Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
Five stick-like figures in black and white with orange highlights float against a colorful background, four stars in the left corner.

Painting (Figures with Stars), 1933

Joan Miró

A work made of oil on canvas.

PH-246, 1951/52

Clyfford Still

A work made of bronze.

Tall Figure, 1947

Alberto Giacometti

A work made of white marble.

Growth, 1938/60

Jean (Hans) Arp

Abstract painting with soft shapes of brown, pink, yellow, red.

The Plow and the Song, 1946–47

Arshile Gorky

A tall, spindly human figure in rough bronze with an elongated torso and arms and dramatically long, thin, kneeless legs appears to be walking mid-stride, both feet on the ground but quite far apart

Walking Man II, 1960

Alberto Giacometti

A work made of oil on canvas.

Pictograph-Symbol, 1942

Adolph Gottlieb

An abstract painting of swirls that cover the entire canvas. The swirls have the appearance of rising smoke, and the plumes curl up in shades of black, purple, and blue against a cream background. The nature of the swirls makes it look as though the plumes have eyes, or that they might be feathers.

Untitled (Fumage), 1938

Wolfgang Paalen

A work made of plaster, oil, and dry pigments on paper mounted to canvas.

All Alone, 1957

Jean Fautrier

A work made of wood, porcelain and metal knobs, cloth, and house paint.

Untitled, Lexington, 1948

Cy Twombly

Untitled, New York

Untitled, New York, 1955

Cy Twombly

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Rapidity of Sleep, 1945

Yves Tanguy

Vertical black sculpture of rounded and rectangular shapes, suggesting a human figure.

Spoon Woman, 1926–27 (cast 1954)

Alberto Giacometti

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life, 1938

Pierre Roy

A room with canon at left pointed toward a wall divided into four segments: wood grain at top left; at top right, gray tubes with halved spheres; at bottom left, blue sky and clouds; and at bottom right, a brown building with curtained windows. A left wall, segmented in two, features a nude female torso at top and detailed trees at bottom. The right wall features a top panel of wavy yellow and orange, while bottom panel has a pink, cutout-like motif.

On the Threshold of Liberty, February–March 1937

René Magritte

A work made of wood, metal, plastic, nails, screws, paint, twine, paper, and concrete.

Figure, 1935

Pablo Picasso

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Blue Forest, 1925

Max Ernst

A work made of oil on canvas.

Portable Garbo, 1941

Wilhelm Freddie

A work made of wood, shell, and keys.

Assemblage, c. 1922

Paul Joostens

Forest filled with dozens of mostly nude women and men.

The Awakening of the Forest, 1939

Paul Delvaux

<<<726727728729 >>>