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French toile fabric with oriental scenes in red on a white ground. Pattern repeats and includes scenes of life.

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), c. 1786

Jean Baptiste Huet

Film still of ocean, orange sunset, small boat in shadow.

Caribs' Leap/Western Deep, 2002

Steve McQueen

Painting of woman, arms crossed on brown desk, staring at goldfish.

Woman before an Aquarium, 1921–23

Henri Matisse

Tall black painted wooden cabinet, white trim, shape of skyscraper.

Skyscraper Cabinet, c. 1927

Paul Theodore Frankl

Wooden sculpture of seated king surrounded by family.

Veranda Post (Òpó Ògògá), 1910-14

Olowe of Ise

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

Painting of four women with blue shawls walking near red fence.

Arlésiennes (Mistral), 1888

Paul Gauguin

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

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 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

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

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

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

Ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1877

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

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

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

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