Two Columns of Calligraphy, Each with Five Characters
Korean
Playing the Zither under the Pines, 1861 - 1919
An Chung-sik (also known as Sim-chŏn)
Two Scholars Seated in a Landscape, Engaged in Conversation, and Admiring a Waterfall While an Attendant Prepares Tea, 1707 - 1769
Shim Sa-chŏng (also known as Yi-suk ['cha']; Hyŏn-chae ['ho'])
Maquette for "Sun Gate" and "Pulse of Morning", born 1947
Murray Dewart
Christ on the Cross, 1586 - 1659
Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), 1822 - 1872
Thomas Buchanan Read
Orchids and Rocks, 1820 - 1898
Yi Ha-ŭng (also known as Taewŏn’gun)
Rubbing from a Stele Engraved with a Figure of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Kannon Bosatsu) Standing Amidst Clouds; design after the Chinese artist Wu Daozi (8th c.)
Japanese
Untitled (Artists' Union demonstrators among other worker groups, May Day Parade, Communist Party route, possibly in Union Square, New York City), 1898 - 1969
Ben Shahn
Folio 10 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Hero on horseback fighting a dragon (recto); Couple entertained on a terrace by musicians and dancers (verso)
Persian
Mystical Shore, 1863 - 1944
Edvard Munch
Artist's Possessions/The White Shell (Shiragai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase), 1760 - 1849
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
Untitled (sketch of "mushroom dome" by artist's daughter on sheet of legal paper, left page); Untitled (bleed-through, right page), 1928 - 2014