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Wooden chair with woven cotton seat, back, footrest.

Chair (Kiti Cha Enzi), 19th century

Swahili

Still life painting of dead waterfowl and vegetables in windowsill.

Still Life with Game Fowl, 1600/03

Juan Sánchez Cotán

Small woman seated on a pedestal with a large human-sized drum on her head.

Female Caryatid Drum (Pinge), c. 1930-c. 1950

Senufo

A dark-brown painted sculpture with hints of orange showing through of a slim face with a long neck. The lips are drawn in a pout, the cheeks sunken, the hair pulled back in a swirl pattern and falling down in a slim column.

Head, Mid–late 19th century

Fang

Painting in shades of dark red, brown, and black, depicting figures crowded in a doorway of a small hut, engaged in conflict. One man looms in front of the doorway with a stoic expression, and four other figures kneel and stand beside him. One points a sword at his face.

Zapata, 1930

José Clemente Orozco

Assemblage in glass case of plastic and soil resembling skeleton of a mechanical beast.

Oonagh MacCumhail: The Case of the Entered Novitiate, 2002

Matthew Barney

Painting of a woman and an older white man holding a pitchfork, both seen from the waist up. They stand side by side with stern expressions, in front of a white house with a peaked roof.

American Gothic, 1930

Grant Wood

Purple, black, blue inked drawing of shapes, human arm, music sheet.

Perilous Night, 1982

Jasper Johns

A pensive faced woman sits, slightly hunched, holding a book.

Interrupted Reading, c. 1870

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Still-life painting, fish, open oysters, eel, lemon on tablecloth.

Fish (Still Life), 1864

Édouard Manet

Miniature Georgian-era dining room with pale green walls, ornate white trim, long glass table.

E-10: English Dining Room of the Georgian Period, 1770-90, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A finely detailed drawing of architectural ornament in an organic style made up of whiplash appendages and spiral stalks.

System of Architectural Ornament, Plate 16, Impromptu!, 1922

Louis H. Sullivan

A work made of acrylic paint.

Wall Drawing #821: A black square divided horizontally and vertically into four equal parts, each with a different direction of alternating flat and glossy bands, 1997

Sol LeWitt

Color pastel drawing of ballerinas in tutus on stage, watched by audience.

Ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1877

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Four women with musical instruments lounge in a massive garden courtyard.

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam, 1834

Carl Blechen

Eight ink still life drawings of stacked bookcases.

Chaekgeori, late 19th -early 20th century

Painting of centaur with harp, in water, surrounded by mermaids and mermen.

In the Sea, 1883

Arnold Böcklin

Deeply shadowed photograph of woman sitting hunched lit by single warm light.

Untitled #88, 1981

Cindy Sherman

Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left. The background is a feathered swirl suggesting floral pattern in cool pale tones of gray, purple, pink, and blue.

Woman at Her Toilette, 1875–80

Berthe Morisot

Portrait of a woman in white with a bonnet perched on an architectural feature painting something to her right, a spouting water fountain, greenery, and a an ornate, low white fence behind her. Beside her, a man leans back, eying the canvas.

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907

John Singer Sargent

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