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A solidly black image in which hazy form, perhaps a figure, appears slightly left of center in a mottled hue slightly lighter thank the surrounding black.

Untitled, 1999

Ellen Gallagher

A work made of gouache, over graphite, on white wove paper laid down on white wove paper.

The Fruit Vendor, 1943

Rufino Tamayo

A work made of bronze.

Sleeping Muse, 1910

Constantin Brancusi

Abstract painting of several various-colored and overlapping rings and circles, looser brushstrokes drape across the circles like winding thread.

Untitled, 1964

Tanaka Atsuko

Painting of an arid landscape in blue, beige, and gray. At left, a dark figure-like form sits atop a beige archway, two gray kidney shapes below it.

Untitled (Dream of Venus) formerly Visions of Eternity, 1939

Salvador Dalí

Miniature upper-class room with white wood-paneled walls, chandelier, wooden furniture, and canopied bed and curtains draped with matching printed fabrics.

A8: Massachusetts Bedroom, c. 1801, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of printed broadside.

Declaration of the independence of the imagination and the rights of man to his own madness, 1939

Salvador Dalí

A work made of woodcut monoprint in black on japanese paper.

Weaving (Tecelar), 1953

Lygia Pape

A blackish square with the words "It's only vanishing cream" written in a capitalized, blocky font in a gray-black color just a few shades lighter than its background.

It's Only Vanishing Cream, 1973

Ed Ruscha

A work made of 67 gelatin silver prints, 53 inkjet prints, single-channel video, color, with sound, 58 min..

The Last Cruze, 2019

LaToya Ruby Frazier

A work made of wild silk, plain weave; appliquéd with silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk- and gold-leaf-paper-strip wrapped silk in detached chain, satin and stem stitches; laid work, couching and french knots; and glass beads.

The Bride, c. 1906

Ann Macbeth

Vertically oriented painting of a dark, featureless figure with a bulb-shaped head utop an ivory archway, gray wispy object emanating from the figure. Below on arid ground lie two gray bean-like shapes, ghostly figures in the distance.

Untitled (Desert Landscape), 1934

Salvador Dalí

A work made of oil on glass.

The Dance, 1940

Kurt Seligmann

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Figure of a Seated Dog, 1–300 CE

Colima

A work made of bamboo.

Peony Basket "Kohai", 1983

Fujinuma Noboru

A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.

White Chrysanthemums and Pinks in a Black Vase, 1765/70

Ippitsusai Buncho

A woodblock print featuring a wooden bridge on stilts elevated high above a body of shallow water on which floats a long flat boat. At shore, a figure bends over in the water and tends to a horse.

Okazaki: Yahagi Bridge on the Yahagi River (Okazaki, Yahagigawa Yahagi no hashi), no. 39 from the series "Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojusan tsugi meisho zue)," also known as the Vertical Tokaido, 1855

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of daguerreotype.

Untitled (Portrait of Two Men), 1855

Robert H. Vance

A work made of oil on hemp cloth.

Conjunction 81-79, 1981

Chong-Hyun Ha

A work made of oil on hemp cloth.

Conjunction 79–31, 1979

Chong-Hyun Ha

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