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A work made of wood and pigment.

Tray (Opon Ifa), Mid–20th century, probably 1930s

Yoruba

A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Hydria (Water Jar), about 300 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of tempera on board.

The Cloisters, 1949

Andrew Wyeth

A work made of earthenware.

Plate, 1780–1820

Artist unknown

A work made of oil on canvas.

Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony), 1880

John Singer Sargent

Four distinct motifs, each abstract, colorful, and cartoonish, float sequentially, one on top of the other, against a shiny, black background. One looks like an expanding galaxy. The top one, a figure, has a squat body and a pointy head and is grinning.

Mr. Pointy, 2011

Takashi Murakami

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

No. 32: Seba, from the series "Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido (Kisokaido rokujukyu tsugi no uchi)", c. 1835/38

Utagawa Hiroshige

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

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

A work made of earthenware and glaze.

Vase, c. 1905

Fritz Albert

A work made of limestone with traces of polychromy.

Buddha, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), c. 725/50

A close-up view of five hickory leaves in vivid yellow, a white daisy in the lower middle portion, on a white background.

Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy, 1928

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of gilt bronze, marble, and glass.

Girandoles, 1848–51

Isaac F. Baker

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Opening at the Museum of Modern Art Buenos Aires, 1963

Sameer Makarius

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

Deep earthenware soup bowl with two swirly designed handles and cover topped with a flower shaped element. The bowl is decorated in black with griffin and palmette pattern on rim and with a scene in an oval depicting a running male figure in a winged helmet handing a baby over to the lady sitting on the ground.

Tureen, 1810/20

Creil Pottery

A work made of enamel on aluminum.

Maggie's Brain, 1995

Christopher Wool

A work made of wood, kaolin, and pigment.

Dance Staff, Late 19th/early 20th century

Baule

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

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