Abstract painting composed of a central tangle of vibrant colors—purple, pink, orange, green, red—on a mostly gray background, subtly divided into rectangular areas.

City Landscape, 1955

Joan Mitchell

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

Horizontal painting in pastel tones of a series of abstract clouds in a gridlike formation like loose bricks, larger at the bottom of the painting and receding away at a horizon line near the top of the painting. Behind them, a blue sky gets progressively lighter. At the horizon line is a loose pink gradient that progresses to white and returns to blue at the very top of the work.

Sky above Clouds IV, 1965

Georgia O'Keeffe

A work made of oil on canvas.

Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch), 1875

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Three light-skinned, dark-haired ballerinas, painted in muted tones, wear off-the-shoulder yellow leotards and tutus as they huddle near each other. One adjusts her costume, while one holds her hands clasped above her head. At left is a painted screen with four pairs of feet visible underneath.

Yellow Dancers (In the Wings), 1874–76

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left. The background is a feathered swirl suggesting floral pattern in cool pale tones of gray, purple, pink, and blue.

Woman at Her Toilette, 1875–80

Berthe Morisot

Painting of mother in blue, purple, and green-stripped dress washing child's feet.

The Child's Bath, 1893

Mary Cassatt

Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

Claude Monet

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

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Three figures dark-skinned, elongated figures lie on a bed of patterned quilts, viewed from above, slightly abstracted. The central figure wears no clothing, their back and buttocks visible. A leg juts in at bottom right. To the right of the bed on a wooden floor lie newspapers and a white baby doll.

The Room No. VI, 1948

Eldzier Cortor

Wooden chair with numerous spindles arranged close together to make a cube.

Spindle Cube Chair, 1902–6

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Punch Bowl, c. 1789

Chinese export porcelain

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

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

The Herring Net, 1885

Winslow Homer

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