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Large painted portrait of Mao wearing eyeshadow, blush, blue backdrop.

Mao, 1972

Andy Warhol

A bronze lion, deep green and muscular, looks out in the distance from its pedestal in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lion (One of a Pair, South Pedestal), 1893

Edward Kemeys

Portrait of a woman in white with a bonnet perched on an architectural feature painting something to her right, a spouting water fountain, greenery, and a an ornate, low white fence behind her. Beside her, a man leans back, eying the canvas.

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907

John Singer Sargent

A work made of color lithograph on ivory japanese paper.

Ding Dong Daddy No Fault Art, 1978

William Aubrey Walmsley

A work made of pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on tan laid paper.

Mars Sending Gorgon to Slay the Arts, n.d.

Pietro Testa

A work made of cor-ten and stainless steel.

Clothespin, 1975

Claes Oldenburg

A collection of rough detail sketches of the elevation, structure, perspective, and aerial view of a circular building.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Four Sketches, 1999

Oscar Niemeyer

Photograph of a young girl in a doorwary wearing a black dress and a woman in a long, draping garment with her arm around her.

Blessed Art Thou Among Women, from "American Pictorial Photography, Series II" (1901); edition 34/150, 1899

Gertrude Käsebier

Terracotta pitcher decorated with red figures on a black background, with a slender neck and base. One side features a woman holding a fan; the reverse, a stylized fan pattern.

Oinochoe (Pitcher), end of 4th century BCE

Ancient Greek

Abstract painting, black background covered with flicks and smudges of white and other colors.

Greyed Rainbow, 1953

Jackson Pollock

A work made of engraving on cream laid paper.

Art of Writing, from Encyclopédie, 1760

Aubin

Painting of a prominent orange-red circle imposed on the center of a canvas depicting a grove of trees behind a stone wall and an orange-red sky in gradient.

The Banquet, 1958

René Magritte

Painting of a crowd of well-dressed light-skinned people in an open, snowy field surrounded by large rolling hills. At center a woman in a bright-yellow coat and skirt holds the hand of a child in red, who pulls to turn her toward the others.

Love of Winter, 1914

George Wesley Bellows

Color print of travelers of foot and horseback following a grassy route flanked by Japanese bungalows and groves of trees.

Hamamatsu, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido), c. 1837/42

Utagawa Hiroshige

Wooden sculpture of seated king surrounded by family.

Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá), 1910-14

Olowe of Ise

A work made of color lithograph on off-white wove paper.

WPA Art Class Painting, 1940

Eleanor Coen

A work made of oil on canvas.

Irises, 1914–17

Claude Monet

Abstract painting composed of a central tangle of vibrant colors—purple, pink, orange, green, red—on a mostly gray background, subtly divided into rectangular areas.

City Landscape, 1955

Joan Mitchell

A work made of ink, graphite, and colored pencil on mylar.

Arts Club of Chicago, 1996

John Vinci

A work made of wood and paint.

Parrot, 1870–90

Wilhelm Schimmel

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