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A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Title Page, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

A work made of lithograph in black on buff wove paper.

The Tailor, from Arts et Métiers, 1838

Bernard Gaillot

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

A work made of porcelain painted in underglaze blue.

Dish with Dragons Writhing amid Floral Scrolls, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Zhengde reign mark and period (1506–1521)

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 pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

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

Max Ernst

A work made of ivory.

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

Yoruba

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 bronze.

Suffering, 1907

Constantin Brancusi

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

Ball Clock, 1948–69

Irving Harper

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

Group of Trees, n.d.

Paul Dougherty

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 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 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 terracotta, black-glaze.

Hydria (Water Jar), about 300 BCE

Ancient Greek

A tall, skinny stoneware vase in red, with a shiney, polished finish.

Bottle, 1962

Gertrud Natzler

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

Croquet Scene, 1866

Winslow Homer

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