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A work made of wood, pigment, and kaolin.

Headdress for Gelede (Igi), Early/mid–20th century

Yoruba

Shallow terracotta pan-like cup with black glaze, incised floral decoration at bottom, and handles on either side.

Stemless Kylix (Drinking Cup), 460-450 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of silver gilt and rock crystal.

Circular Reliquary with Domed Roof and Relics of Saints Godehard and Bernward, 1375/1400

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 linen.

Garden Airplane-Trap, 1935

Max Ernst

Three adult figures walk on a boardwalk over reed-filled water, one carrying a baby, wearing clothes in red, blue, and gray tones, with shadowy trees and a tent structure in the background. Japanese characters in red and black ink appear at upper left and bottom right.

No. 37: Miyanokoshi, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

A three-part panel featuring a variety of scenes, vertically stacked and richly painted. The central panel features the Virgin Mary and and Child flanked by archangels Gabriel and Michael, twelve disciples below them in grid formation.

Triptych Icon, Late 17th century

A work made of tin-glazed earthenware.

Vase Depicting a Phoenixlike Bird, 1700–50

Talavera Poblana

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1968

Karl Wirsum

A work made of digital chromogenic print; edition number six of ten.

Untitled, 2000/01

Gregory Crewdson

A work made of oil on canvas.

Nouvart Dzeron, A Daughter of Armenia, 1912

Ralph Elmer Clarkson

A work made of oil, enamel, metallic paint, fabric, synthetic polymer, tar, paper, thread, and gold leaf on fabric.

White (Bianco), 1952

Alberto Burri

Painting of a small stream in the middle of the woods. In the center of the painting, there is a small waterfall over a large boulder. Radiant beams of sunlight penetrate the thick forest of birch and other trees, and a small bird sings from a broken branch over the waterfall.

Mountain Brook, 1863

Albert Bierstadt

A work made of sheet steel, brass, wire, and paint.

Streetcar, 1951

Alexander Calder

A work made of oil on canvas.

The River, 1942

O. Louis Guglielmi

Tall red-brown mahogany clock with brass trim.

Tall Clock, 1912

George Grant Elmslie

A work made of gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "women are beautiful" (1981).

New York (Couple on Steps of Metropolitan Museum of Art), c. 1971

Garry Winogrand

A work made of iris print on paper.

Competition Proposal for Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Interior Perspective, 1999

Steven Holl

A work made of terracotta, black-figure with applied paint.

Pelike (Storage Jar), about 510-500 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of wood, pigment, glass beads, cowrie shells, fabric, and thread.

Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash), Late 19th-mid 20th century

Kuba

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