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A work made of acrylic on canvas.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1968

Karl Wirsum

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

White (Bianco), 1952

Alberto Burri

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

Streetcar, 1951

Alexander Calder

A room with canon at left pointed toward a wall divided into four segments: wood grain at top left; at top right, gray tubes with halved spheres; at bottom left, blue sky and clouds; and at bottom right, a brown building with curtained windows. A left wall, segmented in two, features a nude female torso at top and detailed trees at bottom. The right wall features a top panel of wavy yellow and orange, while bottom panel has a pink, cutout-like motif.

On the Threshold of Liberty, February–March 1937

René Magritte

Scene in a diner, viewed through wrap-around glass windows, at night on an empty urban street. A light-skinned man and woman, he in a suit and she in a red dress, sit together at a triangular wood bar, eyes downcast. At left sits another man, his back to the viewer. Behind the counter is a light-skinned man in a white uniform. The interior lights cast a yellow glow that spills onto the street in pale green. Above the diner a sign reads, "Phillies."

Nighthawks, 1942

Edward Hopper

Painting of two red-and-orange flowers in the bottom half of the frame and beyond them, in the top half, reddish-brown hills.

Red Hills with Flowers, 1937

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of oil on canvas.

Departure of Summer, 1914

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

Tan thin rectangles repeat across the whole canvas.

Untitled #12, 1977

Agnes Martin

A work made of oil on canvas.

Summer Night in Arizona, 1944

Max Ernst

A work made of graphite and casein on panel.

Juan Soriano De Lacandón, 1964

Leonora Carrington

A work made of oil on canvas.

Primeval, 1962

Adolph Gottlieb

A work made of tempera on board.

The Cloisters, 1949

Andrew Wyeth

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 oil on canvas with wooden matchsticks, hairpins, coins, leather hair rollers, and string.

Untitled (Match-Woman I), 1920

Francis Picabia

Box construction lined with printed text. A white sphere and clear blue marble are suspended between two horizontal glass shelves. At bottom left is a clear glass goblet filled with coral, shells, and paper. At bottom right, a white ceramic hand holding a cup.

Soap Bubble Set, 1948

Joseph Cornell

A work made of oil on canvas.

PH-246, 1951/52

Clyfford Still

A work made of oil on canvas.

Abstract Cityscape, 1924

Léopold Survage

Ghostly white face formed by a winding line, creating forehead wrinkles, nose, chin. Droopy eyes and a small black heart.

In the Magic Mirror, 1934

Paul Klee

A tall, spindly human figure in rough bronze with an elongated torso and arms and dramatically long, thin, kneeless legs appears to be walking mid-stride, both feet on the ground but quite far apart

Walking Man II, 1960

Alberto Giacometti

Painting of three black youths gardening, residential towers loom in the background.

Many Mansions, 1994

Kerry James Marshall

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