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A work made of brush and black ink on ivory wove paper.

Head, July 1947

Henri Matisse

A work made of linen, plain weave; screen printed.

Océanie - La Mer (Oceania - The Sea), 1948

Henri Matisse

A work made of pieced of nine strips of cotton; plain weave with bands of supplementary patterning wefts.

Blanket, Mid–20th century

Dogon

A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit tapestry weave (kossu); painted; lined with silk, 3:1 twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing.

Man's Rank Badge, 1880/1900, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Manchu

A work made of etching and aquatint in brown on tan wove paper.

The Carmagnole, 1901

Käthe Kollwitz

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life, February 4, 1922

Pablo Picasso

A work made of glass, blown technique.

Jar, 3rd-4th century

Ancient Roman

A work made of blue ballpoint pen, colored pencil, and pastel on cream wove paper.

Poverty Hollar Near Luck Missouri, 1966

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of 15 pastel drawings on white wove paper.

Boost West, 1990

Edgar Heap of Birds

Painting of a cabin set below a dark blue sky and fluffy white clouds. Behind it is a field of many small white dots. In front, a dark-skinned woman sits and a dark-skinned child plays among roaming chickens and dogs in a fenced-in yard.

Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931–37

Horace Pippin

A work made of acrylic on canvas.

Untitled (For Matisse), 1969

Ronnie Landfield

Border Fragments

Border Fragments, 200 CE-500CE

Nasca

A painting in earth tones features numerous stick-figure drawings that evoke cave drawings. The lines of the drawings are rendered in bright pastels, and the figures rise up the canvas on a zig-zagging line. Green and light-gray smokiness proliferates.

Self-Portrait and Autobiography, 1948

Alice Rahon

A work made of oil, sand, pebbles and string on canvas.

Peau de soleil, 1944

Alice Rahon

Print shows a sweeping perspective view of a wide expanse of land and water rendered in pastel shades of yellow, green, and blue, the land cutting paths between pools. Figures work along these paths, beneath straw-roofed structures, and in fields. A lone snowy mountain rises in the distance, and clouds encroach upon the scene from the right.

The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A pastel-colored drawing outlined in blue ballpoint pen featuring a rugged landscape of rocky hills or mountains dotted by groves of trees and traversed by a path. The colors and contours of the terrain swirl about in the manner of rainbow sherbet. Individual plants and cacti drawn at an exaggerated scale dot the scene. Cursive text at upper left reads, "Brazus Valley Amerilo Texas by Joseph E. Yoakum."

Brazus Valley Amerilo Texas, 1966

Joseph Yoakum

A work made of color woodblock print; ōban.

Yoshitsune’s Horse-Washing Falls at Yoshino in Yamato Province (Washū Yoshino Yoshitsune uma arai no taki), from the series Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri), About 1833

Katsushika Hokusai

Photographic portrait of a medium dark–skinned pregnant woman. She sits on a wooden chair, holding her belly with her right hand and her cheek with her left. The image is divided up into six framed panels arranged in three rows of two panels each.

Oneika I, 1996

Dawoud Bey

Abstract painting composed of small vertical dabs of multiple shades of blue with a small area of similar strokes of red, orange, and yellow in the upper right.

Starry Night and the Astronauts, 1972

Alma Thomas

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers, 1724

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

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