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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

The outer hard case of an Egyptian mummy is painted with a gold face, a blue geometric wig, a colorful bird across the chest, and various scenes across the lower portion featuring figures of gods and goddesses.

Coffin and Mummy of Paankhaenamun, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, reign of Osorkon I (about 924–889 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

Life-size painting of an urban scene in Paris. A man in a top hat holding an umbrella and a woman in a long fashionable dark dress walk arm in arm toward the viewer as other city dwellers with umbrellas walk in various directions across cobblestone roads and sidewalks.

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Gustave Caillebotte

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

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

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 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

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

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

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