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A wooden carving of a male figure. The figure has a distinctive face, with oval-shaped eyes and mouth, and wears a cap on his head. His body is covered in various shells, bones, feathers, fabric, and metal nails, and he holds a mirror-sealed resin packet over his stomach.

Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi), Probably early to mid-19th century

Vili

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

Dark atmospheric painting of sun, obscured by clouds between two tree groves.

Forest and Sun, 1927

Max Ernst

A rather stark, clean-lined painting shows a fireplace mantle topped with a clock against a bare wall with wood paneling. From the back wall of the fireplace, a black locomotive emerges, belching smoke and riding an unseen track in the the air.

La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed), 1938

René Magritte

A herondz silhouette sits amongst the brush in a golden hued forest.

The Home of the Heron, 1893

George Inness

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

Mother and Child, 1921

Pablo Picasso

Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.

At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–95

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Frosted glass box with six compartments for yellow, green, blue butterflies.

Untitled (Butterfly Habitat), c. 1940

Joseph Cornell

Extremely large muddy gray painting, with three looping cords hanging at different lengths.

Near the Lagoon, 2002

Jasper Johns

Painting of four figures in blue, red, brown dresses playing croquet.

Croquet Scene, 1866

Winslow Homer

Ecuadorian landscape with people, palm trees, waterfall, and volcano in background.

View of Cotopaxi, 1857

Frederic Edwin Church

Still life of geranium plant, fruit, water pitcher, and two cats.

Still Life with Geranium, 1906

Henri Matisse

Wall installation of black outlined green letters spelling out phrase in English.

TAKEN FROM HERE TO WHERE IT CAME FROM AND TAKEN TO A PLACE AND USED IN SUCH A MANNER THAT IT CAN ONLY REMAIN AS A REPRESENTATION OF WHAT IT WAS WHERE IT CAME FROM, 1980

Lawrence Weiner

Painting of a basket of green and red-yellow apples spilling over into a white cloth placed on a wooden table, with a dark green bottle and a plate of pale biscuits behind.

The Basket of Apples, c. 1893

Paul Cezanne

Mask with protruding stylized elephant trunk, red feather pom-pom, attached beard.

Helmet Mask (Mukenga), Possibly late 19th to mid -20th century

Kuba

Pastel drawing of two figures in a sailboat, bright multi-colored clouds.

Flower Clouds, c. 1903

Odilon Redon

Large mound of rocks intersected radially by long rectangular mirrors.

Chalk-Mirror Displacement, 1969

Robert Smithson

Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

Claude Monet

Large abstract painting, overlapping zigzagging layers of orange, cream, red, and black.

PH-774, 1958

Clyfford Still

Photograph of interior of large art gallery, visitors stand and look at paintings.

Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago, 1990

Thomas Struth

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