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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

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

A abstract painting in which numerous planes of brown and gray, along with highlights of black and white, compose the figure of a man. The most recognizable features are a pair of clasped hands and the wave of his dark hair.

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, autumn 1910

Pablo Picasso

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

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life with Queen, 1912

Gabriele Münter

Abstract painting in various bright colors—yellow, blue, red, green, orange, pink—with lines indicating building-like structures as well as canons in the lower right corner.

Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913

Vasily Kandinsky

A square white tile, rotated 90 degrees, crossed by black lines intersecting at 90-degree angles. A few of the shapes thus formed—some partial squares, some rectangles—are colored in a single shade of yellow, blue, black, or red.

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray, 1921

Piet Mondrian

A work made of oil on canvas.

Reminiscence of a Cathedral, 1920/23

František Kupka

A minimalist, elongated sculpture made of reflective and shiny bronze. The sculpture is long and slightly curved, suggesting the shape of a bird, and sits atop a stone base that is balanced on top of a geometric wooden base.

Golden Bird, 1919/20 (base c. 1922)

Constantin Brancusi

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

A work made of inkjet print.

Untitled

Dawit L. Petros

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Plantation Overseer and his Field Hands, Mississippi Delta, 1936, printed 1936-37

Dorothea Lange

A work made of oil on panel.

Young Man in a Turban, c. 1650

Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn

A work made of marble.

Statue of a Young Boy, 1st century

Ancient Roman

Large painted portrait of Mao wearing eyeshadow, blush, blue backdrop.

Mao, 1972

Andy Warhol

A work made of marble.

Statue of Meleager, 1st-2nd century

Ancient Roman

A work made of marble.

Fragment of a Portrait Statue of a Man, 2nd century

Ancient Roman

A fragment of a marble sculpture beginning at the hips and ending below the knee. The female figure wears a thin, draping fabric showing the outline of the body.

Fragment of a Statue of Venus, 1st-2nd century

Ancient Roman

A work made of marble.

Cinerary Urn, Late 1st-early 2nd century

Ancient Roman

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