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Roughly painted face of a woman with a thick neck, short black hair, prominent nostrils, and a strung necklace.

Head of a Woman with a Blue Necklace, 1932

Paul Kleinschmidt

A work made of lithograph on ivory wove paper.

Change This, 1941

Leonard Havens

A work made of etching on off-white wove paper.

Juggler, 1941

Leonard Havens

A work made of color etching and aquatint on ivory wove paper.

Juggler, 1941

Leonard Havens

Monochromatic drawing of a nude female figure bent over her legs, hair hanging, softly shaded in brown ink.

Female Nude Bending Toward the Left, n.d.

Georg Kolbe

A work made of gelatin silver print.

William Edmondson, Sculptor, Nashville, 1941, printed 1953/54

Edward Weston

A work made of watercolor and pen and black ink, over graphite (recto), and pen and black ink (verso), on white wove paper.

Abstract Landscape (recto); Sheet of Sketches: Figure Studies (verso), 1934/46

Richard Burgess

A work made of chromogenic print.

Group Portrait: Staff, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1974

Neal Slavin

A work made of gelatin silver print.

White Sands, c. 1968

Richard Faller

A work made of soft ground etching, with drypoint on cream japanese paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé).

Loop, 2002

Martin Puryear

Three figures dark-skinned, elongated figures lie on a bed of patterned quilts, viewed from above, slightly abstracted. The central figure wears no clothing, their back and buttocks visible. A leg juts in at bottom right. To the right of the bed on a wooden floor lie newspapers and a white baby doll.

The Room No. VI, 1948

Eldzier Cortor

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Woodlawn Plantation House, Louisana, 1941, printed 1953/54

Edward Weston

A black-and-white photograph of a light-skinned child with short, light hair looking up at the camera with a scrunched face and holding a rag doll.

A child from the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia plays with a homemade doll. Her family, temporarily housed in the ruins of a military barracks, were among thousands of displaced persons in the region, Vienna, Austria, 1948

David Seymour

A work made of cotton, plain weave; screen printed.

Loimi (Warp) Furnishing Fabric, 2000

Fujiwo Ishimoto

Box construction lined with printed text. A white sphere and clear blue marble are suspended between two horizontal glass shelves. At bottom left is a clear glass goblet filled with coral, shells, and paper. At bottom right, a white ceramic hand holding a cup.

Soap Bubble Set, 1948

Joseph Cornell

A colorful wedding scene with a dark-skinned bride in red and a groom in black at center, their backs to the viewer. A minister cloaked in black stands between them, a dense wall of flowers or perhaps a floral pattern behind him. The group is flanked by two figures and panels of geometric stained glass.

The Wedding, 1948

Jacob Lawrence

A work made of lithograph on off-white wove paper.

Tree Patterns, 1941

Charlotte Rothstein

A work made of gouache and graphite stenciled drawing on illustration board.

Mestizos of the State of Yucatan, from Mexican Costume, 1941

Carlos Mérida

Woodcut print of a street scene with storefronts and awnings and a crowd of people gathered in front.

Maxwell Street, Chicago, from Yiddish Motifs, 1926

Todros Geller

A work made of etching in black on off-white wove paper.

Vendémiaire, plate 34 from Alcools, 1934

Louis Marcoussis

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