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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Painting of a vast autumn scene with two very small figures in Indigenous clothing standing on a cliff overlooking a massive waterfall in the distance.

Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830

Thomas Cole

Painting of a mustached man with a wide-brimmed black hat and white flat collar seen from the waist up, turned to the viewer.

Portrait of an Artist, 1644

Follower of Frans Hals

Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.

At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–95

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Abstract painting with beige background, lines creating sharp angles, minimal color.

Excavation, 1950

Willem de Kooning

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Crucifixion, 1627

Francisco de Zurbarán

Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

Claude Monet

Vibrant colored painting of beachscape with figures, structure, and ox pulled cart.

Painting with Troika, January 18, 1911

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper.

Priest and Boy, n.d.

Lawrence Carmichael Earle

Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left. The background is a feathered swirl suggesting floral pattern in cool pale tones of gray, purple, pink, and blue.

Woman at Her Toilette, 1875–80

Berthe Morisot

A work made of oil, gravel, pebbles, and sand on masonite.

Painting, summer 1936

Joan Miró

Painting of a small pond dense with pink water lilies, their roots visible through the water, a railed footbridge arching over the pond and lush, dark green folliage surrounding it.

Water Lily Pond, 1900

Claude Monet

Painting of a cliff overlooking the sea. Two figures in long dresses, one with a parasol, stand on the cliff beneath blue sky.

Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882

Claude Monet

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

The Child's Bath, 1893

Mary Cassatt

Loosely painted scene of a brown-haired girl in her nightgown standing in a dark room, gazing out a window into a brighter night, her face unseen and her hand drawing back the pale curtain. Light blues and pink whites dominate the girl and the window, while deep browns, blues, and greens color the darkened portions of her room.

The Girl by the Window, 1893

Edvard Munch

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

Blue and brown Cubist painting of Picasso with painterǳ palette.

Portrait of Pablo Picasso, January–February 1912

Juan Gris

Painting of the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven amongst multitude of angels.

The Assumption of the Virgin, 1577–79

Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco

Painting, mostly in shades of blue, of a thin, bent, older man wearing ragged clothes and sitting cross-legged playing a guitar positioned upright in his lap.

The Old Guitarist, late 1903–early 1904

Pablo Picasso

Painting of crucifixion, surrounded by scenes of Nazi violence against the Jewish community.

White Crucifixion, 1938

Marc Chagall

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