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Scale miniature of a rustic but refined kitchen with a varnished wooden table at center and one chair. A dark wooden chest sits beneath the window at left, a spinning wheel in the left back corner. In the right corner is an ornately carved door adjacent to a staircase. Metal plates line a wide hearth.

A17: Pennsylvania Kitchen, 1752, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

E-5: English Cottage Kitchen of the Queen Anne Period, 1702-14, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Painting in shades of dark red, brown, and black, depicting figures crowded in a doorway of a small hut, engaged in conflict. One man looms in front of the doorway with a stoic expression, and four other figures kneel and stand beside him. One points a sword at his face.

Zapata, 1930

José Clemente Orozco

A work made of stone in mortar.

Mosaic Fragment with Grazing Camel, 5th century

Byzantine

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Calyx Krater (Mixing Bowl), about 400-380 BCE

Perugia Painter

A work made of wood and pigment.

Female Headdress (Nimba, D'mba, or Yamban), Mid 19th-early 20th century

Baga

Terracotta vessel with a narrow neck and small, curved handles, areas of black indicating lost portions of a battle scene.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 340-330 BCE

Ixion Painter

A work made of gelatin silver (printing-out-paper) print.

Working a little bunch in the hills, c. 1900

Laton Alton Huffman

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Stamnos (Mixing Jar), about 450 BCE

Chicago Painter

Three-dimensional piece featuring a large eyeball, oriented sideways, on a wooden pin set in a flat piece of yellow wood at upper right, cursive writing in French on the wood. Strands of curly hair and the wooden cutout of a cloud are affixed to the eyeball. Affixed to the wood, at lower left, is a tiny light-skinned hand with fingers reaching upward.

Object, 1936

Claude Cahun

Dark atmospheric painting of sun, obscured by clouds between two tree groves.

Forest and Sun, 1927

Max Ernst

White plaster statue of woman with protruding compartments, each adorned with fur pompom.

Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936

Salvador Dalí

A painting of strange and surreal scene in a desert landscape with mountains in the background. The scene features a giraffe that is on fire, disembodied forms and faces, and skeletal figures.

Inventions of the Monsters, 1937

Salvador Dalí

A work made of painted wood.

Manicured Relief, 1930

Jean (Hans) Arp

Large painting on seven panels of dark landscape with small abstract shapes.

Untitled, 1928

Yves Tanguy

A work made of oil on canvas.

Têtes-paysage, 1928

Francis Picabia

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Earth Is a Man, 1942

Matta

A wooden sculpture of the head and neck of a person, the skin painted gold, a geometrically decorated long wig, and many painted symbols.

Funerary Mask, Late Ptolemaic Period-early Roman Period, 1st century BCE

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

E-18: French Salon of the Louis XIV Period, 1660-1700, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes.

Camel and Rider, Tang dynasty (618–907), first half of 8th century

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