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Painting of two fishermen in small wooden boat on rocky seas.

The Herring Net, 1885

Winslow Homer

Impressionist painting of two girls on balcony, bright flower hat, knitting basket.

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Large abstract painting with red, blue, white, black shapes.

Ready-to-Wear, 1955

Stuart Davis

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Irish Question, 1880s

De Scott Evans

Portrait of a light-skinned woman with dark curly hair and to her right a small, blond child. Both are elegantly dressed, the woman in a dark, short-sleeved dress with gathered bodice and the child in a short-sleeved white dress. A white tassel hangs down above the child from a nearby curtain.

Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan, c. 1805

Joshua Johnson

Black bronze statue of African American man, shackles broken, sitting on tree stump.

The Freedman, Modeled 1862–63

John Quincy Adams Ward

A work made of ebonized walnut with gilt decoration and upholstery.

Armchair, About 1869; patented in 1869

George Jakob Hunzinger

White marble bust of a woman with shoulder-length wavy hair wearing a crown and robes.

Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, modeled c. 1859; carved after 1859

Harriet Hosmer

A work made of hard-paste porcelain, glaze, enamels in colors, gilding.

Punch Bowl, c. 1789

Chinese export porcelain

A abstract painting in which numerous planes of brown and gray, along with highlights of black and white, compose the figure of a man. The most recognizable features are a pair of clasped hands and the wave of his dark hair.

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, autumn 1910

Pablo Picasso

Painting of a vast autumn scene with two very small figures in Indigenous clothing standing on a cliff overlooking a massive waterfall in the distance.

Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830

Thomas Cole

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life with Queen, 1912

Gabriele Münter

Abstract painting in various bright colors—yellow, blue, red, green, orange, pink—with lines indicating building-like structures as well as canons in the lower right corner.

Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913

Vasily Kandinsky

A work made of oil and silver paper on canvas.

Broken and Restored Multiplication, 1918–19

Suzanne Duchamp

A work made of oil on canvas.

Reminiscence of a Cathedral, 1920/23

František Kupka

Painting of four nude women composed of geometric shapes, against patterned background.

Bathers by a River, 1909–10, 1913, and 1916–17

Henri Matisse

Surrealist painting of cannon, artichokes, clock, train, desolate backdrop.

The Philosopher's Conquest, 1913–14

Giorgio de Chirico

A square white tile, rotated 90 degrees, crossed by black lines intersecting at 90-degree angles. A few of the shapes thus formed—some partial squares, some rectangles—are colored in a single shade of yellow, blue, black, or red.

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921

Piet Mondrian

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

A minimalist, elongated sculpture made of reflective and shiny bronze. The sculpture is long and slightly curved, suggesting the shape of a bird, and sits atop a stone base that is balanced on top of a geometric wooden base.

Golden Bird, 1919/20 (base c. 1922)

Constantin Brancusi

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