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A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book.

Ashi-gai, hamaguri, ko-gai, suzume-gai, akoya-gai, and katashi-gai, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)", 1789

Kitagawa Utamaro

This collage creates the illusion of both a woman's face and a home interior. Blond hair doubles as curtains in an entryway, while her eyes become framed artwork on the wall. The wall, or the top half of the face, is bright red, and doubles as a face mask.

Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment, 1934–35

Salvador Dalí

A work made of woodcut printed in black on ivory laid paper.

Laocoön, 1540/45

Nicolò Boldrini

A work made of oil on canvas.

And Man Created God in His Own Image, 1930–31

Ivan Albright

A work made of oil on canvas.

Ice (1), 1989

Gerhard Richter

Small iron sculpture of a dragon with a serpentine body, legs with talons, and long tail, all made of moveable joints.

Articulated Dragon, c. 1880

School of Myochin

A close-up view of five hickory leaves in vivid yellow, a white daisy in the lower middle portion, on a white background.

Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy, 1928

Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting depicting Christ anointed by a woman in yellow, seated centrally at a crowded table of guests with long thin grayish faces in colorful robes with strong white highlights. In the background, tall grey archways, a steepled building, and city architecture.

The Feast in the House of Simon, c. 1608–14

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) and workshop

Miniature model of a large, stately room with a circular marble tub sunk into the floor's center and fireplace at right. A central archway reveals a sitting area beyond.

E-25: French Bathroom and Boudoir of the Revolutionary Period, 1793-1804, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Heavy daubs of pigment form a crowded scene of roughly defined, finely dressed individuals in a brightly color park along a riverbank.

Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884", 1884

Georges Seurat

Round, red-brown bowl with small cracks its black interior. The outer surface is striated with tight horizontal lines and a diagonal pattern.

Bowl with Textured Surface Decoration in Basketry-Like Pattern, 900–1000

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

Terracotta vessel with a narrow neck and small, curved handles, areas of black indicating lost portions of a battle scene.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 340-330 BCE

Ixion Painter

Two cocoon-like objects drawn in yellow, with a background drawn in green suggesting an organic design.

Untitled, 1955

Kurt Seligmann

Print in black ink of an altarpiece with five panels framed by decorative columns. A large central panel of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child with cherubs is flanked by two stacked vertical panels of human figures on either side. Three arches top the structure.

Altarpiece with the Beautiful Virgin of Regensburg and Saints Christopher, Mary Magdalen, Florian and Catherine Standing in Niches, with God the Father Above, 1519/38

Albrecht Altdorfer

Miniature scale model of a large, furnished white-walled room with ornamental moulding, wooden flooring, upholstered wooden chairs, and a large decorative carpet in the floor's center.

A11: Rhode Island Parlor, c. 1820, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of silk and gilt-paper; compound satin weave.

Kesa, late Edo period (1789–1868), late 18th/early 19th century

Black glazed terracotta vessel with a short, curved handle on one side. Visible cracks indicate fragmentary repair.

Mug, about 460 BCE

Ancient Greek

Large painting of ancient arch ruins, statues, humans are small in comparison.

The Fountains, 1787/88

Hubert Robert

A work made of chromogenic print.

Abstraction on Concrete, 1940/62

Howard Dearstyne

Dark colored sculpture of muscular man standing in a contorted pose.

Adam, Modeled 1881, cast c. 1924

Auguste Rodin

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