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A rectangular painting on light, vivid orange features a deeper orange block set atop a yellow block. The colors of each element are only loosely blended and lightly applied, so various tones are visible.

Untitled (Painting), 1953/54

Mark Rothko

A work made of cor-ten and stainless steel.

Clothespin, 1975

Claes Oldenburg

A work made of spiral-bound book with fifteen pages of drawings in graphite, fiber-tipped pens, charcoal, and colored pencil on cream wove paper.

Talent ART Tablet, n.d.

Marion Perkins

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

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Bowl with Large Diamond-Shaped Area Interior with Dotted Lines and Diamonds, and Interlocking Stepped Motifs, 950–1400

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

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 gelatin silver print.

Brother and Pop Art, 1965

Billy Abernathy

A work made of paper.

Bauhaus: Art As Life Poster, 2012

APFEL

Black glazed terracotta vessel with a short, curved handle on one side. Visible cracks indicate fragmentary repair.

Mug, about 460 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of wood and paint.

Parrot, 1870–90

Wilhelm Schimmel

A work made of albumen print, from "art in old paris".

91 Rue de Turenne, 1911

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

A work made of the reflecting pool, 1977-79, 6:58 min.; moonblood, 1977-79, 12:48 min.; silent life, 1979, 13:14 min.; ancient of days, 1979-81, 12:21 min.; vegetable memory, 1978-80, 15:13 min. color video, sound (projection); 62 min. loop.

The Reflecting Pool: Collected Works, 1977–80

Bill Viola

A work made of mahogany and white pine, with mahogany, birch, and maple veneers.

Cylinder Desk and Bookcase, 1800–10

Artist unknown

In a stark desert landscape, an older man sits in the foreground, illuminated, with a newspaper. Arranged evenly across the land behind him, smaller than perspective would indicate, are a faded child holding a hula hoop, a man holding a melting piano, a standing woman, and a figure near the horizon.

A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano, 1936

Salvador Dalí

Abstract painting with dominant red, yellow, and blue tones. Densely commingled forms, many outlined in black or brown strokes, fill the canvas.

The Key, 1946

Jackson Pollock

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Pont des Arts, Paris, 1931

Ilse Bing

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 wide-mouthed drinking cup glazed in black with two handles extending from opposite sides.

Skyphos (Drinking Cup), 410-400 BCE

Ancient Greek

Tall city buildings seen at close range from the water, illuminated by hundreds of lighted windows and suffused with a dreamy light-blue and gray haze. Boats below emit blue steam.

Afterglow, c. 1913

Jonas Lie

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