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A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

Modern Style Bust, March 8, 1949

Pablo Picasso

A square white tile, rotated 90 degrees, crossed by black lines intersecting at 90-degree angles. A few of the shapes thus formed—some partial squares, some rectangles—are colored in a single shade of yellow, blue, black, or red.

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921

Piet Mondrian

A work made of oil on canvas.

Wrigley's, 1937

Charles Green Shaw

A work made of bronze.

Indian and Pronghorn Antelope, 1914

Paul Manship

A work made of oil on canvas with wooden matchsticks, hairpins, coins, leather hair rollers, and string.

Untitled (Match-Woman I), 1920

Francis Picabia

A work made of oil on canvas.

Alaska, 1919–27

Rockwell Kent

A work made of oil on canvas.

Renganeschi's Saturday Night, 1912

John Sloan

View from the middle of a train station looking down three different corridors. Tunnels are marked with the names of southern cities to the left, northern to the right. Light-skinned travelers, many in fine dress, head left, while dark-skinned travelers, many encumbered by luggage, head right.

Train Station, 1935

Walter Ellison

A work made of oil on canvas.

I Drew A Picture in the Sand and the Water Washed It Away, 1927

Ivan Albright

A work made of oil on canvas.

Abstract Cityscape, 1924

Léopold Survage

A work made of oil on canvas.

Landscape, 1930

Rufino Tamayo

A work made of oil on canvas.

I Walk To and Fro through Civilization and I Talk as I Walk (Follow Me, the Monk), 1926–27

Ivan Albright

A marble bust of Christ's face in agony: the face is vertically elongated, and other features are exaggerated, including deeply inset eyes and full lips. On the hairline is a crown of thorns carved in relief.

Man of Sorrows, 1950

Marion Perkins

A work made of oil on canvas.

PH-246, 1951/52

Clyfford Still

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 oil, metallic paint, and an unidentified material (possibly wax) on canvas.

Silver Sun, 1929

Arthur Dove

Ghostly white face formed by a winding line, creating forehead wrinkles, nose, chin. Droopy eyes and a small black heart.

In the Magic Mirror, 1934

Paul Klee

Box construction lined with printed text. A white sphere and clear blue marble are suspended between two horizontal glass shelves. At bottom left is a clear glass goblet filled with coral, shells, and paper. At bottom right, a white ceramic hand holding a cup.

Soap Bubble Set, 1948

Joseph Cornell

A work made of oil on copper.

The Two Philosophers, February 4–12, 1936

Joan Miró

A tall, spindly human figure in rough bronze with an elongated torso and arms and dramatically long, thin, kneeless legs appears to be walking mid-stride, both feet on the ground but quite far apart

Walking Man II, 1960

Alberto Giacometti

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