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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 wild silk and cotton, complementary weft plain weave double cloth.

Purple Bird, c. 1899

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey

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 work made of drypoint in black on ivory laid paper.

Young Woman at Rest, 1889

Berthe Morisot

A work made of color woodcut on light-gray japanese paper.

Landscape Gardeners, c. 1941

Leonard Pytlak

Against red background four men stand around another bound naked to a chair, his head covered.

Interrogation II, 1981

Leon Golub

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

#1 Support Systems, 1977

Susan Friedman

Large abstract painting of canvas sparsely filled with multicolored scribbles and shapes.

The First Part of the Return from Parnassus, 1961

Cy Twombly

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

Taivas (Sky) (Furnishing Fabric), 1985

Fujiwo Ishimoto

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

Rosemonde, plate 21 from Alcools, 1934

Louis Marcoussis

An abstracted painting of a pink girl, arms and legs outstretched, rendered in dark-brown lines and circles against a brown background, with scattered stick drawings around her. The lines are illuminated by surrounding points of color in yellow, orange, green, pink, and beige.

Dancing Girl, 1940

Paul Klee

Color photograph of a cemetery, a large open grave in the foreground with a rumpled tarp and pile of gravel nearby. The grave is filled with water and marine life, including several starfish.

The Flooded Grave, 1998–2000

Jeff Wall

A stately white home outlined in black with columns, lattices, ornate ironwork, and a decorative frieze. A yellow sky with huge clouds and full, sienna-toned trees frame the home.

Old Munich, 1905

Gustave Baumann

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Sir Winston Churchill, 1941

Yousuf Karsh

Tall city buildings seen at close range from the water, illuminated by hundreds of lighted windows and suffused with a dreamy light-blue and gray haze. Boats below emit blue steam.

Afterglow, c. 1913

Jonas Lie

A work made of book containing text and ten lithographs on buff wove paper.

Mazas, 1894

Maximilien Luce

Woodcut of a man's face in profile, his gaze cast toward the lower-right corner of the print, which is darkened.

Holy Emissary, from Yiddish Motifs, 1926

Todros Geller

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