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Replica of a sitting room with pale-blue walls and a wave-patterned wallpaper border. Heavy red velvet curtains on the center wall frame two tall windows, between which hangs a painting of a woman in a gold frame. A beige stone fireplace is at left, an open arched doorway at right.

E-28: German Sitting Room of the Biedermeier Period, 1815-50, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of chromogenic print.

Untitled [Broken Glass], 1940/62

Howard Dearstyne

A portrait of a young man with dark hair and beard painted on an irregular piece of wood. The background is gold as a wreath of ivy and necklace he wears. There are many areas where the paint has come off the surface.

Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath, Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century

Ancient Egyptian

Terracotta cup with handles that appear tied in knots, a simple design around the middle, and a fluted section at the foot.

Kantharos (Wine Cup), 300-275 BCE

Ancient Greek

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

A small-scale room in gold and brown tones with several partial latticed wood walls leading back to a Buddhist altar.

E-30: Chinese Interior, Traditional, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Abstract line composition of black lines at right angles forming quadrants including a gray square at upper left and a gray rectangle and red rectangle at lower right, against a white background.

Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red, 1935

Piet Mondrian

Scale miniature of a rustic but refined kitchen with a varnished wooden table at center and one chair. A dark wooden chest sits beneath the window at left, a spinning wheel in the left back corner. In the right corner is an ornately carved door adjacent to a staircase. Metal plates line a wide hearth.

A17: Pennsylvania Kitchen, 1752, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

In a stark desert landscape, an older man sits in the foreground, illuminated, with a newspaper. Arranged evenly across the land behind him, smaller than perspective would indicate, are a faded child holding a hula hoop, a man holding a melting piano, a standing woman, and a figure near the horizon.

A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano, 1936

Salvador Dalí

Miniature of an ornate room with red walls and white and gold trim, a large fireplace at center, and black and white checkered flooring. Two armchairs flank a window on the left side. Three large painted portraits in golden frames hang on the back wall. There is a small table directly in front of the fireplace.

E-3: English Reception Room of the Jacobean Period, 1625-55, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Lisa Lyon, Joshua Tree, 1980

Robert Mapplethorpe

A large stone steele with multiple registers of images from Buddhas life and sacred texts carved on all four sides

Buddhist Votive Stele, Western Wei dynasty (A.D. 535–557), dated A.D. 551

A work made of silk, satin weave, embroidered.

Dress for Christ Child, 18th century

Miniature of a very dark, ornate bedroom with a partially canopied green bed at center, brown parquet flooring, and deep brown and golden wallpaper. A gold chandelier hangs in the center, and two dark-brown cupboards sit on either side of the room. On the right is also a white and brown fireplace.

E-17: French Bedroom, Late 16th Century, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A terracotta jar, wider at the top with a narrow neck and small handles, decorated in black, featuring human figures against red. One wrestles at center with a merman, creating a mass of tangled limbs, the creature's tail dominating the left portion of the scene.

Hydria (Water Jar), about 515-500 BCE

Ancient Greek

A work made of oil on canvas.

Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, 1879

Camille Pissarro

A dense group of many adults, the men in top hats, sit atop a stagecoach pulled by four horses at full gallop.

A Stagecoach, 1818

Horace Vernet

A work made of oil on wood.

Tableau Vert, 1952

Ellsworth Kelly

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Vessel in the Shape of a Bird, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled, 1963

Enrico Sarsini

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