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A sculpture comprises a featureless face made up of a mottled black and white substance, a short Afro hairstyle in a dark blue-green hue, and a slender dark neck from which a raffia skirt expands down to the top of the pedestal. Behind the sculpture, paneled glass windows look through to other buildings and a hint of green treetops.

Dunham, 2017

Simone Leigh

A work made of pen and black ink and watercolor, with collage of cut-and-pasted tan wove papers, on ivory wove paper, mounted.

Untitled, 1952

Evelyn Statsinger

A work made of color etching and aquatint on white wove paper.

Male of Sorrows #5, 1970, printed 1971

Barbara Rossi

Sculpture of a head with a flat nose, almond-shaped eyes with half-closed lids, and a small smile with a missing tooth. The figure's hair is almost architectural, jutting out at right angles in five massive spirals of twisted hair as wide as the face itself.

Headdress, Probably first half of the 20th century

Painting of a red-haired, bearded man with light skin, painted in short brushstrokes and multicolored dots. The background is likewise a mass of small, closely spaced colored dots, these in green, blue, and red-orange.

Self-Portrait, 1887

Vincent van Gogh

A recumbent, full-figured nude rendered in pink and gray geometric shapes, her hands above her head, on a gray and blue ground, a brown tree with sparse needles behind her.

Nude under a Pine Tree, January 20, 1959

Pablo Picasso

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

Seated Guanyin, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Small iron sculpture of a dragon with a serpentine body, legs with talons, and long tail, all made of moveable joints.

Articulated Dragon, c. 1880

School of Myochin

A work made of porcelain painted in green, yellow, and aubergine glazes.

Box with Opera Scene, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1722)

A work made of steel with gilding.

Plackart from an Armor possibly of Prince Nikolaus VIII Christoph Radziwill of Poland (1549-1616), 1573

Black print on cream paper with lightly sketched figures. At left is a corseted woman in profile, and at right, a man in coat and top hat. They stand close together, face to face.

Old Man and Young Girl, 1899

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A lithograph in black on ivory paper shows a woman's face and neck straight on. The few lines confidently define her facial features and bright, open eyes. Her long hair is described in tumbles and spiraling lines around her head.

Françoise, June 14, 1946

Pablo Picasso

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 black ash, braided ash, cedar bark, and synthetic dye.

Nearly Monochrome, 2022

Jeremy Frey

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 opaque watercolor with gilded paper on canvas on wood.

Shiva Nataraja Enshrined at Chidambaram Temple with Attendants, 19th century

A work made of stoneware (jasperware and black basalt), cut steel, and ivory.

Anti-Slavery Medallion, 1787

Wedgwood Manufactory

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)

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