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A work made of 15 pastel drawings on white wove paper.

Boost West, 1990

Edgar Heap of Birds

Painting of a cabin set below a dark blue sky and fluffy white clouds. Behind it is a field of many small white dots. In front, a dark-skinned woman sits and a dark-skinned child plays among roaming chickens and dogs in a fenced-in yard.

Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931–37

Horace Pippin

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

Untitled (For Matisse), 1969

Ronnie Landfield

Border Fragments

Border Fragments, 100 BCE–200 CE

Nasca

A work made of oil, sand, pebbles and string on canvas.

Peau de soleil, 1944

Alice Rahon

A work made of color woodblock print; ōban.

Yoshitsune’s Horse-Washing Falls at Yoshino in Yamato Province (Washū Yoshino Yoshitsune uma arai no taki), from the series Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri), About 1833

Katsushika Hokusai

Photographic portrait of a medium dark–skinned pregnant woman. She sits on a wooden chair, holding her belly with her right hand and her cheek with her left. The image is divided up into six framed panels arranged in three rows of two panels each.

Oneika I, 1996

Dawoud Bey

Abstract painting composed of small vertical dabs of multiple shades of blue with a small area of similar strokes of red, orange, and yellow in the upper right.

Starry Night and the Astronauts, 1972

Alma Thomas

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers, 1724

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Print shows a sweeping perspective view of a wide expanse of land and water rendered in pastel shades of yellow, green, and blue, the land cutting paths between pools. Figures work along these paths, beneath straw-roofed structures, and in fields. A lone snowy mountain rises in the distance, and clouds encroach upon the scene from the right.

The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A work made of oil on canvas.

Strange Worlds, 1928

Todros Geller

A pastel-colored drawing outlined in blue ballpoint pen featuring a rugged landscape of rocky hills or mountains dotted by groves of trees and traversed by a path. The colors and contours of the terrain swirl about in the manner of rainbow sherbet. Individual plants and cacti drawn at an exaggerated scale dot the scene. Cursive text at upper left reads, "Brazus Valley Amerilo Texas by Joseph E. Yoakum."

Brazus Valley Amerilo Texas, 1966

Joseph Yoakum

An abstract steel sculpture of welded metal parts suggesting a human figure with long, thin legs and a bulkier shoulder area.

Hero Construction, 1958

Richard Hunt

Photograph of a two-story house painted bright red, including the door, boarded windows, and porch posts, with only a small patch of blue above a window. The pitched roof is black. The house is set in the left side of the photograph, empty lots around it.

Color(ed) Theory: Flamin' Red Hots, 2014-15

Amanda Williams

A work made of basswood, paint, glass, and metal.

Middle Row Jumping Horse (Carousel Figure), c. 1924

Daniel Müller

A work made of earthenware and slip.

Polychrome Jar, c. 1920

Isabel Medina Toribio (Aitiye')

Perspective aerial drawing of Chicago's lakefront and harbor, park, and cityscape sprawling beyond the bottom of the page.

Plate 137 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. View of the Proposed Development in the Center of the City, from Twenty-Second Street to Chicago Avenue, Looking Towards the East Over the Civic Center to Grant Park and Lake Michigan, 1907

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of handmade book with ten color lithographs on ivory wove paper.

Memories of Childhood, 1999

Roger Shimomura

A work made of glazed steatite.

Amulet of Thoth, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

Print rendered in visible uniform lines of a 2/3 bust view of a dark-skinned mature woman looking to her left in a wide brim hat, a safety pin securing her black jacket. Her face and neck is a rich brown hue, while the rest of the portrait is rendered in black and white.

Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970

Elizabeth Catlett

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