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Full-body sketch of a mustached man wearing a jockey's cap. His hands grasp an unseen horse's reins, and his legs are only lightly rendered.

Jockey, 1866–68

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

A work made of wooden box; covered with silk, satin weave; appliquéd with silk and linen, plain weaves and twill plaited tapes; embroidered with silk, metal threads, and linen in a variety of stitches; laid work, buttonhole couching, couching, and french knots; mica and pearls; edged with woven tape; silver feet.

Dressing Box Depicting the Finding of Moses and Scenes from Abraham and Hagar, Third quarter of the 17th century

Painting featuring a red background and tiny, tightly spaced black shapes, creating an undulating, netlike pattern that fills the entire canvas.

No. I.Z, 1960

Yayoi Kusama

A work made of glass.

Perfume bottle with stopper, c. 1925

Steuben Division, Corning Glass Works

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with cotton in darning, running and split stitches; couching; gesso, ink, and graphite.

Work on Stretched Linen, No. 22, 1982

Dorothy Ruddick

A work made of silver dye-bleach print.

Piazza Pugliesi, from the series "Italian Night Color Work", 1991, printed 2006

Lewis Baltz

A work made of cotton and linen, twill weave; embroidered with wool yarns in satin, chain, bohkara couching (or laid oriental couching), buttonhole, speckling, outline, stem, stroke, coral, rococo, fishbone, slanted stem, chain, link powdering, running, and plain stitches; pattern couching; fillings made with detached buttonhole, basket, roumanian, double knot and rope stitches; french knots.

Panel, 17th century

A work made of graphite on ivory wood-pulp laminate board.

Imaginary Portrait of Lautréamont at the Age of Nineteen Obtained According to the Paranoiac-Critical Method, 1937

Salvador Dalí

A work made of graphite on cream wove japanese paper (japanese vellum).

Portrait of a Lady in a High Hat, n.d.

Gustav Klimt

Figuren der Arbiet (Figures of Work)

Figuren der Arbiet (Figures of Work), c. 1930

Else Thalemann

A work made of color video, sound (monitor), wood chair, headphones, spotlight, and pedestal.

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House, 1982

Bill Viola

A work made of color woodblock print; oban.

Five Men Doing the Work of Ten Bodies (Gonin jushin no hataraki), 1861

Utagawa Yoshifuji

A work made of wood engraving on paper.

Fire Works on the Night of the Fourth of July, published July 11, 1868

Winslow Homer

A work made of manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothic book hand inscriptions in latin in pen and dark brown ink, with red and blue ink headers, ruled in graphite, on parchment.

Table of Bigamy, from the Summa Super Titulis Decretalium Completa, 1275/99

Henry of Segusio

A work made of mezzotint.

So Tai (Relativity)—Work #7, 1982

Hamanishi Katsunori

A work made of pastel on paper laid down on board.

Breakfast after the Bath, 1895/98

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Painting of three male figures, two older men in top hats and a younger man with red hair, standing outdoors around a wooden table with a pitcher on it, drinking from glasses. A much smaller, childlike figure at left peers over the table and drinks from a white cup. The scene is rendered in winding paint strokes in shades of green and blue.

The Drinkers, 1890

Vincent van Gogh

A work made of albumen print, plate 42 from the album "photographic views of the sherman campaign" (1866).

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA, No. 4, 1864

George N. Barnard

A work made of pen and black ink, with touches of brush and gray wash, on green wove paper.

Sketches of Patmos, Sardis, Obelisk of Heliopolis, n.d.

Unknown artist

A tan linen with a blue geometric border. Inside the border, from the top down, are rows of alphabetical letters, each letter repeated; a row of numbers, a row of letters, and spotty text reading, "No radiant pearl which crested . . . for other's woes . . . Finally, there is a row with the artist's name, "Mary Ann Hollis," and date, "1820."

Sampler, 1820

Mary Ann Hollis

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