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A work made of color woodblock print; ōban.

Yoshitsune’s Horse-Washing Falls at Yoshino in Yamato Province (Washū Yoshino Yoshitsune uma arai no taki), from the series Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri), About 1833

Katsushika Hokusai

A painting in earth tones features numerous stick-figure drawings that evoke cave drawings. The lines of the drawings are rendered in bright pastels, and the figures rise up the canvas on a zig-zagging line. Green and light-gray smokiness proliferates.

Self-Portrait and Autobiography, 1948

Alice Rahon

Photographic portrait of a medium dark–skinned pregnant woman. She sits on a wooden chair, holding her belly with her right hand and her cheek with her left. The image is divided up into six framed panels arranged in three rows of two panels each.

Oneika I, 1996

Dawoud Bey

A work made of oil on canvas.

Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers, 1724

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Print shows a sweeping perspective view of a wide expanse of land and water rendered in pastel shades of yellow, green, and blue, the land cutting paths between pools. Figures work along these paths, beneath straw-roofed structures, and in fields. A lone snowy mountain rises in the distance, and clouds encroach upon the scene from the right.

The Tea Plantation of Katakura in Suruga Province (Sunshu Katakura chaen no Fuji), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)", c. 1830/33

Katsushika Hokusai

A pastel-colored drawing outlined in blue ballpoint pen featuring a rugged landscape of rocky hills or mountains dotted by groves of trees and traversed by a path. The colors and contours of the terrain swirl about in the manner of rainbow sherbet. Individual plants and cacti drawn at an exaggerated scale dot the scene. Cursive text at upper left reads, "Brazus Valley Amerilo Texas by Joseph E. Yoakum."

Brazus Valley Amerilo Texas, 1966

Joseph Yoakum

Sculpture composed of irregular pieces of steel resembling a human figure.

Hero Construction, 1958

Richard Hunt

Photograph of a two-story house painted bright red, including the door, boarded windows, and porch posts, with only a small patch of blue above a window. The pitched roof is black. The house is set in the left side of the photograph, empty lots around it.

Color(ed) Theory: Flamin' Red Hots, 2014-15

Amanda Williams

A work made of basswood, paint, glass, and metal.

Middle Row Jumping Horse (Carousel Figure), c. 1924

Daniel Müller

Perspective aerial drawing of Chicago's lakefront and harbor, park, and cityscape sprawling beyond the bottom of the page.

Plate 137 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. View of the Proposed Development in the Center of the City, from Twenty-Second Street to Chicago Avenue, Looking Towards the East Over the Civic Center to Grant Park and Lake Michigan, 1907

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of handmade book with ten color lithographs on ivory wove paper.

Memories of Childhood, 1999

Roger Shimomura

Abstract painting composed of small vertical dabs of multiple shades of blue with a small area of similar strokes of red, orange, and yellow in the upper right.

Starry Night and the Astronauts, 1972

Alma Thomas

Print rendered in visible uniform lines of a 2/3 bust view of a dark-skinned mature woman looking to her left in a wide brim hat, a safety pin securing her black jacket. Her face and neck is a rich brown hue, while the rest of the portrait is rendered in black and white.

Sharecropper, 1952, printed 1970

Elizabeth Catlett

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Polychrome Jar, c. 1920

Isabel Medina Toribio (Aitiye')

A work made of glazed steatite.

Amulet of Thoth, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of ceramic and pigment.

Pedestal Bowl Depicting an Anthropomorphic Saurian Figure, 1100–1300

Coclé

Three-part bronze sculpture set of two clenched hands and a man's face with closed eyes and mouth, an object in one hand.

Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln, Cast in plaster 1860; cast in bronze by 1888

Leonard Wells Volk

A work made of double sided, cotton and polyester, plain weaves, some printed, some fulled; pieced; polyester batting, quilted with cotton and polyester thread.

"Pinwheel" Quilt, c. 1975

Allie Pettway

Close-up view of the face of a medium brown–skinned man cupping his chin in his hand, his eyes closed. The brushstrokes are visible and his features are somewhat exaggerated and disproportionate. He is set against a light green background.

Barack, 2020

Jordan Casteel

A carving in tan-and-white stone of the upper body of a pharaoh wearing an elaborate headdress.

Facade Panel from the National Pythian Temple, Chicago, Illinois, c. 1927 (demolished 1980)

Walter T. Bailey

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