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A work made of oil on canvas.

Buoy, 1941

Peter Blume

Painting of a placid-looking, light-skinned woman in a maroon dress, seated in a chair with yellow upholstery, hands folded.

Madame Cezanne in a Yellow Chair, 1888–90

Paul Cezanne

Serene red-haired woman, framed with allegorical symbols of red bird, sundial.

Beata Beatrix, 1871–72

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A work made of wood, antique micro-seed beads, micro-porcupine quills, metal sequins, catlinite, shell, brass, metal, chicken feathers, hair, paint, cotton, wool, fabric, deer skin, antler, horn, and bells.

Lakota Honor - Sees The Horses Woman - SuWakan Ayutan Win, 2011-23

Rhonda Holy Bear, Wakah Wayuphika Win, Making with Exceptional Skills Woman

A work made of black ballpoint pen and graphite on cream wove card.

Untitled, 1971

Christina Ramberg

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 wood, hide, hair, beads, feathers, and pigment.

Assiniboine Scalp Shirt Wearer, c. 1986

Rhonda Holy Bear, Wakah Wayuphika Win, Making with Exceptional Skills Woman

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

Male of Sorrows #5, 1970, printed 1971

Barbara Rossi

A work made of colored crayons, with graphite and brush and gray wash, on off-white wove paper.

Untitled, 1967

Theodore Halkin

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

A brightly colored textile work shows two women on either side and a dog in between them. The woman on the left is light-skinned and dances—her arms upraised, her right leg bent behind her—in a vibrant pink leotard. The other woman—dark-skinned with dark hair radiating from her head at all angles and wearing a dark blue full body suit—stands facing forward, looking at the viewer with a finger raised at us.

Black Dog Blues, 1983

Emma Amos

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 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 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

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 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

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)

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