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A work made of pen and black ink, on off-white wove card.

Initial Letters - Essentials at Fort Adobe - Letter T, 1881/1909

Frederic Remington

Painting of crucifixion, surrounded by scenes of Nazi violence against the Jewish community.

White Crucifixion, 1938

Marc Chagall

Large painted portrait of Mao wearing eyeshadow, blush, blue backdrop.

Mao, 1972

Andy Warhol

Painting of hanging, ripped apart animal carcass with seated man.

Figure with Meat, 1954

Francis Bacon

Abstract painting, black background covered with flicks and smudges of white and other colors.

Greyed Rainbow, 1953

Jackson Pollock

A abstract painting in which numerous planes of brown and gray, along with highlights of black and white, compose the figure of a man. The most recognizable features are a pair of clasped hands and the wave of his dark hair.

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, autumn 1910

Pablo Picasso

A painting of a light-skinned man in a suit and glasses standing in profile and a light-skinned woman with chin-length gray hair and wearing a full-length bright-pink robe stand in a courtyard with various sculptures. Between them is a large stone on a plinth, behind them a green abstracted seated figure, and off to the right a totem pole.

American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman), 1968

David Hockney

Blue and brown Cubist painting of Picasso with painterdz palette.

Portrait of Pablo Picasso, January–February 1912

Juan Gris

Cubist painting of woman, bright yellow, green, purple colors.

The Red Armchair, December 16, 1931

Pablo Picasso

White plaster statue of woman with protruding compartments, each adorned with fur pompom.

Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936

Salvador Dalí

Abstract painting in various bright colors—yellow, blue, red, green, orange, pink—with lines indicating building-like structures as well as canons in the lower right corner.

Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913

Vasily Kandinsky

A photo of dark room shows one large projection on the wall to the left and on the wall to the right two pedestals with two monitors stacked on top of both. Each screen shows a different view of a red-wigged, red-nosed clown in a striped outfit.

Clown Torture, 1987

Bruce Nauman

Cubist painting of distorted gray Paris buildings, red Eiffel Tower.

Champs de Mars: The Red Tower, 1911/23

Robert Delaunay

Painting of a woman in white dress with a baby in her lap.

Mother and Child, 1921

Pablo Picasso

A square white tile, rotated 90 degrees, crossed by black lines intersecting at 90-degree angles. A few of the shapes thus formed—some partial squares, some rectangles—are colored in a single shade of yellow, blue, black, or red.

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921

Piet Mondrian

A painting of strange and surreal scene in a desert landscape with mountains in the background. The scene features a giraffe that is on fire, disembodied forms and faces, and skeletal figures.

Inventions of the Monsters, 1937

Salvador Dalí

Painting of figures construction project amid smoky destruction, middle is pink crater.

The Rock, 1944–48

Peter Blume

Vibrantly colored painting of nude woman lying, and man standing, in lush landscape.

Earthly Paradise, 1916–20

Pierre Bonnard

A rectangular painting featuring color blocks in shades of purple, white, and red against a cream background. The purple rectangle at top is a loosely blended mix of pink and blue. The white block is almost yellow, though its outer edges are quite white. The red block at bottom pulses with varying shades.

Untitled (Purple, White, and Red), 1953

Mark Rothko

A life-size sculpture of a fallen tree made of lightly hued cypress wood. The carving is laid on the ground, and takes up almost the entire space of the room.

Hinoki, 2007

Charles Ray

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