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The North Star

The North Star, 2022

Carrie Mae Weems

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

The North Star

The North Star, 2022

Carrie Mae Weems

The North Star

The North Star, 2022

Carrie Mae Weems

The North Star

The North Star, 2022

Carrie Mae Weems

A work made of douglas-fir marine plywood, masonite, and ink.

The Big Change, 1963

H. C. Westermann

A work made of 10 strips of cotton, undyed and dyed with indigo and commercial orange dye; weft faced, strip woven, machine stitched together, finished with twisted fringe.

Kosso walani, Mid-20th century

Bamana

A work made of earthenware and slip.

Vessel with Black-and-White Motifs, 1890s

Pueblo of Acoma

A work made of bronze.

A Goddess, Champa period, 9th–10th century

Cham

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

The Elements (Furnishing Fabric), 1810/20

Bonaventure M. Lebert

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Alley, Chicago, 1948

Harry Callahan

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 galvanized iron.

Bottle Rack (Porte-Bouteilles), 1914/1959

Marcel Duchamp

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

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 pen and black ink and brush and black and brown ink washes, over red chalk, on cream laid paper.

Flowers in an Urn Decorated with Putti, on a Plinth, early 18th century

Jan van Huysum

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