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A work made of cotton, plain weave; block printed; six fragments pieced on panel "a".

Daffodil, Design c. 1891, made 1891–1917

John Henry Dearle

A work made of red velvet with design in applique and couched gold cord.

Orphrey, 16th century

A work made of wool, plain weave; triple cloth; lining: wool, twill weave.

Elmcote, Design c. 1900

John Henry Dearle

A work made of color screenprint on white wove paper.

Joy, plate ten from Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers, 1962

Josef Albers

A work made of mezzotint.

Round Trip—Work #9, 1984

Hamanishi Katsunori

A work made of blueprint.

Walton Gardens, Chicago, Illinois, Working Drawing, 1955

Bertrand Goldberg

A work made of color screenprint on white wove paper.

Full, plate six from Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers, 1962

Josef Albers

A work made of super 8 black-and-white and color film, silent, transferred to 16mm film; 10:50 min. edition number seven of ten.

Splitting, 1974

Gordon Matta-Clark

Gray letters and numbers spell out words and dates in English that wrap along the top edge of a gallery wall, a corner of which reads, "Rosa 1977 Great Society 1964 Blue Flowers 1984 Silver Ocean 1990 Ross 1983."

"Untitled", 1989

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

A work made of leather binding; covers of velvet, embroidered with chenille and metal thread.

Notebook, 19th century

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Working Class Interior, Rue de Romainville), 1910, printed after 1927

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

This collage creates the illusion of both a woman's face and a home interior. Blond hair doubles as curtains in an entryway, while her eyes become framed artwork on the wall. The wall, or the top half of the face, is bright red, and doubles as a face mask.

Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment, 1934–35

Salvador Dalí

Black-and-white photograph of an elevated train station straddling a crowded city street on which vehicles are either parked or blurred by motion.

"El", Sixth Avenue Line, Twenty-Eighth Street Station, Manhattan, November 10, 1938

Berenice Abbott

Roughly painted face of a woman with a thick neck, short black hair, prominent nostrils, and a strung necklace.

Head of a Woman with a Blue Necklace, 1932

Paul Kleinschmidt

A work made of engraving in black on cream laid paper.

To Bury the Dead, from The Works of Mercy, 1656–57

Sébastien Bourdon

A work made of silk, satin weave with self-patterning ground wefts.

Kennett, Design 1883, made 1887

William Morris

Loose, sketchy drawing in black. At left, a tall figure with hands raised as if to dive, outlined against a scribble of black, faces a group of nondescript figures partly in shadow.

Untitled, 1960

James McGarrell

A work made of glass.

Adventures of Alice, 1962

Steuben Division, Corning Glass Works

A work made of 16mm color film, sound, transferred to digital video (projection); 30 min. loop.

A Season Outside, 1997

Amar Kanwar

A work made of 16 mm color film transferred to digital video (projection, silent); 8 min. loop edition number two of three.

Hysteria, 1997

Sam Taylor-Wood

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