossed arms, the woman's upturned hand holding onto them.

The Solitude of the Soul, Modeled in plaster 1901; sculpted in marble 1914

Lorado Taft

A work made of bronze.

Suffering, 1907

Constantin Brancusi

Painting of four figures in blue, red, brown dresses playing croquet.

Croquet Scene, 1866

Winslow Homer

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

Salt Cellar, c. 1530

the Milan Marsyas Painter

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 calabash, sticks, cloth, and string.

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

Asante

A work made of book with woodcuts and letterpress in black on cream laid paper.

The Art of Wrestling: Eighty-Five Pieces (Ringer Kunst: Fünff und Achtzig Stücke), 1539

Lucas Cranach, II

A work made of copper and silver inlay.

Vase, c. 1925

Jean Dunand

Wooden chair with woven cotton seat, back, footrest.

Chair (Kiti Cha Enzi), 19th century

Swahili

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

"Untitled" (Last Light), 1993

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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 etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint and burin on ivory laid paper.

The Moors had settled in Spain, giving up the superstitions of the Koran, adopted this art of hunting, and spear a bull in the open, plate three from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of color woodblock print.

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

Onchi Kōshirō

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