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Abstract painting with heavy white, gray, and brown paint applied in thick brushstrokes, suggesting wings emerging from a dark background.

The Annunciation, 1957/59

Jay DeFeo

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware with cobalt glaze.

Tibor (Jar), 1700–50

Talavera Poblana

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

The Musician, from Arts et Métiers, 1838

Bernard Gaillot

Tall black painted wooden cabinet, white trim, shape of skyscraper.

Skyscraper Cabinet, c. 1927

Paul Theodore Frankl

A detailed drawing of a room with multiple sitting areas marked by two decorative rugs and various room dividers.

F. H. Bresler Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Interior Perspective, c. 1904

George Mann Niedecken

A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Lekanis (Covered Dish), 450-430 BCE

Ancient Greek

Color print of a Japanese landscape with a person on horseback in the foreground, flanked by several trees and low green hills. Beyond this figure, others on ferries cross a winding river in rowboats toward tent-like structures in the distance. Vertical text in Japanese peppers the top half of the work, with text in a vertical red banner at upper right.

Mitsuke: Ferries Crossing the Tenryu River (Mitsuke, Tenryugawa funawatashi), 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

A work made of wood and pigment.

Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola), Mid–late 19th century

Luluwa

Narrow, vertical print of a Japanese woman in partial view, wearing a billowing pink-orange kimono and holding a yellow umbrella.

Beauty Under an Umbrella in the Snow, c. 1770

Suzuki Harunobu

A work made of brass.

Head (Uhunmwun Elao), 18th/early 19th century

Edo

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Art Institute of Chicago), 1985

André Kertész

A work made of paper.

Gary Hume New Art Close-Up 1, 2004

Graphic Thought Facility

A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.

Chicago Art Exposition, 1982

Jack Tworkov

A work made of oil on canvas.

Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1799

John Ritto Penniman

A work made of blue-green title label on yellow paper wrappers.

Portfolio wrapper, from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

A work made of oil on canvas.

Drive in the Knife, May 1943

Matta

A work made of acrylic, silkscreen ink, and diamond dust on linen.

Diamond Dust Joseph Beuys, 1980

Andy Warhol

A work made of color photo-etching with aquatint, mezzotint, and drypoint on white wove paper.

The Art of Mnemonics, 1968

Vera Berdich

A work made of portfolio cover.

Portfolio Cover for Serigraphs by Students of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Green glazed vessel decorated with floral adornments, tapered and flared at the neck, with two small cylindrical handles.

Jar with Tubular Handles, Peonies, “Endless Knot,” Pendant Balls, and Pendant Lozenges, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark and period (1736–1795)

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