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Abstract line composition of black lines at right angles forming quadrants including a gray square at upper left and a gray rectangle and red rectangle at lower right, against a white background.

Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red, 1935

Piet Mondrian

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

Watercolor landscape, attached to a board, of numerous white buildings with flat roofs, blue mountains in the distance.

Tetuan, Morocco, 1923

George Elmer Browne

Painting of centaur with harp, in water, surrounded by mermaids and mermen.

In the Sea, 1883

Arnold Böcklin

A work made of watercolor and white gouache over graphite, on ivory wove paper.

Use of the Globe (Sketch), 1889/1941

James Pryde

A work made of wild silk and cotton, complementary weft plain weave double cloth.

Purple Bird, c. 1899

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey

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

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

The First Communion of the Virgin, 1980

Dan Ramirez

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Twin Boys, 1970/75

Harvey Stein

A work made of engraving and drypoint in black on white wove paper.

L'Apprentissage de la Liberté, 1976

Philippe Mohlitz

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

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 work made of photomechanical print, from the portfolio crackerjacks, 1977.

#1 Support Systems, 1977

Susan Friedman

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 gelatin silver print.

Boulder Dam, 1941, printed 1953/54

Edward Weston

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

Rosemonde, plate 21 from Alcools, 1934

Louis Marcoussis

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

Taivas (Sky) (Furnishing Fabric), 1985

Fujiwo Ishimoto

A work made of drypoint in black on ivory laid paper.

Young Woman at Rest, 1889

Berthe Morisot

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Wild Parsley, 1873/1941

Frank Meadow Sutcliffe

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