Terracotta pitcher with a black glaze, faint stripes incised around its bulbous body.

Oinochoe (Pitcher), 550-500 BCE

Ancient Etruscan

A work made of oil on canvas.

Nude on a Table, 2001

John Currin

A work made of oil on canvas.

Nouvart Dzeron, A Daughter of Armenia, 1912

Ralph Elmer Clarkson

A work made of oil on canvas.

George Franklin Archer and the Archer Residence, 1871

Charles Spencer Humphreys

A work made of oil on canvas.

Broadway, 1985

William Conger

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, satin, and stem stitches; french knots; two loom widths joined.

Bedcover in the Arts and Crafts Style, Early 20th century (based on 17th–century English designs)

A woodblock print of a snowy black and white landscape of houses, trees and mountains. In foreground, three hunched figures wearing blue and yellow, walk in the snow.

Kanbara: Evening Snow (Kanbara, yoru no yuki), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

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

Hairy Who (cat-a-log), 1969

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

A work made of oil on canvas.

Fleeing Ghost, 1929

Paul Klee

An abstracted work made of irregular pieces of stretched canvas bonded together, creating a funnel shape that protrudes out to form a dark hole.

Untitled, 1960

Lee Bontecou

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

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

Max Ernst

A work made of oil on canvas.

The River, 1942

O. Louis Guglielmi

A work made of acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen.

Big Electric Chair, 1967–68

Andy Warhol

A work made of oil on canvas.

After Rain, Chicago, 1911

Frank Charles Peyraud

A work made of gold and green jasper.

Ring with a Scarab Bezel, Second Intermediate Period, Dynasty 15 (about 1650–1550 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of padauk.

Bench (from the Helene Koerting Fischer home), 1938

Wharton Esherick

A work made of oil on canvas.

Catskill Mountains, 1870

George Inness

A work made of pine, paint, and gold leaf.

Eagle, 1870–1900

John Haley Bellamy

A work made of oil on yellow poplar panel.

New England Country Seat, 1800–20

Artist unknown

Oil portrait with man in suit, dim green background.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, c. 1896

Hermann Dudley Murphy