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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

Dark abstract sculpture composed of two rounded shapes atop long slender rods.

Tanktotem I, 1952

David Smith

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

PH-774, 1958

Clyfford Still

Large painting of people in a crowded park, brushstrokes are dots.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Georges Seurat

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

Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago, 1990

Thomas Struth

Abstract painting with soft shapes of brown, pink, yellow, red.

The Plough and the Song, 1946–47

Arshile Gorky

Two rectangular canvases, one in yellow the other in grey, joined horizontally.

Rodeo, 1971

Brice Marden

Robe with vertical bands of yellow, blue, and red abstract designs.

Woman's Robe, 1840/60

White sculpture of various sized rectangles stacked and interlocked with one another.

Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid, 1926

Georges Vantongerloo

A textile featuring two pheasants in the upper portion facing one another, strands of golden beads held between them in their beaks, symmetrical garlands above and below them, a golden structure near the middle, and curled ribbons embroidered near the bottom.

The Pheasants from the "Verdures of the Vatican" Series, c. 1799

Jean-Demosthene Dugourc

Winter landscape painting with rocky stream lined by orange leafed trees.

Icebound, c. 1889

John Henry Twachtman

Half circle of fabric, embroidered with Virgin Mary, saints, prophets, and plant motif.

Cope, 1490/1517, with later restoration

Blue and gray abstract painting with lines of yellow, white, and red crossing vertically.

The Beginning, 1946

Barnett Newman

Painting of four nude women composed of geometric shapes, against patterned background.

Bathers by a River, 1909–10, 1913, and 1916–1917

Henri Matisse

Painting of a beach on a cloudy day with several sailboats on the water, a few rowboats on the shore, and two groupings of people on the sand.

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867

Claude Monet

Seated wooden Buddha statue with with forefinger touching thumb.

Seated Bodhisattva, 8th century

A three-part panel featuring a variety of scenes, vertically stacked and richly painted. The central panel features the Virgin Mary and and Child flanked by archangels Gabriel and Michael, twelve disciples below them in grid formation.

Triptych Icon, Late 17th century

Large painting on seven panels of dark landscape with small abstract shapes.

Untitled, 1928

Yves Tanguy

Multi-paneled painting depicting a watchtower, geese, and various beach items.

Watchtower with Geese (Hochsitz mit Gänsen), 1987/88

Sigmar Polke

Large panel of red fabric covered in repeating white floral pattern.

Mohnköpfe (Poppyheads) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric), 1900

Koloman (Kolo) Moser

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