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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

Medium sized olive colored urn, upper half carved into figures and structures.

Funerary Urn (Hunping), Western Jin dynasty (A.D. 265–316), late 3rd century

A work made of marble.

Flight from Pompeii, 1873

Giovanni Maria Benzoni

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Eruption of Vesuvius, 1771

Pierre-Jacques Volaire

A work made of site-specific, text-based light installation.

Public Notice 3, September 2010

Jitish Kallat

A work made of relief etching in brownish-red on ivory wove paper.

Vesuvius III, 1982

Janet Stayton

A work made of oil on canvas.

Red and Pink Rocks and Teeth, 1938

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of oil on canvas.

Self-Portrait, 1935

Ivan Albright

Painting of a bone-white cow's skull directly centered in a vertical canvas, adorned with gray-white roses. The background behind the skull is similarly pale and appears to depict stone, a deep black gap between sheets of stone bisecting the painting from top to bottom.

Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, 1931

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of watercolor on paper.

Naples with Mt. Vesuvius, 1835

Rudolf von Alt

A work made of lithograph on white wove paper.

Hats Vesuvius, 1973

Claes Oldenburg

Abstract painting in predominant shades of blue, green, and black, featuring diagonal bands of color and undulating lines.

Blue and Green Music, 1919–21

Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting of man who is seated with his hands over his lap. He is dressed in prayer clothes, with a white shawl draped over his head and shoulders. His facial features and hands are slightly distorted, and the background is an abstract pattern of black and white.

The Praying Jew, 1923 (one of two versions after a 1914 composition)

Marc Chagall

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

Gideon, 1951

Charles White

A work made of watercolor and opaque watercolor with wax resist over graphite on ivory wove paper.

The Loggia, Vizcaya, 1917

John Singer Sargent

In a stark desert landscape, an older man sits in the foreground, illuminated, with a newspaper. Arranged evenly across the land behind him, smaller than perspective would indicate, are a faded child holding a hula hoop, a man holding a melting piano, a standing woman, and a figure near the horizon.

A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano, 1936

Salvador Dalí

Black charcoal drawing of two field workers with scythe.

Harvest Talk, 1953

Charles White

A work made of silver dye-bleach print.

Untitled, 1979

Luis Medina

A work made of silver dye-bleach print.

Untitled, c. 1980

Luis Medina

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