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  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
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 composition board.

Girl with the Green Face, 1910

Alexei Jawlensky

A work made of box construction.

Untitled (Harlequin), 1935/38

Joseph Cornell

Abstract shapes compose a mustached man and rearing horse against brown background.

The Policeman, 1925

Joan Miró

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

A work made of oil and chalk on canvas.

Figure, 1927

Pablo Picasso

A work made of oil on canvas, three joined panels.

Heart of Darkness, 1982

Sean Scully

A work made of bronze.

Woman Leaning on Her Hands, 1905, cast c. 1930

Henri Matisse

A work made of oil on linen.

Attendant 2, 1996/99

Brice Marden

A work made of acrylic on fiberglass and plywood.

Green Panel, 1989/99

Ellsworth Kelly

A work made of wood, jute, salt, and steel.

Salt Seller, 1988

Mirosław Bałka

A work made of plastic filaments and metal hanging hardware.

Pénétrable de Chicago, 1971

Jesús Rafael Soto

A work made of oil on canvas.

Dahlia and Daisies in a Vase, c. 1904

Henri Rousseau

Large mound of rocks intersected radially by long rectangular mirrors.

Chalk-Mirror Displacement, 1969

Robert Smithson

A work made of oil on canvas.

Ballet Dancer, late 1920s

André Derain

A work made of steel and maple (later laminated surface).

Desk, 1937–39

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of bronze.

Small Crouching Nude without an Arm, 1908, cast 1909

Henri Matisse

An abstract painting in greens and blues shows many small, card- or brick-like squares and rectangles merging at bottom and encroaching upon the center from the sides, like a wall trying to close itself, or a wall opening. Beyond these shapes is the suggestion of a hazy green sky with clouds and perhaps more shapes.

Towards the Unknown, 1950

Gunther Gerzso

Multicolored painting of geometric shapes intersecting and overlapping in a circular flow.

Festival in Montmartre, 1913

Gino Severini

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