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Golden-colored, ornate wall clock adorned with golden flourishes, a bent figure with an arrow at top.

Wall Clock, c. 1735–40

Jean Pierre Latz

A work made of dehua ware (blanc de chine); porcelain.

Seated Guanyin, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

A work made of black ash, braided ash, cedar bark, and synthetic dye.

Nearly Monochrome, 2022

Jeremy Frey

Painting of a snowy scene in a yard adjacent to a small house or shed. Two young children and a dog play at center, an older woman to their right and what looks like two older boys to their left. Three turkeys run about.

Thanksgiving Turkey, c. 1940

Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses)

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life Reviving (Naturaleza muerta resucitando), 1963

Remedios Varo

A work made of glazed porcelain.

Famille Verte Model of Foreigners Aboard a Ship, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1772)

A lively and vibrantly colored painting dense with figures that take up the entire canvas. These include a wizard-like man with a long white beard in a black top hat, spectacles, and a bright-blue robe adorned with celestial imagery. Robed revelers pass behind him on white horses, and he is flanked by two figures: to the left, a medium-skinned woman in a yellow dress holds a cone-shaped telescope aloft and peers into it with one eye, while at left, a light-skinned child wearing a cone-shaped party hat holds a horn-shaped noisemaker to their mouth.

El Mago/Pim Pam Pum (The Magician/Pim Pam Pum), 1926

Maruja Mallo

A solid-metal necklace with a very large pendant with a central, colorfully beaded oval section. Two side by side circles overlap and extend from the oval, in which are set four shells. Loose brown tassels hang down from the pendant.

Woman's Necklace, 20th century

Maasai

A work made of layers of cotton, plain weave; pieced and quilted; appliquéd with wool and wool and cotton plain weaves and wool twill weaves; embroidered with cotton in chain, cross, and a derivative of herringbone stitches; applied plied yarn edging; lined with cotton plain weaves; pieced.

Tunic (Jibbeh), 1885/99

Mahdist peoples

A work made of oil on hardboard.

The Cambridge Valley, Before 1942

Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses)

Painting of a long covered bridge ablaze, its interior bright orange and flames erupting from its roof and windows. The bridge straddles a light-blue river, a densely populated town visible on the hill of the opposite bank. Small human figures scurry about the bridge opening carrying buckets. In the foreground, a horse harnessed to a carriage rears.

Burning of the Troy Bridge, c. 1941

Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses)

A work made of steel.

Afrophoenix No. 1, 1963

Melvin Edwards

A work made of woodcut in black ink on blue laid paper.

Mucius Scaevola, c. 1550

Antonio Campi

A work made of etching on paper.

Holy Family with Angels, 1652

Giovanni Battista Beinaschi

Painting features a forked dirt road upon which two figures meet, one in blue and one in brown, walking a dog. Beyond them at left is a brown barn; at right, a sprawling white house. In the distance is a ridge of trees and hazy low mountains.

Home, c. 1940

Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses)

Painted Fan with a Scene of the Hongs and Harbor of Canton

Painted Fan with a Scene of the Hongs and Harbor of Canton, c. 1845-1860, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

A work made of wool, rattan, and human hair.

Dance Hat, 20th century

Bamileke

Abstract painting in vivid hues evoking a land- or seascape, featuring a large blue sky mottled by yellow and gold whispy clouds.

American Horizon, 2000

Jane Wilson

A work made of oil on millboard.

Self-Portrait, 1863

Eastman Johnson

Drawing of god, radiating light, reaching down from clouds, touching male figure.

The Creation of Adam, c. 1645/50

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

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