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A square-shape textile with a dual multicolor border features a painted five-by-four grid of images with the repeated face of a Black woman with short hair, Bessie Smith. Her face appears blue in each instance, while the outline of her facial features, her hair, and clothing alternate colors in varying shades of yellow and orange. The background of each square likewise alternates between shades of blue and green, some with an influx of red.

American Collection #5: Bessie's Blues, January 19, 1997

Faith Ringgold

A work made of terracotta, white-ground and black-figure technique.

Kantharos (Wine Cup) in the Shape of a Female Head, about 480 BCE

Ancient Greek

Loosely painted image of an open-air train station. On the right, a parked train gives off an enormous plumb of white smoke, making the scene look as though it were full of clouds. A huddled mass of barely discernible people crowd around the train on both sides of the tracks. Blue, green, and gray tones dominate.

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877

Claude Monet

A work made of oil on panel.

Fête d'Après-Midi, c. 1880

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli

A work made of bronze.

Jean-Marie Fruchard, Modeled c. 1832–35, cast 1929–30

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of oil on panel.

An Elegant Company, 1632

Pieter Codde

A work made of wood and pigment.

Female Headdress (Nimba, D'mba, or Yamban), Mid 19th-early 20th century

Baga

A work made of bronze.

Heracles (Archer), 1909

Emile-Antoine Bourdelle

A work made of oil on glass.

The Dance, 1940

Kurt Seligmann

A work made of oil on panel.

The Capture of Samson, 1609–10

Peter Paul Rubens

A work made of silver.

Stater Coin Depicting Pegasus Flying, 400-330 BCE

Ancient Greek

A woman with dark brown skin and an afro reclines on a patterned yellow couch, her legs crossed in the foreground. She wears hoop earrings, a loose purple top, and yellow eyeshadow.

Can't We Just Sit Down and Talk it Over?, 2006–07

Mickalene Thomas

A work made of oil on canvas.

Bullfight, 1865–66

Édouard Manet

A work made of lithograph, from thin, transparent paper, from four stones, red-orange and brown (keystone), orange, and ochre inks, on ivory laid paper.

Draped Figure, Standing, 1891

James McNeill Whistler

A work made of wood, pigment, resin, and abrus seeds.

Female Figure, Early-mid 20th century

Kantana

A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.

Figures Seated by a River, n.d.

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the God Dionysos, after 146 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of wood and pigment.

Male Figure, Early/mid–20th century

Mbole

A work made of wood, pigment, glass beads, and thread.

Female Figure with Rooster (Olumeye), Late 19th or early 20th century

Yoruba

A work made of bronze.

The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone, Modeled c. 1881–82, cast 1902–24

Auguste Rodin

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