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Four women with musical instruments lounge in a massive garden courtyard.

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam, 1834

Carl Blechen

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Stamnos (Mixing Jar), about 450 BCE

Chicago Painter

A work made of graphite on paper.

Two Women Bathing, early 20th century

Hashiguchi Goyô

A work made of brush and black ink on ivory laid paper.

Three Women Beneath a Tree, 1936

Diego Rivera

A work made of woodcut in black, over monotype in green-blue, yellow, and pink opaque watercolor on gray wove paper.

Two Seated Women, 1912

Erich Heckel

A work made of stencil.

Welcome!, April 19, 1944

Vladimir I. Ladiagin

Impressionist painting of woman wearing green dress trying on hats.

The Millinery Shop, 1879-86

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of variable media.

Prentice Women's Hospital, 1962/94

Bertrand Goldberg

A work made of soft ground etching with foul biting in black on ivory wove paper.

Two Women Drying Themselves, 1895

Suzanne Valadon

A work made of oil on canvas.

Maternité, c. 1921/49

Salcia Bahnc

A work made of woodcut on off-white paper.

Farmer II, 1971

Stefan Suberlak

A square-shape textile with a dual multicolor border features a painted five-by-four grid of images with the repeated face of a Black woman with short hair, Bessie Smith. Her face appears blue in each instance, while the outline of her facial features, her hair, and clothing alternate colors in varying shades of yellow and orange. The background of each square likewise alternates between shades of blue and green, some with an influx of red.

American Collection #5: Bessie's Blues, January 19, 1997

Faith Ringgold

A work made of oil on canvas.

Time Unveiling Truth, 1740–45

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni

A work made of pastel, over etching, aquatint, drypoint, and crayon électrique on tan wove paper.

Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery, 1885

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Bathers, 1884

William Adolphe Bouguereau

A work made of oil on panel.

An Elegant Company, 1632

Pieter Codde

A work made of opaque watercolor on paper.

Royal Women Feeding Fish, c. 1740

A work made of zincograph in black on chrome yellow wove paper.

Les drames de la mer: Bretagne (Dramas of the Sea: Brittany), from the Volpini Suite, 1889

Paul Gauguin

A woman with dark brown skin and an afro reclines on a patterned yellow couch, her legs crossed in the foreground. She wears hoop earrings, a loose purple top, and yellow eyeshadow.

Can't We Just Sit Down and Talk it Over?, 2006–07

Mickalene Thomas

A work made of black, red, and white chalk on gray-brown laid paper.

Three Studies of Seated Women, c. 1715

Jean Antoine Watteau

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