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Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942

Author

Nash, Steven A.; Kline, Katy; Kotik, Charlotta; Wood, Emese

Publisher

Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

New York, New York

Type

Collection catalogue

Year

1979

This catalogue of highlights from the collection created prior to 1942 featured notes on the works by Steven A. Nash with contributions by Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik, and Emese Wood, and a foreword by Robert T. Buck, Jr.

Related Artworks

This life-sized, muscular nude is captured as if in mid-stride, with his right hand raised to clasp his scalp and his left hand raised in a fist. His mouth is open, and his facial features contorted in what appears to be pain or anger. — Auguste Rodin

L'Age d'Airain (Age of Bronze) , 1875-1876 (cast executed 1911)

The Convalescent — Antonio Mancini

The Convalescent
, not dated

Portrait of Mrs. Mabel Dodge and Son — Jacques-Emile Blanche

Portrait of Mrs. Mabel Dodge and Son
, 1911

Scène de rivière (River Scene) — Charles François Daubigny

Scène de rivière (River Scene) , ca. 1860-1870

Berthe Morisot

Femme cousant (Woman Sewing) , ca. 1879

Portrait of a Man — William Merritt Chase

Portrait of a Man , 1873-1876

Héraklès archer — Emile Antoine Bourdelle

Héraklès archer , 1909 (casting date unknown)

L'Hymne Interieur — Emile Antoine Bourdelle

L'Hymne Interieur , not dated

Church at Old Lyme, Connecticut — Childe Hassam

Church at Old Lyme, Connecticut , 1905

Le Marteleur (The Hammerman) — Constantin Meunier

Le Marteleur (The Hammerman) , 1885 (cast executed ca. 1886)

Study of a Head — Daniel Chester French

Study of a Head , 1907

This wintery landscape features a path that follows a still gray river as it curves from the bottom right corner of the canvas and recede into the distance under an overcast sky. On the right side of the painting, smokestacks on a distant are reflected in the water. Four small figures summarily rendered in dark tones walk on the path, with one appearing to move toward the viewer. To the left is a patch of trees and grass that peeks out beneath melting snow. — Claude Monet

Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter) , 1875-1876

The Wedding — Gari Melchers

The Wedding , ca. 1892

Le marché aux chevaux (The Horse Fair) — Rosa Bonheur

Le marché aux chevaux (The Horse Fair) , ca. 1852

This horizontally oriented painting captures a snowy street scene. A dirt road, lined on both sides by primarily two-story houses, curves downhill from the bottom left corner of the canvas, leading toward a view of snow-covered mountains in the distance. A man wearing a hat and jacket slouches in the entrance to a glass-fronted store on the left edge of the image. In the right foreground, two large brown poles stretch toward the sky. — Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Winter, East Liverpool , 1927

Senegalese Woman — Jacob Epstein

Senegalese Woman , 1921

Susannah — Frank Dobson

Susannah , ca. 1923 (cast executed ca. 1924)

Torso — Aristide Maillol

Torso , before 1925

Head of a Woman — Thomas Couture

Head of a Woman , 1876

Young Franklin at the Press — Enoch Wood Perry

Young Franklin at the Press , 1876

Bringing Home the Cattle - Coast of Florida — Thomas Moran

Bringing Home the Cattle - Coast of Florida , 1879

This painting features at center a young man in a blue and red military uniform and carrying a rifle mounted on a chestnut brown horse. They ride through a winter landscape. Light snow covers the ground, perforated by small clumps of brown and dried-looking grasses. A cluster of tall pine trees fills the upper-left corner and a few additional trees frame the right edge of the canvas. The small patch of sky visible behind the rider is tinged the light pink of dawn. — Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille

The Dragoon , 1896

Neglected Lands — John Francis Murphy

Neglected Lands
, ca. 1900

Croquet Players — Charles Edouard Boutibonne

Croquet Players , 1871

Music and Literature — William Michael Harnett

Music and Literature , 1878

Die Knieende (Kneeling Woman) — Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Die Knieende (Kneeling Woman) , 1911

Several figures are gathered on a lush green field flanked by tall trees. Toward the left edge of the painting, a woman in a brown dress and a man in a brown suit face each other, as if in conversation. Another man in a black suit and top hat watches three women in white, blue, and red Victorian-style dresses playing croquet in the foreground. The woman in white appears poised to hit a blue ball through a wicket with her mallet. — Winslow Homer

Croquet Players , 1865

Katharine Cornell — Anna Glenny Dunbar

Katharine Cornell , 1930

La toilette — Pablo Picasso

La toilette , 1906

La ferme à Montfoucault (Farm at Montfoucault) — Camille Pissarro

La ferme à Montfoucault (Farm at Montfoucault) , 1874

La Nuit (Night) — Aristide Maillol

La Nuit (Night) , 1902-1909 (cast executed 1939)

Destiny — William Ehrich

Destiny , 1934

A landscape of recently cleared fields and grass covered hills beneath a sunny blue sky filled with white clouds fills this horizontally oriented painting. In the bottom left foreground, a woman holding a basket in her right hand watches as a man thrusts a shovel into the ground. A horse-drawn wagon approaches in the distance, and a child sits in the field toward the right edge of the painting. The entire scene is rendered in individual dots of paint in deep blue, violet, green, orange, and other shades. — Camille Pissarro

Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (Peasants in the Fields, Éragny) , 1890

This painting features a beige-color room full of fantastical creatures performing music and acrobatics, and floating through the air. These colorful beings are shaped like musical instruments, insects, animals, and mermaids and interact with instruments, musical notes, a ladder, dice, unicycle, a shooting star, and other objects. A window at top right looks out onto a landscape, and beneath it is a table with a fish, a globe, and papers. — Joan Miró

Carnaval d'Arlequin (Carnival of Harlequin) , 1924-1925

A young white-skinned woman, nude to the waist, sits on the grassy bank of a body of water in the center of this vertically oriented painting. A blue cloth or portion of a garment with white edges loosely covers her lap. She grasps her left ankle, which rests on her right knee, with both hands, and she gazes toward the bottom left of the canvas. The paint was applied quickly and loosely with visible brushstrokes. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) , ca. 1878-1879

Plate — unknown Peruvian

Plate
, ca. 100-300

Bowl — unknown Peruvian

Bowl , 300-400

Bords de l'Eure, Normandie (Banks of the Eure, Normandy) — Gustave Loiseau

Bords de l'Eure, Normandie (Banks of the Eure, Normandy) , 1901

Ritual Vessel, Type Chueh — unknown Chinese

Ritual Vessel, Type Chueh
, ca. 1300-1001 BCE

A young boy wearing a brimmed hat, green jacket, long black pants, and brown leather boots sits on a wooden crate at the side of a red brick road. He holds an apple in his left hand, and there are a couple newspapers at his feet. The brick wall behind the boy is covered in layers of printed posters. — Thomas Le Clear

Buffalo Newsboy , 1853

A woman wearing a low-cut pink evening dress and elbow-length gloves sits at the center of this horizontally oriented painting. What appears to be a multicolored furred or feathered garment rests on the back of her red chair. Her face, oriented left, is largely obscured by shadow. She clutches a folded fan in her right hand and adjusts the top of her left hand. The entire scene is loosely painted in a palette dominated by dark greens and yellows. — Edgar Degas

Portrait de Mlle Rose Caron (Portrait of Rose Caron) , ca. 1892

Seated Musician — unknown Six Dynasties Chinese

Seated Musician , ca. 500-550

Seated Musician — unknown Six Dynasties Chinese

Seated Musician , ca. 500-550

Portrait of Mrs. John J. Albright and Children — George de Forest Brush

Portrait of Mrs. John J. Albright and Children
, 1902

Fishing Scene — Nelson Augustus Moore

Fishing Scene
, 1870

Étude de nu pour la danseuse habillée (Study in the Nude for the Dressed Ballet Dancer) — Edgar Degas

Étude de nu pour la danseuse habillée (Study in the Nude for the Dressed Ballet Dancer) , 1879-1880 (cast executed 1919-1921 from original wax)

Portrait of Colonel William Taylor — Ralph Earl

Portrait of Colonel William Taylor , 1790

La Seine à Rouen (The Seine at Rouen) — Eugène Boudin

La Seine à Rouen (The Seine at Rouen) , 1895

Gordon Washburn — Anna Glenny Dunbar

Gordon Washburn , 1936

A ruddy-complexioned, jowly man wearing a powdered white wig and a red fur-lined coat with elaborate gold fastenings over gold vest embroidered with small floral patterns sits at the center of this vertically oriented portrait. He sits at a table, staring straight out at the viewer and turning the rest of his body away slightly. He rests his left elbow on the table, which is littered with books, architectural drawings, a compass, and a ruler. — Jacques-Louis David

Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons , 1782

The Lady's Last Stake — William Hogarth

The Lady's Last Stake , 1759

Cupid as Link Boy — Joshua Reynolds

Cupid as Link Boy , 1774

Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) — Paul Gauguin

Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) , 1889

Yvonne — Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Yvonne , 1908

Genesee Falls, Rochester — Thomas Chambers

Genesee Falls, Rochester
, ca. 1830-1869

Woman's Head — Pablo Picasso

Woman's Head , 1909

Abstract shapes resembling the outline of two buildings or sculptural forms fill this vertically oriented, shallow relief sculpture. Various rectangles curve around a central oval, which is surrounded by a solid red rectangle in the upper portion of the work. More curved rectangles with white, black, and orange sections, hover above a leaning triangular base in the lower portion of the work. — John Ferren

Composition , 1936

No image available,
but we're working on it

unknown Italian

formerly attributed to Giovanni Paolo Panini

Festival Outside the Church of Montenero with a View of Leghorn in the Distance

, ca. 1775

Four barefoot figures populate this scene of a Moroccan street at midday. On the left, a woman and a young adult stand outside a darkened doorway; an older man sleeps hidden in its shadows. The woman wears a knee-length garment belted with a decorative sash and a scarf covers her hair. The young adult wears a knee-length tunic and a voluminous shawl. A white robed man holding a knife sits on the other side of the doorway. — Eugène Delacroix

Street in Meknes , 1832

Die Wölfe (Balkankrieg) [The Wolves (Balkan War)] — Franz Marc

Die Wölfe (Balkankrieg) [The Wolves (Balkan War)] , 1913

Portrait of a Negro — Théodore Géricault

Portrait of a Negro , ca. 1822-1823

Gallic Cock — Frances Kent Lamont

Gallic Cock , 1939 (cast executed 1947)

The Shipwreck — Jean Henry d' Arles

The Shipwreck
, 1769

Ratapoil — Honoré Daumier

Ratapoil
, ca. 1850-1851

Fleurs des champs — Pierre Bonnard

Fleurs des champs , ca. 1915-1920

Souvenir of Notre Dame — Henri Matisse

Souvenir of Notre Dame , ca. 1902

Study for "Cowboys in the Badlands" — Thomas Eakins

Study for "Cowboys in the Badlands" , ca. 1887

Seated Woman with Legs Outstretched — unknown Nayarit

Seated Woman with Legs Outstretched , ca. 200 BCE-200 CE

Une salle d'attente (The Waiting Room) — Honoré Daumier

Une salle d'attente (The Waiting Room) , 1850-1853

Degas à la redingote noire (Self-Portrait) — Edgar Degas

Degas à la redingote noire (Self-Portrait) , ca. 1854-1855

Softly delineated shapes in a rainbow of vivid colors cover the surface of this painting. Near the top right corner, a series of boxes reminiscent of the contours of an early biplane float above a tower of intersecting green lines that extends to the bottom of the canvas. At left, hazy segments of blue, green, red, yellow, and orange intersect with and blend into one another. — Robert Delaunay

Soleil, tour, aéroplane (Sun, Tower, Airplane) , 1913

Marie Ressort — Roger de La Fresnaye

Marie Ressort , ca. 1912-1913

Diverse abstract patterns layer atop one another and a black background to fill much of this painting. Slightly below the center of the painting is a circle with a red center with white and black rings. Above this curves a red arc with two parallel, irregular white lines that spans nearly the entire width of the painting. Behind these elements are smaller sections of checked and ribbon-like patterns. — Marsden Hartley

Painting No. 46 , 1914-1915

Abstract geometric shapes largely in dappled shades of gray and brown coalesce to form patrons seated around a café table at left and the dancer who appears to be moving toward the right edge of the canvas. The dancer and the seated patron closest to the foreground are the most clearly defined. The dancer wears a long dress with a striking cerulean skirt and carries a bouquet of flowers in her right hand; the patron’s dress is trimmed with delicate passages of lace at the sleeves and around the bust. — Jean Metzinger

Danseuse au café (Dancer in a Café) , 1912

L'Homme au hamac (Man in a Hammock) — Albert Gleizes

L'Homme au hamac (Man in a Hammock) , 1913

A black woman in a blue hat and coat of matching color over a brown skirt and white, high-necked blouse stands at the center of this painting. She appears to be standing up from a red-back chair, her left arm extended against an almost neon green form in the background. The bottom portion of a painting depicting nude figures in a landscape is visible behind her head, and the corner of a table covered with a light blue tablecloth fills the bottom right corner of the canvas. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Frauenbildnis (Portrait of a Woman) , 1911

Mlle Fiocre dans le ballet "La Source" (Mademoiselle Fiocre in the ballet "La Source") — Edgar Degas

Mlle Fiocre dans le ballet "La Source" (Mademoiselle Fiocre in the ballet "La Source") , 1866-1868

Nymph and Satyr — Théodore Géricault

Nymph and Satyr
, ca. 1817-1820

La Rigole à St. Privé, Yonne (Rivulet at St. Privé, Yonne) — Henri-Joseph Harpignies

La Rigole à St. Privé, Yonne (Rivulet at St. Privé, Yonne) , 1902

The thin sliver of beach in the bottom left corner of this horizontally oriented canvas features a loosely painted scene of multiple Caucasian figures dressed for a summer’s outing. Two thin wooden piers extend horizontally into the ocean, filling most of bottom two-thirds of the canvas. A couple sailboats dot the horizon and a third boat is pulling up to the pier in the foreground. The sky filling the upper third of the canvas is light blue with lilac tinged clouds reflecting in the water below. — William James Glackens

Jetties at Bellport , 1912

Similarly short, distinct brushstrokes primarily in cool shades of green and blue coalesce into a sketchily painted landscape; portions of the canvas are visible. A light green field fills much of the bottom third of the canvas, and the sky above, while largely blue, also includes some green areas. A slender, leafless tree rises from the left edge of the field and curves at its top toward the right and downward. A small, light brown house sits on the right edge of the field. — Paul Cézanne

Le matin en Provence (Morning in Provence) , ca. 1900-1906

Le Village dans la forêt (The Village in the Forest) — Fernand Léger

Le Village dans la forêt (The Village in the Forest) , 1914

Still Life with Flowers — Arthur Beecher Carles

Still Life with Flowers , ca. 1933-1935

Cotton Pickers — Jackson Pollock

Cotton Pickers , ca. 1935

Cubist Head — Oleksandr Bohomazov

Cubist Head
, 1914-1915

Four dark gray spheres of varying sizes, grouped tightly together, float in a dark gray sky above the black silhouettes of mountains. White circular highlights on the top halves of three of the spheres suggest a distant light source. The spheres appear to be made of metal, and the smooth surface of each sphere is only interrupted by a deep black cut along its equator. — René Magritte

La Voix des airs (The Voice of Space) , 1928

Head — unknown Mexican

Head , ca. 300 BCE-300 CE

Effigy Vessel in the Form of Back-to- Back Dogs — unknown Mexican

Effigy Vessel in the Form of Back-to- Back Dogs , ca. 200-900

Man Carrying a Bowl on Shoulder — unknown Mexican

Man Carrying a Bowl on Shoulder , ca. 200-900

Bowl — unknown Mexican

Bowl , ca. 700-1000

No image available,
but we're working on it

unknown Mexican

Head of a Monkey , after 900

Bust of A. Conger Goodyear — Isamu Noguchi

Bust of A. Conger Goodyear , 1933

Portrait du Professeur Gosset — Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Portrait du Professeur Gosset , 1918 (enlarged cast executed 1957)

Sagoyewatha (known as "Red Jacket") — Charles Bird King

Sagoyewatha (known as "Red Jacket")
, ca. 1828

Katharine Cornell — Anna Glenny Dunbar

Katharine Cornell , 1930

Torso — Aristide Maillol

Torso , not dated

Portrait of Three Knox Children — Harrington Mann

Portrait of Three Knox Children , 1909

Energetic plumes of bright yellow and orange extending from a horizon near the bottom fill much of this canvas. Smaller areas of dark-blue sky are visible in the top left and right corners. A large crowd of tiny, barely distinguishable figures mills about in the heavily shadowed foreground at the very bottom margin of the canvas. — James Ensor

Le feu d'artifice (Fireworks) , 1887

Lion in the Desert — Jean-Léon Gérôme

Lion in the Desert , ca. 1885

Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? — Marcel Duchamp

Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? , 1921 (re-created 1964)

Harlequin — Julio González

Harlequin , ca. 1930 (cast executed posthumously from original welded iron)

Rounded biomorphic forms fill the majority of this painting. Those at upper left are blue, those in the bottom half are cream, those at the base and upper right are turquoise, and a sliver of lilac is wedged between dark blue and turquoise forms at top center. Two black diagonal stripes overlap in the center of the picture’s upper half and are held within a pistil-like, white form tinged rose that rises diagonally from the lower right. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Black Spot No. 3 , 1919

Multicolored geometric forms overlap against the solid black background of this vertically oriented abstract painting. A dark gray half circle centers the composition. A thin maroon rectangle cuts diagonally across its middle, and a smaller, blue half-circle sits flush on the right end of the rectangle. L shapes in yellow and light gray intersect the gray half-circle on steeper diagonals while pink and gray vertical stripes come in from the upper left, meeting a red half-circle at center bottom. — László Moholy-Nagy

D IV , 1922

Traits, plans, profondeur (Lines, Planes, Depth) — František Kupka

Traits, plans, profondeur (Lines, Planes, Depth) , ca. 1920-1922

The Idiot — Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

The Idiot , ca. 1912 (cast executed ca. 1930)

Oval Composition — Vasilij Dmitrovič Ermilov

Oval Composition
, ca. 1923

Etude pour "Le Pont de l'Europe" (Study for "Le Pont de l'Europe") — Gustave Caillebotte

Étude pour "Le Pont de l'Europe" (Study for "Le Pont de l'Europe") , 1876

Portrait of Hermine David — Jules Pascin

Portrait of Hermine David , ca. 1914-1919

Schmelling — Ernesto De Fiori

Schmelling
, ca. 1928-1929

Kleine Sinnende (Pensive Woman) — Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Kleine Sinnende (Pensive Woman)
, 1911

Armless Nude — Aristide Maillol

Armless Nude , before 1925

Torso (Fragment from the "Homage a Cezanne") — Aristide Maillol

Torso (Fragment from the "Homage a Cezanne") , ca. 1912-1920

Young Girl Bathing — Aristide Maillol

Young Girl Bathing , ca. 1900

Indian — Paul Manship

Indian , 1914

Nature morte a la sculpture (Still Life with Sculpture) — Charles Dufresne

Nature morte a la sculpture (Still Life with Sculpture)
, ca. 1925

Fish Heads — Jean Fautrier

Fish Heads , ca. 1927

The Pilot — Marcel Gromaire

The Pilot
, 1928

Relief of a Nereid — unknown Coptic Egyptian

Relief of a Nereid , ca. 300-499

Figure triste (Sad Visage) — Francis Picabia

Figure triste (Sad Visage) , 1912

Boto — Maria Martins

Boto
, ca. 1942

Glass, Vase and Fruits — Pablo Picasso

Glass, Vase and Fruits , 1937

Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash) — Giacomo Balla

Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash) , 1912

Époque des forêts (Age of Forests) — Max Ernst

Époque des forêts (Age of Forests) , 1926

Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) — Paul Gauguin

Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching) , 1892

A vibrantly colored landscape with several slim-trunked trees and mountains in the background fills this canvas. The sky is a light yellow while the ground is a slightly darker, sandy hue. The artist used cool blues with patches of crimson to depict the mountains, and warm reds, yellows, and oranges to emphasize tall, thin tree trunks in the foreground. Shadows fall diagonally from the trees toward the right hand corner of the painting where the artist’s small, blue signature rests. — André Derain

Les arbres (The Trees) , ca. 1906

Eta d'oro — Medardo Rosso

Eta d'oro , 1886

This portrait features a Caucasian woman, nude to the waist, with shoulder-length brown hair and dark painted lips seen in three quarter view sitting on a chair. Her right arm rests on the top of the chair and is bent to bring her cigarette close to her head. A green-covered magazine is spread face-down across her lap. The pale figure is set in contrast with solid a rich salmon colored background. — Yasuo Kuniyoshi

I Think So , 1938

A pale-skinned young woman standing with her hands folded in front of her fills this tall rectangular canvas. Behind her, a dark interior space with hexagonal terra cotta tiles on the floor is visible. The woman’s brown hair is tied back, and she has an elongated neck and rosy cheeks. Her eyes are featureless blue-gray ovals. She is wearing black shoes and a black dress with a white collar. The artist’s signature, Modigliani, floats in the top-right corner of the canvas, above the woman’s head. — Amedeo Modigliani

La Jeune bonne (The Servant Girl) , ca. 1918

Two women look out toward the viewer from this brightly colored painting. The artist depicted these women using simple, flat shapes with dark outlines. The woman in a caramel colored dress at left sits on a floor cushion next to sheet music. The woman at right wears a marine blue jumpsuit with yellow triangles at the bottom of the legs. She has one foot on the floor and one on the couch on which she sits while playing guitar. A red tile floor contrasts with a black wall decorated with large green leaves. — Henri Matisse

La Musique , 1939

No image available,
but we're working on it

Julian Edwin Levi

Margaret Boni Playing the Recorder

, 1940

Woman in the Dunes — George Grosz

Woman in the Dunes
, 1940

An assortment of geometric shapes resembling factories and homes and largely painted in neutral shades punctuated by pops of red, blue, and yellow fill this rectangular canvas in haphazard stacks. A sequence of semicircular shapes divides the canvas in half vertically, trailing off toward the upper-right corner. Painted in shades of gray with dark edges, this sequence of shapes appears to be the smoke of the work’s title. — Fernand Léger

La fumée (Smoke) , 1912

Jean — George Wesley Bellows

Jean , ca. 1920

Portrait of the Poet René Crevel — Christian Bérard

Portrait of the Poet René Crevel
, 1925

St. Francis — Alfeo Faggi

St. Francis
, 1915 (cast executed 1921)

Tulips and Buttercups — André Bauchant

Tulips and Buttercups , 1928

White Barn — Ralston Crawford

White Barn
, 1936

Marc Chagall

La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life) , 1925

London, Large Thames View I — Oskar Kokoschka

London, Large Thames View I , 1926

Glass, Grapes and Pear — Georges Braque

Glass, Grapes and Pear , 1929

Carcass of Beef — Chaïm Soutine

Carcass of Beef , ca. 1925

In this tall, narrow portrait, painted with loose, energetic brush strokes, a young man wearing a deep red uniform with matching cap stands in front of a dark burgundy, gray, green, and blue background. A row of gold buttons extends down the front of the boy’s jacket. His right hand is by his side, palm facing out, and his left hand is clenched in front of his waist. The figure’s dark eyes, hair, and moustache stand out again his pale skin. — Chaïm Soutine

Page Boy at Maxim's , ca. 1927

Portrait of Colonel Charles Clifton — Eugene Edward Speicher

Portrait of Colonel Charles Clifton
, 1923

No image available,
but we're working on it

unknown British

Standing Patriarch

, ca. 1450-1499

Self Portrait with Fedora Hat — Vincent Canadé

Self Portrait with Fedora Hat , ca. 1922

Head of a Girl — André Derain

Head of a Girl
, ca. 1919-1920

Still Life on a Mantelpiece — Georges Braque

Still Life on a Mantelpiece , ca. 1923

Harlequin (Project for a Monument) — Pablo Picasso

Harlequin (Project for a Monument) , 1935

Swimming Off West Washington Market — Reginald Marsh

Swimming Off West Washington Market , 1940

Standing Figure — Jean Hélion

Standing Figure , 1935

The Anguish of Departure — Giorgio de Chirico

The Anguish of Departure , 1913-1914

The Beach — Maurice Brazil Prendergast

The Beach , ca. 1913-1918

Conjockety — Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

Conjockety
, 1850

Étude pour "Le Chahut" (Study for "Le Chahut") — Georges Seurat

Étude pour "Le Chahut" (Study for "Le Chahut") , 1889

Color-Construction — Georgy Stenberg

Color-Construction , 1919

1941-2-C — Clyfford Still

1941-2-C , 1941-1942

Abstract Figure — John Bradley Storrs

Abstract Figure , ca. 1932

Portrait of Gabriel Manigault — Gilbert Stuart

Portrait of Gabriel Manigault , 1794

Verschobene Flächen (Shifted Planes) — Kurt Schwitters

Verschobene Flächen (Shifted Planes) , ca. 1925

Buffalo Harbor from the Foot of Porter Avenue — Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

Buffalo Harbor from the Foot of Porter Avenue , 1871

Portrait of Madame Rosenthal — attributed to Adolphe Monticelli

Portrait of Madame Rosenthal
, ca. 1870-1899

Fragment 2 for Composition VII — Vassily Kandinsky

Fragment 2 for Composition VII , 1913

Le Canigou — Juan Gris

Le Canigou , 1921

Flowers in a Vase — Henri Rousseau

Flowers in a Vase , 1909

Femme agenouillée (Kneeling Woman) — Henri Laurens

Femme agenouillée (Kneeling Woman)
, 1931

This landscape features a rocky mountain ledge dramatically lit by a large yellow four-pointed starburst that dominates the dark blue sky in the upper right corner of the painting. The rocky outcropping is painted with wavy lines in light and dark browns, reds, yellows, and grays. Scattered throughout the scene are thin-trunked pine trees with spiky foliage. A lone bird hovers above the rocky landscape. A stretch of barren land and a river are visible in the far distance in the bottom right corner. — Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Sun and Rocks , 1918-1950

Portrait of Miriam Patel ("Anita") — Jacob Epstein

Portrait of Miriam Patel ("Anita") , 1926

Elsa — Jacob Epstein

Elsa , 1935

Monsieur X — Georges Rouault

Monsieur X , 1911

Portrait of John Joseph Albright — Edmund Charles Tarbell

Portrait of John Joseph Albright , 1914

Farmer's Family — Nicholas Vasilieff

Farmer's Family , 1932

Jacques Villon

Figure , 1921

Composition — Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart

Composition
, 1940

Corpus of a Crucifix — possibly by unknown Mosan

Corpus of a Crucifix
, ca. 1100-1199

Two small roughly defined figures stand in an opening framed by a low wall and several stark houses. The houses, wall, ground, and sky are painted in a limited range of grayish creams and browns. Muted pops of color come in the form of pinkish roofs on several of the homes and green shutters on the home closest to the foreground, which is shown in three-quarter view and fills much of the left side of the painting. — Maurice Utrillo

Maisons à l'Île d'Ouessant, Bretagne (Houses on the Island of Ouessant, Brittany) , 1912

Place du Tertre — Maurice Utrillo

Place du Tertre
, ca. 1912

Composition with Circles and Semi-Circles — Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Composition with Circles and Semi-Circles , 1935

Mother — George Wesley Bellows

Mother , ca. 1920

A corpulent older man wearing a long white apron over his scarlet cardinal’s robes stands with a copper sauce pan in his left hand and a spoon held aloft in triumph in his right while, to the left, a younger man in chef’s hat and coat with an apron partially covering his bright blue, knee-length trousers looks at the spoon held in his right hand with skepticism. A large stove with a massive stone hood appears behind the cardinal, and a table laden with produce and meat appears behind the chef. — Jehan Georges Vibert

The Marvelous Sauce , ca. 1890

Two solemn-looking women, one carrying a basket of fruit on her head, stand in center of this colorful, horizontally oriented canvas. Behind them and to the left are three large containers filled with tropical fruit, some of which is also scattered on the ground. Behind them and to the right are two more women walking toward a long, low building in the background. A young boy in the right corner extends with his left hand a bunch of flowers toward the two central women. — Rufino Tamayo

Women of Tehuantepec , 1939

The Temple of the Mind — Albert Pinkham Ryder

The Temple of the Mind , before 1885

Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) — Henri Matisse

Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) , 1902

Beneath a looming mass of clouds that fills the top third of this painting, rocky cliffs extend into a calm sea painted in tones of grayish blue and green. A cluster of large gray rocks fills the foreground, and the remainder of the cliffs, dotted with additional clusters of boulders amid pale green grass, extend to fill much of the left half of the canvas. A thin line of white traces where the sea meets irregular, meandering path of the coast. — Jean-François Millet

Les falaises de Gréville (The Cliffs of Gréville) , 1871-1872

Nu couché I (Aurore) [Reclining Nude I (Aurora)] — Henri Matisse

Nu couché I (Aurore) [Reclining Nude I (Aurora)] , 1907 (cast executed ca. 1912)

Hommage à Mozart — Raoul Dufy

Hommage à Mozart , ca. 1915

Paysage aux environs de Castel Gandolfo — André Derain

Paysage aux environs de Castel Gandolfo
, 1921

Carved "Coco de Mer" — Paul Gauguin

Carved "Coco de Mer" , ca. 1901-1903

Woodland Brook — Ralph Albert Blakelock

Woodland Brook
, ca. 1880-1899

The Studio — Franklin Chenault Watkins

The Studio , 1940

No image available,
but we're working on it

attributed to Samuel Bell Waugh

Portrait of Colonel Ira Allen Blossom

, ca. 1835

Portrait of Mrs. Eunice Hubbard Blossom — attributed to Samuel Bell Waugh

Portrait of Mrs. Eunice Hubbard Blossom
, ca. 1835

Self-Portrait with Monkey — Frida Kahlo

Self-Portrait with Monkey , 1938

Study for "Sun and Rocks" — Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Study for "Sun and Rocks" , not dated

At center, a woman holds the hand of a small child, helping her up a set of stairs. The woman carries a bundle of laundry under her left arm, and both figures are dressed in what appears to be clothing typical of the mid-nineteenth century working class, although the dark, muted colors and sketchy brushwork make it difficult to make out detail. The brightly lit outlines of a city landscape cast the shadowy figures in strong relief. — Honoré Daumier

Une laveuse au Quai d'Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d'Anjou) , ca. 1860

Similarly short, distinct brushstrokes coalesce into the trees and shallow, walled pool that fill this landscape. A thin-trunked tree with light-dappled yellow-green foliage fills much of the left side of the canvas. Behind the tree, a low sandy colored wall contains a shallow, rectangular pool of water. Additional trees with darker green leaves line the right edge of the pool, extending to the upper edge of the canvas. — Paul Cézanne

Le bassin du Jas de Bouffan (The Pool at Jas de Bouffan) , ca. 1878-1879

La Porte St. Denis (The Gate of St. Denis) — Jean-François Raffaëlli

La Porte St. Denis (The Gate of St. Denis) , before 1909

Étude pour "La Grande Jatte" (Study for "La Grande Jatte") — Georges Seurat

Étude pour "La Grande Jatte" (Study for "La Grande Jatte") , 1884-1885

[no title] — Joaquín Torres-García

[no title] , 1938

Schiahorner mit Enzian (Schiahorner with Gentian) — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Schiahorner mit Enzian (Schiahorner with Gentian) , 1925

Abstraction — Kurt Schwitters

Abstraction , ca. 1917-1918

A woman in an elaborately ruffled pink dress with a large feathered fan enters an ornately decorated ballroom filled with party-goers on the arm of a much older gentleman. She looks left and outward beyond the viewer, while the attention of nearly all other male figures in the scene is directed at her. The textures of various surfaces and fabrics are painted with rich detail and texture, especially the pink dress ruffles gathered on a plush red ottoman at the bottom of the frame. — James Tissot

L'Ambitieuse (Political Woman) , 1883-1885

Mère et Enfant (Mother and Child) — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Mère et Enfant (Mother and Child) , 1910

Market Cross, Treboul — Christopher Wood

Market Cross, Treboul
, 1930

Walking Soldier — Alexander Archipenko

Walking Soldier , 1917 (enlarged cast executed ca. 1954)

Elinor, Jean and Anna — George Wesley Bellows

Elinor, Jean and Anna , 1920

Abstract shapes filled with solid areas of red, blue, white, and black paint float in a loosely linked cluster in the middle of this small beige canvas. Many of the shapes loosely resemble buildings, including a red structure with blue windows and tall black smokestacks at center, which sits beneath a white rectangle featuring the letters L and R in blue. A white shape with red edges at bottom resembles at boat while a patch of blue at bottom left may suggest water. — Stuart Davis

New York Waterfront , 1938

Lancaster — Charles Demuth

Lancaster , 1921

An Anniversary — Edwin Walter Dickinson

An Anniversary , 1920-1921

Geometric forms in different shades of red, green, and light brown shape this abstract landscape. A large green triangular shape stripped with seven black furrows, stretches from the middle of the top edge to the bottom-right corner and toward to the bottom-left corner. A dark red shape with a scalloped edge borders the right side of the triangle, and a light brown sphere patterned with five horizontal waves peeks out from behind the triangle’s left side. — Arthur Garfield Dove

Fields of Grain as Seen from Train , 1931

Self-Portrait — Horace Pippin

Self-Portrait , 1941

This horizontally oriented canvas features a loosely painted rural scene of several old stone houses and a dirt road running between them. Tall trees rise above behind the roofs. The grey and somber light that pervades the scene overall streams from a cloudy sky in the top quarter of the canvas. In the painting’s middle ground, a human figure wearing a blue shirt and light-colored trousers raises an axe above his head in order to chop a large branch at his feet. — Alfred Sisley

Rue de village à Marlotte (Village Street in Marlotte) , 1866

1937-8-A — Clyfford Still

1937-8-A , 1937-1938

Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) — Odilon Redon

Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) , ca. 1912-1914

Smiling Head — unknown Mexican

Smiling Head , 600-800

Church at Old Lyme — Childe Hassam

Church at Old Lyme , 1906

This portrait features a young Caucasian man shown from the waist up against a roughly defined background of blue, gray, and brown. The brushwork overall is quite loose. The man wears an oversized orange jacket open over a wrinkled light-green button-down shirt that gapes around his neck. The man’s face is very thin, with prominent cheekbones and sunken, gray-blue eyes. His shortly cropped brown hair is slightly receding above his right ear. — Walt Kuhn

The Man from Eden (George Fitzgerald) , 1930

Standing Woman — Gaston Lachaise

Standing Woman , 1912-1918 (cast executed 1927)

City Construction — John Marin

City Construction , 1932

Symphony Orchestra — Man Ray

Symphony Orchestra , 1916

Figure Study — Max Weber

Figure Study , 1911

Floating Figure — William Zorach

Floating Figure , 1922

No image available,
but we're working on it

Harold Baumbach

The Grey Barn

, ca. 1940

Winter — Emile Pierre Branchard

Winter , 1928

Mares' Tails — Alexander Brook

Mares' Tails , 1929

Mid-June — Charles Ephraim Burchfield

Mid-June , June 10, 1917-1944

This mostly smooth surface of this bronze sculpture features the simplified facial features and shoulders of an old woman. She appears to be wrapped in a fabric garment so that only her face, the top of her head, and a portion of her right hand are visible. Beneath a lined forehead, her eyes are half open and her lips are set in a deep, weary frown. — Remo Bufano

Bust of My Mother , ca. 1931 (cast executed 1941)

Monday in Greece — Nassos Daphnis

Monday in Greece
, 1938

The Jewess — Anna Glenny Dunbar

The Jewess , 1934-1935

Mother and Child — Alfeo Faggi

Mother and Child
, ca. 1915

Walt Whitman — Alfeo Faggi

Walt Whitman
, 1926

This painting features a young Asian woman, shown from the waist up, against a loosely painted background of warm yellow and tangerine orange. The paint has been applied with visible brushstrokes throughout. She meets the viewer’s gaze, and a hint of smile plays across her lips. Her long-sleeved lilac top features a standing collar, and light blue piping extends from the collar to the right edge of her torso and down to her waist. A couple loose strands of her jet-black hair frame her face. — Robert Henri

Tam Gan , 1914

Interior of Château du Bréau — Walter Gay

Interior of Château du Bréau
, ca. 1910

Flowers From Claire Spencer's Garden — Marsden Hartley

Flowers From Claire Spencer's Garden , 1939-1940

This painting includes a middle-aged Caucasian man, a young Caucasian boy, and a Caucasian woman—presumably a family of father, child and mother. The father and child meet the viewer’s gaze. The father is seated and extends his left hand around the waist of the standing boy, who rests his right hand on his father’s right hand. The boy’s left arm rests on a table, on which sits a large empty metal bowl and a dead silvery fish. Behind the table sits the mother, who is focused on an object in her hands. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

The Family , 1911

Juniata River — John Kane

Juniata River
, ca. 1932

Doomsday — Karl Knaths

Doomsday , 1941

Horse and Tiger — Lawrence H. Lebduska

Horse and Tiger , 1932-1933

This painting features a young, Caucasian child, shown from the waist up, against a solid dark brown background. The brushwork overall is quite loose. The child’s cheeks are bright right, and she meets the viewer’s gaze. She wears a somewhat oversized, olive green coat with a bright red fringe at slightly below shoulder height. A hat of the same green color with additional bright red decorative elements covers her head. — George Benjamin Luks

The Trapper's Daughter , ca. 1920

Still Life with Bananas — Alfred Henry Maurer

Still Life with Bananas
, ca. 1928-1930

The Jury — Sigmund Joseph Menkes

The Jury
, not dated

Pelago-Tuscany — Willard LeRoy Metcalf

Pelago-Tuscany , 1913

Girl with Poodle — Elie Nadelman

Girl with Poodle , ca. 1931-1935

Portrait of Anna Marie Merkel — Isamu Noguchi

Portrait of Anna Marie Merkel , 1929

Head of a Young Girl — Isamu Noguchi

Head of a Young Girl , 1931

Pizarro — Charles Cary Rumsey

Pizarro , 1910 (cast executed late 1920s)

Bust of Dunoyer de Segonzac — Charles Despiau

Bust of Dunoyer de Segonzac
, 1943-1944

Young Girl Peeling Fruit — André Derain

Young Girl Peeling Fruit
, 1938-1939

Young Peasant Girl — Charles Despiau

Young Peasant Girl , 1909 (cast executed 1929)

Miss Antoinette Schulte — Charles Despiau

Miss Antoinette Schulte , 1934

Mrs. Jacob Epstein — Jacob Epstein

Mrs. Jacob Epstein , 1916

Head — Pablo Gargallo

Head
, ca. 1927-1929

Phryne — Édouard Joseph Goerg

Phryne
, ca. 1925

Petite femme assise — Julio González

Petite femme assise , ca. 1935-1936 (cast executed posthumously)

Head of Marie Laurencin — Hermann Haller

Head of Marie Laurencin , ca. 1920

Study of a Young Girl — Hermann Haller

Study of a Young Girl , 1918

Variation No. 10 — Alexei Jawlensky

Variation No. 10
, 1916

Woman and Child — Augustus John

Woman and Child , ca. 1911-1912

Woman with Cloak — Gwen John

Woman with Cloak
, ca. 1920-1924

Portrait of Dr. Gustav Stresemann — Augustus John

Portrait of Dr. Gustav Stresemann , 1925

Nude — Georg Kolbe

Nude
, 1916

Ascending Woman — Georg Kolbe

Ascending Woman , 1926

Nature Morte aux Trois Anses (Still Life with Three Handles) — Roger de La Fresnaye

Nature Morte aux Trois Anses (Still Life with Three Handles) , ca. 1912

Strollers in a Rocky Landscape — August Macke

Strollers in a Rocky Landscape , 1911

Reverie — Aristide Maillol

Reverie , ca. 1900

Torso and Head — Aristide Maillol

Torso and Head
, ca. 1910

Draped Standing Woman — Aristide Maillol

Draped Standing Woman , not dated

No image available,
but we're working on it

Louis Marcoussis

Quatre personnages autour d'une table (Four Persons Around a Table) , 1930

Innocentia — Ivan Meštrović

Innocentia , 1908

Woman at Prayer — Ivan Meštrović

Woman at Prayer , 1917

Nude — José Clemente Orozco

Nude , 1910

Mushrooms in a Bowl — Dominique Paul Peyronnet

Mushrooms in a Bowl
, ca. 1935

Village on the Marne — André Dunoyer de Segonzac

Village on the Marne , ca. 1924-1926

Tangerines — Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith

Tangerines
, ca. 1937-1939

Souvigny, La Grande Place — Maurice Utrillo

Souvigny, La Grande Place , ca. 1912

Head of a Man — Jacques Villon

Head of a Man , 1923

Warrior Attendant Figure — unknown Chinese

Warrior Attendant Figure , ca. 600-699

Dancer — unknown Chinese

Dancer , ca. 670-699

Small Vessel with Human and Animal Heads — unknown Peruvian

Small Vessel with Human and Animal Heads
, ca. 300-500

No image available,
but we're working on it

unknown Peruvian

Bowl

, 100-200

Collar Jar — unknown Peruvian

Collar Jar , ca. 300-400

Bowl with Four Proliferated Motifs — unknown Peruvian

Bowl with Four Proliferated Motifs , ca. 400-700

Theater Box — Everett Shinn

Theater Box , 1906

Rebecca — Isaac Soyer

Rebecca , 1940

Katharine Cornell as "Candida" — Eugene Edward Speicher

Katharine Cornell as "Candida" , 1925-1926

Head of Red Moore — Eugene Edward Speicher

Head of Red Moore , 1933

New England Houses — Niles Spencer

New England Houses , 1924

Bali Boy — Maurice Sterne

Bali Boy , 1913

Portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson — attributed to Frances Reynolds

Portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson , 1783

Landscape — Richard Wilson

Landscape
, after 1758

Lady Hamilton as "Serena" Reading a Newspaper — George Romney

Lady Hamilton as "Serena" Reading a Newspaper
, 1782-1786 or 1791

Portrait of Miss Rosamond Croker — Sir Thomas Lawrence

Portrait of Miss Rosamond Croker , 1827

Harlequin Scene — unknown

after Claude Gillot

Harlequin Scene
, ca. 1700-1799

Landscape with St. Philip Baptizing the Eunuch — unknown

after Claude Lorrain

Landscape with St. Philip Baptizing the Eunuch , 1678

Self Portrait of the Artist as a Deaf Man — Joshua Reynolds

Self Portrait of the Artist as a Deaf Man
, ca. 1775

Portrait of Lady Bentinck — George Romney

Portrait of Lady Bentinck
, ca. 1780-ca. 1799

Portrait of Miss Evans — Thomas Gainsborough

possibly by Gainsborough Dupont

Portrait of Miss Evans , 1786-1790

Small Standing Venus — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Small Standing Venus , 1913

La nourrice (Nurse) — Georges Seurat

La nourrice (Nurse) , 1884-1885

Femme retroussant sa chemise (Woman Lifting Her Chemise) — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Femme retroussant sa chemise (Woman Lifting Her Chemise) , 1901

Horse with Head Lowered — Edgar Degas

Horse with Head Lowered , ca. 1885 (cast executed 1919-1921)

Le Débardeur (The Dockhand) — Constantin Meunier

Le Débardeur (The Dockhand)
, 1885 (cast executed 1893)

Still Life — Antoine Vollon

Still Life
, ca. 1880

Thomas Eakins

Music , 1904

Portrait of Mrs. William Taylor — Ralph Earl

Portrait of Mrs. William Taylor , 1790

Portrait of a Young Man — Frank Duveneck

Portrait of a Young Man , ca. 1875

Catskill Creek, New York — James McDougal Hart

Catskill Creek, New York
, 1855

Pools by the Seaside — William Hart

Pools by the Seaside , 1861

A number of animals congregate in the bottom right foreground of this horizontally oriented painting. A bull stands next to a lion beneath a mass of trees that extend from the right edge of the image, and at their feet rests a wolf accompanied by two lambs. Small children interact with additional beasts at the lower edge of the painting. At the left side of the painting, the trees give way to a view of a body of water and verdant hills beneath a pink-tinged sky. — Edward Hicks

Peaceable Kingdom , ca. 1848

A standing woman approaches two seated women stringing beads over a shallow wooden bowl in the center right of this painting, which is set in a large, mostly empty room. An open doorway and windows at the back of the room provide limited light. At right, a bench is positioned against a wall. The two seated women wear dark dresses while their standing companion wears a white dress mostly covered with a dark shawl. — John Singer Sargent

Venetian Bead Stringers , 1880 or 1882

Portrait of Mrs. Gabriel Manigault — Gilbert Stuart

Portrait of Mrs. Gabriel Manigault , 1794

The Wild Cherry Tree — John Henry Twachtman

The Wild Cherry Tree , ca. 1900

The March of Silenus — William Holbrook Beard

The March of Silenus , ca. 1862

Laramie Peak — Albert Bierstadt

Laramie Peak , 1870

In the Studio — Edward Dufner

In the Studio , 1899

Landscape — George Inness, Sr.

Landscape
, ca. 1884-1886

Springtime — Ridgway Knight

Springtime , ca. 1890

Bust of Proserpine — Hiram Powers

Bust of Proserpine
, ca. 1839

Bust of Henry W. Rogers — William Henry Rinehart

Bust of Henry W. Rogers
, 1869

Self Portrait of the Artist in his Studio — Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

Self Portrait of the Artist in his Studio , 1871

A life-sized bronze abstract female nude holds her hands placed in front of her chest, as if cradling an invisible sphere. She appears to be perched on a tall chair, which supports and frames the figure from behind. The facial features on her flat, round head are angular. Her long, skinny body terminates in long legs bent at the knee. The figure’s feet rest on a narrow rectangular shaped stool at the sculpture’s base. — Alberto Giacometti

L'objet invisible (Mains tenant le vide) [Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void)] , 1934 (cast executed 1935)

Der Rächer (The Avenger) — Ernst Barlach

Der Rächer (The Avenger) , 1914 (cast executed after World War II)

Jeune fille à sa toilette (Girl Bathing) — Pierre Bonnard

Jeune fille à sa toilette (Girl Bathing) , 1900 or 1905

Unusual objects and geological forms fill this curious landscape. In the foreground, a desert-like expanse of yellow is bordered with dark shadows along its bottom and right edge. A series of chocolate brown mountains border its top edge. A portion of a woman’s head is nearly camouflaged against the right-most mountain. A piece of crumpled white fabric sits in the middle of the scene. Above it is a white spoon-like shape that appears to hold another mountain. — Salvador Dalí

The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image , 1938

Homme dans un Hamac — Albert Gleizes

Homme dans un Hamac , 1909

A Spaniard — Alexei Jawlensky

Spanier (Spaniard) , 1909

Grande femme assise (Large Seated Woman) — Henri Laurens

Grande femme assise (Large Seated Woman) , 1932

Sailor with Guitar — Jacques Lipchitz

Sailor with Guitar , 1914 (cast probably executed 1915)

White Relief — Ben Nicholson

White Relief , ca. 1937-1938

Pablo Picasso

Nude Figure , late spring 1910

Untitled Compositions — Lyubov' Popova

Untitled Compositions , ca. 1916

Souvenir d'Apollon Musagète — André Bauchant

Souvenir d'Apollon Musagète
, 1939

La Vierge d'Alsace — Emile Antoine Bourdelle

La Vierge d'Alsace , not dated (cast executed 1921)

L'Acrobate (Acrobat) — Marc Chagall

L'Acrobate (Acrobat) , 1914

Moine italien assis, lisant (Seated Italian Monk Reading) — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Moine italien assis, lisant (Seated Italian Monk Reading) , ca. 1827

Mademoiselle Pogany II — Constantin Brancusi

Mademoiselle Pogany II , 1920

Cubi XVI — David Smith

Cubi XVI , 1963

Construction from a Ring — Max Bill

Construction from a Ring , 1942-1963

The Cry — Isamu Noguchi

The Cry , 1962

Mask Head of a Man — unknown Mezcala

Mask Head of a Man , ca. 300 BCE-300 CE

Head — unknown Mexican

Head , ca. 300 BCE-300 CE

Tiger Head — unknown Mexican

Tiger Head , ca. 600-900

Three Musicians — probably by unknown Nayarit

Three Musicians , ca. 600-900

Standing Male Figure — unknown Colima

Standing Male Figure , ca. 200-600

Standing Female Figure — unknown Colima

Standing Female Figure , ca. 200 BCE-600 CE

Head — unknown Mexican

Head , 200-500

Head of a Man — unknown Mexican

Head of a Man , ca. 900

Head of Xipe Totec — unknown Mexican

Head of Xipe Totec , ca. 900-1521

Ivory Object — unknown Eskimo

Ivory Object
, ca. 1800-1899

This wooden sculpture could abstractly resemble a reclining female body. The dark brown wood is polished to reveal the wood grain and knots throughout the form. The figure’s legs seem to be gently bent, and she appears to be resting on her elbows, with her head propped upright. The artist left the torso as an empty space, allowing viewers to see through the sculpture. — Henry Moore

Reclining Figure , 1935-1936

Eve (après la faute) [Eve (After the Fall)] — Auguste Rodin

Eve (après la faute) [Eve (After the Fall)] , 1881 (cast executed 1913)

The dark mouth of a cave fills the center of this image. It is framed in the upper portion of the canvas by an arch of highly textured rocks in shades of light brown flecked with touches of cool red, pink, and blue. Dark water that becomes white foam as it flows over boulders at the bottom edge of the painting flows forth from the cave entrance. — Gustave Courbet

La source de la Loue (The Source of the Loue) , ca. 1864

Loose thick brushstrokes in a vibrant palette define a rural scene beneath a turquoise green sky. On the right is a tall sandy colored building with a yellow roof and brownish-red chimney. Steps leads from the structure toward the left-hand side of the image, where, two people stand in front of a purple fence. Beyond the fence and toward the upper left of the image are green fields dotted with small houses and blue mountains in the far distance. — Vincent van Gogh

La maison de La Crau (The Old Mill) , 1888

The Marina Piccola, Capri — Albert Bierstadt

The Marina Piccola, Capri , 1859

The Coming Storm — George Inness, Sr.

The Coming Storm , 1878

Sunlight streams into a living room from open floor to ceiling windows on the left-hand side of this painting. A man sits with his back to the window, facing a child who stands slightly to the right of the image’s center on the room’s red-and-white striped carpet. A table with a decorative urn, a patterned curtain behind the child, and the rest of the room’s furnishings are also largely in shades of white and red with blue accents. The entire scene is painted in rough, loose brushstrokes. — Edouard Vuillard

Le peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter) , 1903

Composition — Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Exster

Composition , ca. 1921

Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering) — Paul Klee

Wehgeweihtes Kind (Child Consecrated to Suffering) , 1935

A vibrant array of colorful geometric forms abut and overlap one another in the abstract kaleidoscopic patterning that covers this large, vertically oriented canvas. The colors range from red, blue, green, and orange, to pink, black, maroon, and white. A thin red painted line separates the bulk of the composition from a border of red, yellow, blue, and green rectangles alternating with white. — Morgan Russell

Synchromy in Orange: To Form , 1913-1914

Figure of a Servant — unknown Ancient Egyptian

Figure of a Servant
, ca. 2065-1785 BCE

Block Statue of a Man — unknown Ancient Egyptian

Block Statue of a Man , ca. 1085-525 BCE

The Unrepentant Thief — unknown

The Unrepentant Thief
, ca. 1600-1699

Untitled Compositions — Lyubov' Popova

Untitled Compositions , ca. 1921