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

Priest and Boy, n.d.

Lawrence Carmichael Earle

Painting of a woman and an older white man holding a pitchfork, both seen from the waist up. They stand side by side with stern expressions, in front of a white house with a peaked roof.

American Gothic, 1930

Grant Wood

A work made of oil on canvas.

Relational Painting, No. 82, 1957

Fritz Glarner

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

Joe's Painting #125, 1965

Joe Zucker

Painting of bedroom, blue walls, green window, tan bed, red bedding.

The Bedroom, 1889

Vincent van Gogh

Painting of a resting man and woman with assorted livestock, arched ruins and a lush landscape behind them.

Pastoral Landscape with Ruins, 1664

Adriaen van de Velde

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Song of the Lark, 1884

Jules Breton

A work made of oil on canvas.

Painting of Madame X, 1927/30

Francis Picabia

Painting of linens drying on a fence in a field under a dark, overcast sky, a dirt road at left leading to a small village.

Landscape, c. 1895

Jean Charles Cazin

A work made of pastel, over etching, aquatint, drypoint, and crayon électrique on tan wove paper.

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery, 1885

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Painting of a red-haired, bearded man with light skin, painted in short brushstrokes and multicolored dots. The background is likewise a mass of small, closely spaced colored dots, these in green, blue, and red-orange.

Self-Portrait, 1887

Vincent van Gogh

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Jar with Painted Decoration, Predynastic Period, Naqada II (about 3500–3200 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

Horizontal painting in pastel tones of a series of abstract clouds in a gridlike formation like loose bricks, larger at the bottom of the painting and receding away at a horizon line near the top of the painting. Behind them, a blue sky gets progressively lighter. At the horizon line is a loose pink gradient that progresses to white and returns to blue at the very top of the work.

Sky above Clouds IV, 1965

Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting in brown and yellow tones of a flock of sheep at close range, one facing front and looking directly at the viewer.

Unfinished Study of Sheep, c. 1850

Constant Troyon

Painting of a basket of green and red-yellow apples spilling over into a white cloth placed on a wooden table, with a dark green bottle and a plate of pale biscuits behind.

The Basket of Apples, c. 1893

Paul Cezanne

Impressionist painting of two girls on balcony, bright flower hat, knitting basket.

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Painting of a bone-white cow's skull directly centered in a vertical canvas, adorned with gray-white roses. The background behind the skull is similarly pale and appears to depict stone, a deep black gap between sheets of stone bisecting the painting from top to bottom.

Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, 1931

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Loosely painted image of an open-air train station. On the right, a parked train gives off an enormous plumb of white smoke, making the scene look as though it were full of clouds. A huddled mass of barely discernible people crowd around the train on both sides of the tracks. Blue, green, and gray tones dominate.

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877

Claude Monet

A work made of acrylic and black pencil on canvas.

Green/2 Orange X Painting, 1983

Robert Mangold

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