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A work made of bone china, enamel, and gilding.

Pair of Jardinieres, 1874

A work made of oil on linen.

Composition, 1951

Ernest Mancoba

Sculpture of a man's head in beige limestone, facing front. The nose is strong and angular, the lips closed and full, the ears flat at top, the hair textured and cropped short. The wide eyes are deeply carved.

Head (Head of a Man), c. 1941

Elizabeth Catlett

A work made of aluminum.

Softly, effectively, 2017

Park McArthur

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 work made of oil, mixed media on canvas.

What black is this you say?—”I thought red koolaid was juice til I was 10 years old”—black (06.03.20), 2021

Amanda Williams

A work made of bronze.

A Goddess, possibly Uma, Champa period, 9th/10th century

A work made of ceramic (earthenware) and pigment.

Black-and-White Storage Jar with Abstract Geometric Motifs, 1890s

Pueblo of Acoma

A work made of watercolor and opaque watercolor with printed paper fragments over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper.

Tarragona Terrace and Garden, c. 1908

John Singer Sargent

A work made of hand-colored etching and acquaint on ivory wove paper.

Doctor Syntax Returned from His Tour, from The Tour of Doctor Syntax, c. 1812

Thomas Rowlandson

A work made of woodcut and letterpress in black (recto and verso) on buff laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper mat.

The Martyrdom of Saint Simon of Trent from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel’s World History), Plate 23 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century, 1493, portfolio assembled 1929

Michel Wolgemut

A work made of cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed.

The Elements (Furnishing Fabric), 1810/20

Bonaventure M. Lebert

Painting, mostly in shades of blue, of a thin, bent, older man wearing ragged clothes and sitting cross-legged playing a guitar positioned upright in his lap.

The Old Guitarist, late 1903–early 1904

Pablo Picasso

Dark stone sculpture of Buddha sitting cross-legged, hands in lap, eyes closed.

Buddha Shakyamuni Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra), Chola period, about 12th century

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Alley, Chicago, 1948

Harry Callahan

A work made of galvanized iron.

Bottle Rack (Porte-Bouteilles), 1914/1959

Marcel Duchamp

A print features at its center a version of Pablo Picasso's "The Old Guitarist"—depicting, in various shades of blue, an old man sitting cross-legged, playing guitar. Around it are smaller sketches related to Picasso's work in red and blue. At the top, "Pablo Picasso Spanish 1881" is written in red type, at the bottom "The Old Guitarist 1903."

The Old Guitarist, from The Blue Guitar, 1976–77

David Hockney

A work made of marble.

Cinerary Urn of Plautia Hesperis, 1st century

Ancient Roman

A work made of oil on canvas.

Western Industrial, 1955

Charles Sheeler

A work made of cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed; glazed.

Map of North America (Handkerchief), 1811

R. Gray

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