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A work made of limestone with traces of polychromy.

Buddha, Tang dynasty (A.D. 618–907), c. 725/50

A two-handled, bulbous vessel with a painted image of five human figures, one carrying a shield. The central, bearded man holds a lion by its neck.

Belly-Amphora (Storage Jar), 550-540 BCE

Painter of Tarquinia RC 3984

A work made of stone in mortar.

Mosaic Fragment with Man Leading a Giraffe, 5th century

Byzantine

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

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

Forest and Sun, 1927

Max Ernst

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

Untitled, 1928

Yves Tanguy

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

Working a little bunch in the hills, c. 1900

Laton Alton Huffman

A rather stark, clean-lined painting shows a fireplace mantle topped with a clock against a bare wall with wood paneling. From the back wall of the fireplace, a black locomotive emerges, belching smoke and riding an unseen track in the the air.

La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed), 1938

René Magritte

A work made of oil on canvas.

Têtes-paysage, 1928

Francis Picabia

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 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

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 oil on canvas.

The Earth Is a Man, 1942

Matta

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