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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

A work made of terracotta.

Adolescent Girl, 1920

Charles Despiau

A bisected rectangle, each side of which icludes a curved form seeming to represent a portion of a human body adorned in black lace undergarments.

Loose Beauty, 1973

Christina Ramberg

A work made of tint lithograph on heavy ivory wove paper.

Campaign Sketches: A Pass Time - Cavalry Rest, 1863

Winslow Homer

Painting of tall slender woman in white gown leaning on chair.

Portrait of Woman in White (Bobsy Goodspeed, later Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman), 1934

Pedro Pruna

A work made of color lithograph on tan wove paper.

Jane Avril, 1893

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Cubist painting of woman, bright yellow, green, purple colors.

The Red Armchair, December 16, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Small painting of woman in pink and black sitting on park bench.

A City Park, c. 1887

William Merritt Chase

A work made of oil on canvas.

Woman with a Fan, 1913

Jean Metzinger

A work made of pine, plywood, galvanized iron pipe and fittings, faucet handle, cast-lead soldier, aluminum alkyd enamel, and wheels.

Angry Young Machine, 1959

H. C. Westermann

Portrait of a blonde, blue-eyed white woman with her hair up, sitting in an unspecified room. She wears a sheer, light blue dress with fur trim.

Portrait of Mrs. James Ward Thorne, 1915

Virginia Keep Clark

A work made of silvered brass.

Glorification of Beauty, 1925

Alexander Archipenko

A colorful, lively scene, fragmented and abstracted, of numerous people on wooden floor, rolling green hills behind them. Figures include a nude woman on a bed, an aproned woman with bucket, and man with a long white beard. A figure on the hill at top right does a cartwheel or handstand.

Birth, 1911/12

Marc Chagall

Painting of four figures in blue, red, brown dresses playing croquet.

Croquet Scene, 1866

Winslow Homer

A work made of plaster and metal.

Couple on a Bed, 1965

George Segal

A colored print of two women in dresses, one with a child, with bus windows revealing a bridge behind them.

In the Omnibus, 1890–91

Mary Cassatt

A work made of pastel on cream wove paper, edge mounted on board.

The Star, 1879/81

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of sixteen silver dye bleach print diptychs, framed
1) sisters i (l: nefertiti, r: devonia)
2) sisters ii (l: nefertiti's daughter merytaten, r: devonia's daughter candace)
3) sisters iii (l: nefertiti's daughter maketaten, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
4) sisters iv (l: devonia's sister lorraine, r: nefertiti's sister mutnedjmet)
5) ceremonial occasions i (l: devonia as matron of honor, r: nefertiti performing a lustration)
6) ceremonial occasions ii (l: devonia attending a wedding, r: nefertiti performing an aten ritual)
7) a mother's kiss (t: candace and devonia, b: nefertiti and daughter)
8) motherhood (l: nefertiti, r: devonia reading to candace and edward, jr.)
9) young princesses (l: nefertiti's daughter ankhesenpaaten, r: devonia's daughter candace)
10) wordly princesses (l: nefertiti's daughter merytaten, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
11) crowned heads (l: nefertiti's husband akhenaten, r: devonia's husband edward)
12) young queens (l: nefertiti, aged 24, r: devonia, aged 24)
13) progress of queens (l: devonia, aged 35. r: nefertiti, aged 36)
14) cross-generational (l: nefertiti, the last image, r: devonia's daughter kimberley)
15) hero worship (l: devonia at 14 and lorraine at 3, r: devonia at 24 and lorraine at 13)
16) sibling rivalry (l: nefertiti, r: nefertiti's sister mutnedjmet).

Miscegenated Family Album, 1980/94

Lorraine O'Grady

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Valley of Arconville, c. 1887

Theodore Robinson

Print in black ink of a group of mostly dark-skinned children wearing dress clothes and cone-shaped party hats, gathered around a birthday cake. A girl at center smiles brightly while a boy at the table behind her looks glum. A woman behind the table moves to cut the cake as another looks on.

Birthday Party, 1957

Margaret Burroughs

Print of woman with distorted and exaggerated features holding handkerchief to face.

Weeping Woman I, July 1, 1937

Pablo Picasso