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The End is the Beginning

The End is the Beginning, 1955

Joseph Cornell

A work made of albumen print, plate 39 from the album "photographic views of the sherman campaign" (1866).

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA, No. 1, 1864

George N. Barnard

A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool in tent stitches.

Chair Seat and Back, 19th century

A work made of silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk in satin, single satin, and stem stitches; laid work and couching, and chinese knots; painted with gold; lined with red silk (chirimen), crepe; dyed with beni, safflower.

Uchikake (Over Kimono), late Edo (1789–1868)/Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

Painting of a woman and an older white man holding a pitchfork, both seen from the waist up. They stand side by side with stern expressions, in front of a white house with a peaked roof.

American Gothic, 1930

Grant Wood

Painting of a beach on a cloudy day with several sailboats on the water, a few rowboats on the shore, and two groupings of people on the sand.

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867

Claude Monet

Painting in tones of gray and brown, with some green and blue, of a woman digging with a garden tool before a structure with a thatched roof that descends almost to the ground. Above her the sky is gray and blue, a haze of clouds.

A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage, c. 1885

Vincent van Gogh

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

Daft, 1991

Jim Nutt

A huge steel petal juts from the earth. Across the lower part of its surface, raised lines crisscross. Written along one line is "Mended on June 12, 2015" and, lower down, "Yoko Ono."

Mended Petal, 2016

Yoko Ono

A work made of etching on copper in black on off-white laid paper.

Sculptor Working on a Motif with Marie-Thérèse Posing, from the Vollard Suite, March 31, 1933, printed 1939

Pablo Picasso

Dearborn-Goethe Project, Chicago, Illinois, Working Drawings

Dearborn-Goethe Project, Chicago, Illinois, Working Drawings, 1960-1961

Bertrand Goldberg

A work made of four 16mm color films, silent, transferred to digital video (projection); 42 min. 30 sec. loop.

Art Make-Up, 1967/68

Bruce Nauman

A work made of silk, warp-float faced broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; appliquéd with linen, plain weave, silk and gilt and silvered wire, plain weave with twill interlacing of secondary binding warps and patterning wefts; silk and silvered wire, twill weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt and silvered wire in overcast, satin, padded satin, split, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; semi-precious stones; edged with woven fringes.

Altar Frontal Depicting Scenes from the Life of Christ, Late 16th century

A work made of manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textualis inscriptions in black, ruled in red, on parchment.

The Stoning of Saint Stephen in a Historiated Initial "A" or "C" from a Gradual, c. 1500

Master of Jacques de Besançon

A work made of graphite on cream board.

Butterfly, c. 1890

James McNeill Whistler

A work made of 1,215 slides, fifteen slide projectors, fifteen lenses, and eight dissolve units; continous loop.

Questions, 1981/2003

Fischli & Weiss

A work made of oil on canvas.

Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque d'Hiver, c. 1879

John Singer Sargent

A work made of manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, and letter bâtarde inscriptions in brownish-black ink, unruled, with decorated initial, on parchment.

The Last Judgment from Les Sept Articles de la Foi by Jean Chappuis, c. 1470

Egregius Pictor Franciscus

A work made of acrylic, silkscreen ink, and pencil on linen.

Self-Portrait, 1966

Andy Warhol

A work made of gelatin silver print (diptych).

A Premonitional Work (Message to Timothy H. O'Sullivan), Gullfoss, Iceland, 1987

Thomas Joshua Cooper

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