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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

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 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 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 bronze.

Jester, 1905

Pablo Picasso

Sculpture of three flowers in different states of bloom in a simple vase.

Flowers in a Vase, 1951 (cast 1953)

Pablo Picasso

A work made of stencil.

Untitled, May 10, 1945

Vladimir I. Ladiagin

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

The Red Armchair, December 16, 1931

Pablo Picasso

Abstract work of numerous vertical lines dividing a horizontal image, making rectangular shapes in black, white, yellow, and white with tiny black dots forming the effect of a gray gradient. Many of the shapes have diagonal white bands running irregularly across them, evoking reflective surfaces of different angles.

Mirror #3 (Six Panels), 1971

Roy Lichtenstein

Black-and-white photograph of formally dressed light-skinned black men and women posed indoors in two rows around a banner that reads “Monte Carlo Sporting Club Org 1934.”

Monte Carlo Sporting Club, 1934

James VanDerZee

Two girls in acrobatic uniforms stand in an arena, one holds oranges.

Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg), 1879

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

A32: Louisiana Bedroom, 1800-50, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Large ebony cabinet with white designs, ivory figures, clock.

Cabinet, About 1640

A work made of graphite on ivory wove paper.

Six Busts of Women, May 21, 1962

Pablo Picasso

A work made of oil on canvas.

Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation, c. 1595–c. 1600

Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco

Painting of several light-skinned people gathered around a table in front of a gilded mirror, playing instruments. At left, seated next to a woman in an off-the-shoulder gown, a man in a plumed hat plays a lute. At center right, another man plays a cello, while a dog and cat eat from a dish underfoot.

The Family Concert, 1666

Jan Steen

A work made of ink and graphite on vellum.

ABC Office Building, New York City, New York, Plan, January 1963

Bertrand Goldberg