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A work made of oil on canvas.

Bad Times, 1970

Philip Guston

A work made of oil on linen.

Garden Airplane-Trap, 1935

Max Ernst

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1968

Karl Wirsum

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

Streetcar, 1951

Alexander Calder

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 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

A work made of oil on canvas.

Departure of Summer, 1914

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

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 monotype in black, on grayish ivory china paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé).

Still Life with Goldfish III, 1914/15

Henri Matisse

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

A work made of oil on canvas.

Summer Night in Arizona, 1944

Max Ernst

Tan thin rectangles repeat across the whole canvas.

Untitled #12, 1977

Agnes Martin

A work made of albumen print, from "fortifications".

Porte de Gentilly, Bd Kellermann, 1907

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

A work made of oil on canvas.

Primeval, 1962

Adolph Gottlieb

A work made of graphite and casein on panel.

Juan Soriano De Lacandón, 1964

Leonora Carrington

A work made of tempera on board.

The Cloisters, 1949

Andrew Wyeth

A work made of oil on canvas with wooden matchsticks, hairpins, coins, leather hair rollers, and string.

Untitled (Match-Woman I), 1920

Francis Picabia

A work made of oil on canvas.

Abstract Cityscape, 1924

Léopold Survage

A work made of oil on canvas.

PH-246, 1951/52

Clyfford Still

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

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