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A work made of oil on canvas.

Poor Room—There Is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever, and Forever without End, 1942–43, 1948–55, 1957–63

Ivan Albright

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.

Flesh (Smaller Than Tears Are the Little Blue Flowers), 1928

Ivan Albright

A work made of oil on canvas.

Haymaking at Éragny, 1892

Camille Pissarro

Vertical black sculpture of rounded and rectangular shapes, suggesting a human figure.

Spoon Woman, 1926–27 (cast 1954)

Alberto Giacometti

A work made of oil on panel.

Portrait of a Man with a Pink, 1500–10

Quentin Massys

A room with canon at left pointed toward a wall divided into four segments: wood grain at top left; at top right, gray tubes with halved spheres; at bottom left, blue sky and clouds; and at bottom right, a brown building with curtained windows. A left wall, segmented in two, features a nude female torso at top and detailed trees at bottom. The right wall features a top panel of wavy yellow and orange, while bottom panel has a pink, cutout-like motif.

On the Threshold of Liberty, February–March 1937

René Magritte

A work made of oil on canvas.

Day (Truth), 1896/98

Ferdinand Hodler

A work made of gelatin silver print.

The Hand of Miles Davis, New York, 1986, printed 1992

Irving Penn

A work made of twenty four light bulbs, extension cord, plastic light sockets, and dimmer switch.

"Untitled" (Last Light), 1993

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Porcelain soup bowl with fruit and floral decorations painted in enamel color and molded scalloped edge with a golden border.

Soup Bowl, c. 1750

A work made of etching on ivory china paper laid down on white wove paper.

The Stream in the Gorge, 1871

Rodolphe Bresdin

A work made of oil on panel.

Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières", 1883

Georges Seurat

Against red background four men stand around another bound naked to a chair, his head covered.

Interrogation II, 1981

Leon Golub

Black terracotta vessel, narrow at the bottom and wider at top, with a short lip, featuring a wide red band in the middle. This band depicts in black a procession of figures surrounded by vines, including a person on a donkey.

Mastoid (Drinking Cup), 500-480 BCE

Leafless Group

Marble bust of a young man seen in profile with a prominent nose and fine features. He wears an ornate greek warrior's helmet atop wavy locks of hair. At the base is a plate says "Abdiel."

Abdiel, 1838–43

Horatio Greenough

Thin, flat metal shapes form a loosely symmetrical sculpture atop a wide base. Near the top, radiating spindles form an open, cone-like shape.

Maquette for Richard J. Daley Center Sculpture, 1964

Pablo Picasso

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1945–46

Ivan Albright

Black and white photograph, two older women, in suits and hats, smoking, at diner table.

Two Ladies at the Automat (New York City), 1966, printed 1977

Diane Arbus

A work made of color lithograph on cream wove paper.

At the Concert, 1896

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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