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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
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A work made of gilt gesso, white pine, red pine, silvered glass, and paint.

Looking Glass, 1790–1810

Artist unknown

Abstract work of numerous vertical lines dividing a horizontal image, making rectangular shapes in black, white, yellow, and white with tiny black dots forming the effect of a gray gradient. Many of the shapes have diagonal white bands running irregularly across them, evoking reflective surfaces of different angles.

Mirror #3 (Six Panels), 1971

Roy Lichtenstein

A work made of bronze.

Mirror with "TLV" Pattern, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), about 1st century

Large mound of rocks intersected radially by long rectangular mirrors.

Chalk-Mirror Displacement, 1969

Robert Smithson

A rather stark, clean-lined painting shows a fireplace mantle topped with a clock against a bare wall with wood paneling. From the back wall of the fireplace, a black locomotive emerges, belching smoke and riding an unseen track in the the air.

La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed), 1938

René Magritte

Black-and-white photograph of a light-haired woman with a bouffant hair style, taken from behind and showing the obscured reflection of her face in a mirror.

Untitled Film Still #56, 1980

Cindy Sherman

Tan jade frame with ruby, diamond, emerald flower designs.

Mirror Frame with Tree of Life Motif, Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), 17th/18th century

A work made of oil on canvas.

Maya, Mirror of Illusions, c. 1910

Arthur B. Davies

A work made of oil and sand on four joined canvases, with artist's painted frame.

Corpse and Mirror II, 1974/75

Jasper Johns

A work made of bronze.

Mirror with Dragon and Bird Arabesque, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 9)

A work made of copper alloy.

Hand Mirror, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (about 1550–1295 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of oil on canvas, on board.

In the Magic Mirror, 1934

Paul Klee

A work made of walnut, glass, and gilding.

Mirror, 1870

Carlo Bartolozzi

Watercolor painting of a bright-pink bedroom with skewed perspective and flattened forms. Placed diagonally is a bed with a yellow bedframe and red striped sheets. In the center background is a blue dresser with an oval mirror, and on the right is a doorway through we can see a black-skinned figure holding something, possibly a baby.

Virginia Interior, 1942

Jacob Lawrence

A work made of bronze.

Hand Mirror, 470-450 BCE

Ancient Etruscan

A work made of lithograph on ivory wove paper.

The Mirror #2, 1928

Max Weber

A work made of bronze.

Mirror with Images of Daoist Deities, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), 2nd or 3rd century CE

A work made of bronze.

Mirror with Dragon Arabesques, Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period or early Western Han dynasty, 3rd/2nd century B.C.

A work made of bronze.

Mirror with Images of Purity and Immortality and “Lion and Grapevine” Design, Tang dynasty (618–907), 8th century

A work made of lithograph on paper.

Seen in a Mirror (Self-Portrait), 1933

John Copley