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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

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

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

A work made of oil on canvas.

Water Painting IX, 1974

Joseph Raffael

A work made of etching, soft ground etching, aquatint, and drypoint on grayish-ivory wove paper.

Mary Cassatt in the Paintings Gallery at the Louvre, 1879–80

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

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 linen, single knots and extended threads; (pressure mounted into fan shape).

Painted Fan, 1981

Diane Itter

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

A work made of terracotta and pigmented slip.

Female Figure with Geometric Face and Body Paint, 200–100 BCE

Chupícuaro

A work made of pigment and gold on cotton.

Painted Banner (Thangka) with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru), 14th century

A work made of huanghuali wood.

Painting Table, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), late 17th/early 18th century

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 color lithograph on cream wove paper.

Uxbridge: Across the Colne to Beechy Bucks, April 20, 1922

Charles Paine

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

A work made of acrylic on canvas, wood (diptych).

Painting for Eli, 1983

David Salle

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