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A work made of oil on canvas.

Ice (4), 1989

Gerhard Richter

A work made of box construction.

For Juan Gris #7, c. 1954

Joseph Cornell

An oil painting that depicts the head and bare, right arm of a brown-skinned man who appers to emerge from behind an American flag. The flag is turned on its side so that the stripes are vertical, and the stars are on the right. The man grasps one of the stripes of the flag in his fist. In this way, the man seems to be imprisoned by the American flag, and is trying to break free.

Flag Day, 1966

Benny Andrews

A work made of oil on burlap.

Exotics, 1939

Paul Klee

Painting of two views in brown tones: at left, the back of a woman's head, her intricately braided hair forming a V shape; at right, the torso of a woman wearing a pleated dress with a V-shape neckline.

Parallel Manipulation, 1977

Christina Ramberg

Two figures, one red, one yellow, lying under white sheets with limbs sticking out.

Couple in Bed, 1977

Philip Guston

A work made of oil on canvas.

Drive in the Knife, May 1943

Matta

A work made of oil on canvas.

Christopher Columbus, 1938/39

Victor Brauner

Painting of multicolored rectangles and irregular interlocking shapes.

Twin Figures, March 1938

Jean Hélion

A work made of oil, pasted papers, charcoal, pencil and ink on canvas.

The Glass of Beer, 1914

Juan Gris

A rectangular structure made of wood, concrete, and rebar. On the right, a dining chair is encased in concrete, with metal bars jutting out.

Untitled, 1992

Doris Salcedo

A work made of pine, birch, vermillion, redwood, glass, paint, and wheels.

The Mysteriously Abandoned New Home, 1958

H. C. Westermann

Two Figures

Two Figures, 1955

Lynn Chadwick

A work made of oil on canvas.

Divided and Divided, 1941

Ivan Albright

Painting of long, thin pairs of symmetrical black triangles of various dimensions, joined at their bases along the centerline of the canvas to create a horizontal stripe-like effect on a white background.

Ascending and Descending Hero, 1965

Bridget Riley

A work made of encaustic and newspaper on canvas.

Target, 1961

Jasper Johns

A work made of egg tempera on panel.

El Mocho, 1936

Peter Hurd

A work made of oil on canvas.

A Small Tower (Moonlight), c. 1911/12

James Pryde

Sculpture of three flowers in different states of bloom in a simple vase.

Flowers in a Vase, 1951 (cast 1953)

Pablo Picasso

Vertically oriented painting of a dark, featureless figure with a bulb-shaped head utop an ivory archway, gray wispy object emanating from the figure. Below on arid ground lie two gray bean-like shapes, ghostly figures in the distance.

Untitled (Desert Landscape), 1934

Salvador Dalí

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