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A work made of white marble, black marble, stone, and wood.

White Negress II, 1928

Constantin Brancusi

Print rendered in visible uniform lines of a 2/3 bust view of a dark-skinned mature woman looking to her left in a wide brim hat, a safety pin securing her black jacket. Her face and neck is a rich brown hue, while the rest of the portrait is rendered in black and white.

Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970

Elizabeth Catlett

Painting of mother in blue, purple, and green-stripped dress washing child's feet.

The Child's Bath, 1893

Mary Cassatt

Multi-color pastel drawing of sharply distorted human figures.

Two Women's Torsos, 1952

Willem de Kooning

A work made of oil on canvas.

Abigail Inskeep Bradford, 1803–8

Rembrandt Peale

A work made of oil on composition board.

Girl with the Green Face, 1910

Alexei Jawlensky

A work made of oil on canvas.

Ballet Dancer, late 1920s

André Derain

A work made of pastel on canvas, on burlap.

Women Harvesting, 1937

Paul Klee

A work made of oil on cardboard.

Nude with Cats, 1901

Pablo Picasso

A work made of wood engraving on paper.

The Approach of the British Pirate "Alabama", published April 25, 1863

Winslow Homer

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Eventuality of Destiny, 1927

Giorgio de Chirico

A work made of woodcut printed from one block (sawn into three sections) in dark blue, green, black and red-brown ink with additions in green crayon on cream japanese paper.

Two Women on the Shore, 1898

Edvard Munch

An oil painting of a colorful female face on a white background. The woman wears glasses and large, hoop earrings, and is rendered in blue, red, yellow, and purples shades that create a kaleidoscopic effect.

Towards Identity, 1970

Nelson Stevens

A work made of cast stone.

Bust of Kneeling Girl, 1911

Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Horizontal five-panel document featuring written characters in black on the left four pages and an illustration of the fifth. A seated figure at left in profile, wearing a tall headdress and white clothing, looks toward a dark-haired female figure at right in white with a white object on her head. She holds up her hands in gesture. A panel of hieroglyphs in white squares is visible behind them.

Funerary Papyrus of Tayuhenutmut, Third Intermediate Period, probably Dynasty 21 (about 1069-945 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of color etching on cream wove paper.

Silent Eclectic Fish Tattoo, June 4, 1964

Vera Berdich

Black-and-white photograph of a light-haired woman with a bouffant hair style, taken from behind and showing the obscured reflection of her face in a mirror.

Untitled Film Still #56, 1980

Cindy Sherman

A work made of oil on canvas.

Madam Pompadour, 1915

Amedeo Modigliani

A work made of terracotta.

Adolescent Girl, 1920

Charles Despiau

A work made of gouache, possibly casein, on panel.

Two Nude Women, 1942

Jean Dubuffet

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