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A work made of acrylic paint on fabric.

Feather Pink, 1997

Yinka Shonibare

A work made of box construction.

Pavilion, 1953

Joseph Cornell

Color photograph of a cemetery, a large open grave in the foreground with a rumpled tarp and pile of gravel nearby. The grave is filled with water and marine life, including several starfish.

The Flooded Grave, 1998–2000

Jeff Wall

Geometric landscape painting filled with lush green stylized trees, leaves, and ferns, with a high horizon line. A patch of red leaves at lower right. At lower left, two black-skinned figures stand in front of a small rocky waterfall beside two antelope-like animals.

The Waterfall, 1910

Henri Rousseau

A work made of oil on canvas.

Composition, 1915

Léopold Survage

A large and vibrantly colored abstract painting. The abstract shapes in muted orange, purple, green, and blue suggest a cityscape amongst mountains and trees.

Growing City, 1956

Eleanor Coen

Abstract painting composed of small vertical dabs of multiple shades of blue with a small area of similar strokes of red, orange, and yellow in the upper right.

Starry Night and the Astronauts, 1972

Alma Thomas

Jewel-toned landscape painting. A large green hill dotted with trees rises in the center; the sky is blue with white clouds. Faceless figures in hues of red, blue, yellow, and orange walk from left to right in front of the hill. In the foreground two figures pull a dark blue body from a pond of the same color, while others lay in twisted and disfigured shapes on the ground.

Death of the Infant Bethel, 1965

Bob Thompson

A work made of oil on canvas.

Pink Composition (Composition en rose), 1951

Wou-Ki Zao

A work made of wood and bone.

Reposoir, 1983

Don Baum

A work made of bronze, from an edition of ten.

Falling Warrior, 1956/57

Henry Moore

A colorful, lively scene, fragmented and abstracted, of numerous people on wooden floor, rolling green hills behind them. Figures include a nude woman on a bed, an aproned woman with bucket, and man with a long white beard. A figure on the hill at top right does a cartwheel or handstand.

Birth, 1911/12

Marc Chagall

An abstracted painting of a pink girl, arms and legs outstretched, rendered in dark-brown lines and circles against a brown background, with scattered stick drawings around her. The lines are illuminated by surrounding points of color in yellow, orange, green, pink, and beige.

Dancing Girl, 1940

Paul Klee

A work made of oil on canvas.

Near Pontoise, c. 1918/20

Maurice de Vlaminck

Geometric forms fragment a vertical composition containing a woodgrain table with newspapers, a guitar, and a stemmed wine glass. These objects are vividly painted within a V-shaped fragment at center. Muted, shadowlike versions of the objects appear outside it. The outline of the guitar is repeated in the V in brown, green, blue, and black alongside a fragment of brown floral wallpaper.

Abstraction (Guitar and Glass), 1913

Juan Gris

Painting of mother in blue, purple, and green-stripped dress washing child's feet.

The Child's Bath, 1893

Mary Cassatt

Opulently dressed light-skinned man and woman drink at a small table. A mirror behind them reflects a crowd. Her blue dress and dark hat dominate.

At Mouquin's, 1905

William James Glackens

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

F House, 1987

Ed Ruscha

A work made of oil on board.

Percolator, 1917

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)

An orange seashell or flower bud or ear canal emerges from darkness to press up against the picture plane alongside lush green flora. A painting reminiscent of a lacquer box or botanical illustration.

Exotic garden, c. 1954

Kurt Seligmann

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