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A work made of cherry, birch, ash and maple.

Sewing Desk, 1860–70

Shaker

Miniature dining room with dark wood floors, dark wooden furniture, walls decorated with floral paintings.

A20: Virginia Dining Room, 1758, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Miniature room featuring wide-plank hardwood floors, round hooked rugs, simple wooden furnishings, and a wood-burning stove. The window frames and door frames are painted green, while the walls are a light butter yellow.

A18: Shaker Living Room, c. 1800, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of mixed media including cloth, cork, gouache, metal, moss, papier-mâché, polychrome, terracotta, straw, watercolor, wax, and wood.

Crèche, 1725–75, with later additions

Neapolitan

Scene in a diner, viewed through wrap-around glass windows, at night on an empty urban street. A light-skinned man and woman, he in a suit and she in a red dress, sit together at a triangular wood bar, eyes downcast. At left sits another man, his back to the viewer. Behind the counter is a light-skinned man in a white uniform. The interior lights cast a yellow glow that spills onto the street in pale green. Above the diner a sign reads, "Phillies."

Nighthawks, 1942

Edward Hopper

Miniature room with two green chairs, bronze sculpture, harp, and walls decorated in dark marble and gold accents.

E-26: French Anteroom of the Empire Period, c. 1810, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of linen, cartonnage, human remains.

Mummified Man, Ptolemaic Period (about 2nd–1st century BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of wood, textile, and pigment.

Coffin of Wenuhotep, Third Intermediate–Late Period, late Dynasty 25–early Dynasty 26, about 675–600 BCE

Ancient Egyptian

A group of people of varying skin tones stand in line, some of them holding baskets and bags. Behind them is a billboard with a picture of four smiling, light-skinned figures in a car, under the slogan "World's Highest Standard of Living. There's no way like the American Way."

World's Highest Standard of Living, 1937, printed later

Margaret Bourke-White

A work made of graphite, with stumping, on light-weight yellowish-tan wove paper, laid down on white wove paper, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper.

Sheet of Studies with the Head of the Fornarina and Hands of Madame de Senonnes, 1814/16

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Painting of a light-skinned woman dressed in a gauzy white gown with black trim playing an upright paino.

Woman at the Piano, 1875–76

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A work made of engraving in black on ivory laid paper.

The Discovery of Holofernes's Corpse, plate eight from The Story of Judith and Holofernes, 1564

Philips Galle

White marble bust of woman wearing headband and tunic.

Portrait Bust of a Woman, Mid–2nd century

Ancient Roman

A work made of pen and black ink and brush and black wash, over lilac wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.

Soldiers Discovering the Body of Holofernes, c. 1550

Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration

A work made of silver.

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Empress Faustina the Elder, after 141

Ancient Roman

Dark colored sculpture of womandz head composed of fractured geometric shapes.

Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909

Pablo Picasso

A work made of stencil.

Untitled, May 10, 1945

Vladimir I. Ladiagin

A work made of graphite on ivory wove paper.

Six Busts of Women, May 21, 1962

Pablo Picasso

A work made of bronze.

Jester, 1905

Pablo Picasso

Cubist painting of woman, bright yellow, green, purple colors.

The Red Armchair, December 16, 1931

Pablo Picasso

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