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A work made of wood, pigment, and fiber.

Face Mask (Kanaga), Early/mid–20th century

Dogon

A work made of oil on canvas.

Isaku Yanaihara, 1956

Alberto Giacometti

A work made of oil on canvas.

Ballet Skirt or Electric Light (from the White Rose Motif), 1927

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of wood and beads.

Female Figure, Early/mid–20th century

Hehe

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Bowl Depicting Abstract Plants, Probably Cactus, 180 BCE–500 CE

Nasca

A drawing of the ornamentation for an architectural plate with circular and organic elements. Title reads, "Interpenetration with resultant forms and development."

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 13, Interpenetration, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of oil on canvas.

Among the Redwoods, 1920

Wallace L. DeWolf

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; uncut hosoban triptych, urushi-e.

Beauties of the Three Capitals: Shimabara in Kyoto (right), Yoshiwara in Edo (center), and Shinmachi in Osaka (left), c. 1755

Torii Kiyohiro

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Huckster Cart, 1913

Robert Spencer

A work made of silver-plated bronze.

Pair of Candlesticks, c. 1906

Robert Riddle Jarvie

A work made of hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e.

The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo II casting a curse at the hour of the ox, c. 1745

Torii Kiyomasu II

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Flaring Bowl with Curving Step Design on Interior Rim, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Hydria (Water Jar), 480-470 BCE

The Orchard Painter

Painting of an Indigenous woman native to Mexico bent and seated on a brown floor, using red thread to create a geometric design on a backstrap loom. Earth tones dominate, while a dresser in the background and the bottom portion of the woman's white dress are a deep blue.

Weaving, 1936

Diego Rivera

A work made of soft ground etching and aquatint on white laid paper.

Doorway to Illusion, 1929

Arthur B. Davies

Thin, flat metal shapes form a loosely symmetrical sculpture atop a wide base. Near the top, radiating spindles form an open, cone-like shape.

Maquette for Richard J. Daley Center Sculpture, 1964

Pablo Picasso

A work made of thirteen pages of text on paper (approximately 6500 words) without illustrations, published by r. & j.e. taylor, london, 1839.

Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or the Process by which Natural Objects May Be Made to Delineate Themselves without the Aid of the Artist's Pencil, Read before the Royal Society, January 31, 1839

William Henry Fox Talbot

Black-and-white photograph of two iconic skyscrapers in New York City, the Chrysler Building and the Daily News Building. The angles of the building intersect and light and shadow play off the windows of a building in the foreground.

Contrasting No. 331 East 39th Street with Chrysler Building and Daily News Building, Manhattan, November 9, 1938

Berenice Abbott

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Hodogaya: Katabira River and Katabira Brige (Hodogaya, Katabiragawa Katabirabashi)—No. 5, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido, c. 1847/52

Utagawa Hiroshige

The outer hard case of an Egyptian mummy is painted with a gold face, a blue geometric wig, a colorful bird across the chest, and various scenes across the lower portion featuring figures of gods and goddesses.

Coffin and Mummy of Paankhaenamun, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, reign of Osorkon I (about 924–889 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

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