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Terracotta vessel glazed in black, decorated with an orange figure of a woman holding a shield and a spear.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 460-450 BCE

Achilles Painter

A work made of color woodblock print.

Woman in Summer Clothing (Portrait of Nakatani Tsuru), 1920

Hashiguchi Goyô

A work made of oil on canvas with wooden matchsticks, hairpins, coins, leather hair rollers, and string.

Untitled (Match-Woman I), 1920

Francis Picabia

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Dance Staff, Late 19th/early 20th century

Baule

Three-part bronze sculpture set of two clenched hands and a man's face with closed eyes and mouth, an object in one hand.

Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln, Cast in plaster 1860; cast in bronze by 1888

Leonard Wells Volk

Expressive painting with an almost blurry effect of three women dressed in black and white examining and cutting large pieces of fabric.

Shop Girls, c. 1912

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones

Box construction lined with printed text. A white sphere and clear blue marble are suspended between two horizontal glass shelves. At bottom left is a clear glass goblet filled with coral, shells, and paper. At bottom right, a white ceramic hand holding a cup.

Soap Bubble Set, 1948

Joseph Cornell

A work made of oil on canvas.

PH-246, 1951/52

Clyfford Still

A work made of oil on canvas.

Abstract Cityscape, 1924

Léopold Survage

A small statue consisting of a multicolored rectangular base and a painted mummified figure oriented vertically, wearing an elaborate striped headdress with a plume.

Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of maple.

"Oceana" Box, c. 1935

Russel Wright

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Ise, from an untitled series of Thirty-six Immortal Poets, c. 1767/68

Suzuki Harunobu

Ghostly white face formed by a winding line, creating forehead wrinkles, nose, chin. Droopy eyes and a small black heart.

In the Magic Mirror, 1934

Paul Klee

A work made of earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes 三彩铅釉陶器.

Dragon-Handled Amphora 三彩双龙耳瓶, Tang dynasty, (A.D. 618–907), 1st half of 8th century 唐 (公元 618-907),八世纪前半段

A work made of earthenware, glaze, and engobe.

Jazz Bowl, c. 1931

Viktor Schreckengost

Bronze bust with a dark patina featuring a bearded man with curly hair, the patina on his nose worn to a lighter shade.

Bust of Heraclitus, Late 19th century reproduction

Ancient Greek

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

They Loose Dogs on the Bull, plate 25 from The Art of Bullfighting, 1814/16, published 1816

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of periodical with letterpress decorated wrappers, two issues.

Veshchʹ : mezhdunarodnoe obozrenie sovremennogo iskusstva (Subject: international review of modern art), 1922

El Lissitzky

A work made of oil on canvas.

A Friendly Warning, 1881–90

Thomas Hicks

A tall, spindly human figure in rough bronze with an elongated torso and arms and dramatically long, thin, kneeless legs appears to be walking mid-stride, both feet on the ground but quite far apart

Walking Man II, 1960

Alberto Giacometti

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