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Pieced quilt of eighty-five uniquely designed squares featuring geometric and floral motifs, bordered with triangles.

Friendship Quilt, 1842

Ella Maria Deacon

A work made of oil on canvas.

Peasant Family at a Well, 1650/60

The Master of the Children's Caps

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Two Women at Convent Avenue Baptist Church, from the series "Harlem, U.S.A.", 1977, printed 2010

Dawoud Bey

Miniature room featuring wide-plank hardwood floors, round hooked rugs, simple wooden furnishings, and a wood-burning stove. The window frames and door frames are painted green, while the walls are a light butter yellow.

A18: Shaker Living Room, c. 1800, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Cloth-Strecher, from the series "Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft (Fujin tewaza juni ko)", c. 1798/99

Kitagawa Utamaro

A work made of two-channel black-and-white video, sound (projection); 13 min. loop.

Rapture, 1999

Shirin Neshat

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Rodney Plogger at 6:01, from the series "Immediate Family", 1989

Sally Mann

Walking Beauty

Walking Beauty, Early/mid–18th century

Miyagawa Chôshun

Miss Venice Beach, Cal.

Miss Venice Beach, Cal., 1962

Diane Arbus

A work made of gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "women are beautiful" (1981).

Untitled (Girl with Ringlets Looking Down Smiling), c. 1975

Garry Winogrand

A work made of color woodblock print; surimono.

Frontispiece to the illustrated album "Thirty-six Immortal Women Poets" ("Nishikizuri onna sanjurokkasen"), 1801

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of etching in brown on cream wove paper.

Old Women, Bruges, 1906

Frank Brangwyn

A work made of color woodblock prints with metallic pigment; surimono shikishiban diptych.

Two Chinese Women Examining Thread and a Spider’s Web in a Box, from the series "Diptych for the Drum Group", c. 1824

Yashima Gakutei

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Matseleng Kgoaripe, Vosloorus, Johannesburg, from the series "Faces & Phases", 2011, printed 2014

Zanele Muholi

A work made of etching on cream laid paper.

Skipping, 1921

Eileen Alice Soper

A work made of pochoir on paper.

Women and Birds, plate eight from Constellations, 1959

Daniel Jacomet

A work made of color woodblock prints with metallic pigment; surimono shikishiban diptych.

Two Chinese Women Examining Thread and a Spider’s Web in a Box, from the series "Diptych for the Drum Group", c. 1824

Yashima Gakutei

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Treasured Admonitions to Young Women (Jijo hokun onna Imagawa), c. 1784

Torii Kiyonaga

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Mourning Women at Graveside, Pirgos Dirou, Mani, from the series "A Greek Portfolio", 1961/67

Constantine Manos

A work made of gelatin silver print.

A Family One Evening In A Nudist Camp, Pennsylvania, 1965

Diane Arbus

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