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Serene abstract work featuring overlapping shapes on a neutral background. Some shapes are outlined and filled in with dots of the same color. At top left, a circle radiating purple dots contains an almond-shaped eye. Near bottom right is a small bright-red circle with a tiny arrow beside it.

Sunset, 1930

Paul Klee

A work made of oil on panel.

Abstraction: Background with Blue Cloudy Sky, January 4, 1930

Pablo Picasso

A work made of oil on canvas.

Calla Lilies, 1922–25

Arthur B. Carles

A work made of oil on canvas.

Anna Maria Dashwood, later Marchioness of Ely, c. 1805

Sir Thomas Lawrence

A work made of tempera and gold on panel.

Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin, 1396

Spanish

Oil portrait with man in suit, dim green background.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, c. 1896

Hermann Dudley Murphy

A work made of oil on canvas.

Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose, c. 1705

Alessandro Magnasco

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Garden of Palazzo Contarini dal Zaffo, Late 1770s

Francesco Guardi

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Grand Canal, Venice, c. 1760

Francesco Guardi

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Keeper of the Flock, 1871–74

Jean François Millet

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Puff of Smoke, 1912

Gifford Beal

Semiabstracted painting, narrow road in the foreground disappears behind misty fog, pink hilltop in the distant background.

Road – Mesa with Mist, 1961

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Coast of Labrador, 1866

William Bradford

Abstract painting of bright rectangles in various sizes, in shades of light and dark orange as well as yellow, blue, lime green, and pink. A small white, amorphous shape sits at top center.

The Golden Wall, 1961

Hans Hofmann

A work made of oil on canvas.

Crossing the Ford, 1848

George Inness

A work made of oil on panel.

Virgin and Child, c. 1485

Hans Memling

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Coffee House, Winter 1905–6

Alson Skinner Clark

A work made of engraving, with plate tone, in black on cream laid paper.

The Invention of Oil Painting, from Nova Reperta, c. 1591

Theodoor Galle

An oil painting of a large, male African American figure who looks left into the distance. He holds his hand out towards the dark blue sky, and he appears to break free from a pile of rubble in the background.

This, My Brother, 1942

Charles White

A work made of oil on canvas.

Théodore Géricault on His Deathbed, 1824

Charles Emile Champmartin

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