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A squat oval-shaped ceramic jar, painted black, with a cylindrical top and two very small handles on either side of the top. Some visible paint loss.

Blackware Jar with Single Spout, 1200–1450

Chimú

Miniature dining room with mint-green walls and two large windows on the back wall, between which hangs a portrait of a Revolutionary-era man flanked by two vases. A formal wooden table with two chairs sits in the room's center, a fireplace with a mirror on the mantle and two tall stools at left.

A10: Massachusetts Dining Room, 1795, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Cubist painting of woman, bright yellow, green, purple colors.

The Red Armchair, December 16, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Dark twilight scene of a a brightly illuminated white cottage along the shore of an expansive body of water, seen through a thick of silhouetted trees.

Fisherman's Cottage, 1906

Harald Oscar Sohlberg

Light-colored snowscape with visible brushstrokes featuring a bridge in front of red and white barns and farmhouses, surrounded by trees.

Sandvika, Norway, 1895

Claude Monet

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 work made of encaustic and newspaper on canvas.

Target, 1961

Jasper Johns

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

Ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1877

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A group of light-skinned people accompanied by a horse and rider carry a palanquin, or box on two poles used to transport a person. A silhouetted backdrop of huts and trees in black and gray contrasts with the colored figures.

Mishima: Morning Mist (Mishima, asagiri), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido, c. 1833/34

Utagawa Hiroshige

A grand, double-height room with wood paneling, stenciled wall patterns, four hexagonal columns, and an interior balcony with guardrail at left.

Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room: Reconstruction at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1893/94 (original built) 1972 (original demolished) 1976/77 (reconstructed)

Adler & Sullivan, Architects

A light-brown, kettlebell-shaped vessel with a top spout features a red line drawing of a seated warrior facing right, wearing a stylized patterned dress and holding a weapon.

Stirrup Spout Vessel with Fineline Enthroned Warrior Motif, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

Conical-shaped bowl with sides angled outward, a smooth black interior, and a bumpy exterior that is black along the rim and graduates to a reddish-brown color.

Bowl with Textured Surface Decoration, 900–1000

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Lekanis (Covered Dish), 450-430 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of oil on canvas.

Alice, 1892

William Merritt Chase

To-scale great room with a double-height ceiling. The bottom half of each wall is clad in elaborately carved wooden panels. The right wall features a tall bay window, the left a fireplace flanked by suits of armor. A long, rustic table with bench is centered in the room.

E-1: English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A black-and-white photo collage featuring Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall building—a long, rectangular, single-story building with walls of glass windows—submerged in a large body of water at 45 degrees, against a cloud-filled sky.

The Titanic, 1978

Stanley Tigerman

A work made of etching on cream laid paper.

Skipping, 1921

Eileen Alice Soper

A work made of terracotta, black-figure with applied paint.

Pelike (Storage Jar), about 510-500 BCE

Ancient Greek

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 work made of ceramic and pigment.

Jar in the Form of a Phallus, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

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