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Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

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

Max Ernst

Bowl-shaped terracotta vessel with a foot, glazed in red with black figures encircling its body.

Pyxis (Container for Personal Objects), late 6th century BCE

Ancient Greek

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 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 oil on canvas.

Spring Rains, c. 1924

Victor Higgins

A work made of creamware.

Plate, c. 1790

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 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

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 nautilus shell, ink, and gilded silver.

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

A work made of ivory, brass, tempera, and gold leaf.

Casket, 12th century

A work made of silver gilt, enamel, and gemstones.

Reliquary Cross with the Arms of the Veltheim Family, c. 1300

Black bowl with a narrow red base and embossed elements in red, including a floral border at top and bottom and Chinese characters in the middle.

Lacquer Tea Bowl 乾隆禦制雕漆盞, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark and period (1736–1795)

A work made of terracotta.

Statuette of a Seated Girl, 330-320 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of oak.

Desk, 1908

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of book with color off-set lithographs on white wove paper, with yellow wove paper cover.

The Hairy Who Sideshow, 1967

The Hairy Who (Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jim Falconer, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum)

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 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

A pair of white, blue, pink, and black cranes, one with wing extended, perch on a wide, knotty, snow-covered pine branch.

Cranes on snow-covered pine, c. 1834

Katsushika Hokusai

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