Selected Works

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Kress Collection

Cleopatra by Giampietrino. ca. 1524

Madonna and Child by Andrea Sansovino. ca. 1500-1525.

Polyphemus and the Sea Nymphs by François Perrier. ca. 1620-1640

Judgement of Paris by Paolo Veronese. ca. 1548-1588

Portrait of a Lady by Bronzino, Agnolo (School of), ca. 1523-1572.

Contemporary Art

Sex Toys for Flowers by Jonathon Keats, 2017, mixed media

Fear of a Black Kirby by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson, printed 2014, inkjet print on paper

They No. 3 by Hai Bo, 1998-2000, gelatin silver prints on paper

Knot III (horse armor) by Stephen Althouse, 2011, pigment print

Dixie Square Mall by Brian Ulrich, 2008 (printed 2014), pigment ink print

Modern Art

Untitled by Louise Bourgeois, 1994, lift ground aquatint and drypoint with hand coloring in gouache.

Crescent Beach, St. Malo by Maurice Prendergast, 1907-1910, oil on panel

Target with Four Faces by Jasper Johns, 1968, lithograph on paper

The Aged King (Le Vieux Roi) by Pablo Picasso, 1959, Lithograph on paper

Imperial Monument by Salvador Dalí, 20th ce, lithograph on paper

Contemporary Photographs

Paloma Picasso, Saint-Tropez 1973 by Helmut Newton, 1973, gelatin silver print on paper

Chinese Summerhall (Bamboo or Bottles) by Robert Rauschenberg, 1983, color photograph

Untitled (Male Nude) by Robert Mapplethorpe, 20th ce, color photogravure and silkscreen on paper

A Couple Ways of Doing Something: Self-Portrait of Chuck Close by Chuck Close, 2003, digitially printed daguerreotype on paper

Snapshot from my Window, Berlin by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907, photogravure on paper

Historic Prints

Frontispiece From: The Roman Heroes by Hendrik Goltzius, 1586, engraving on paper

The Laughing Audience by William Hogarth, c. 1733, etching on paper

Bust of a Man Wearing a High Cap, Three-Quarters Right (The Artist’s Father?) by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630, etching on paper

The Flagellation of Christ (from The Large Woodcut Passion) by Albrecht Dürer, 1497, woodcut on paper

Disparate General by Francisco Goya, 1815-1824, etching and burnished aquatint on paper

Japanese Art

Untitled (scene from a Kabuki play) by Utagawa Kunisada. 19th ce, color woodcut on paper.

Ivory Study of a Monkey Trainer Netsuke. Artist Unknown. Ivory, 19th century.

Stag-antler Clam Dream Netsuke, artist unknown, Japanese, ca. 19th century

Tsuishu Four-Case Lacquer Inrō, artist unknown. Japanese.

Untitled (from the series “The Eight Heroes of Bakin’s Hakkenden”) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japanese, 1852, color woodcut on paper

African Art

Figure by the Bamana peoples. Africa (Mali), 20th century, wood.

Vessel by the Tutsi Peoples, Africa (Rwanda), 20th ce, clay

Vessel by the Songye Peoples, African (Tulela Village), early-mid 20th century, clay.

Beer Vessel by Zande peoples, African (The Democratic Republic of the Congo), early-mid 20th century, clay

D’mba by Baga peoples, African (Guinea-Bissau), 19th or early 20th century, wood

Ancient World

Ushabti. Egyptian. ca. 1279-1212 BCE.

Vase. Greek ca. 1100-900 BCE

Cylinder Seal of Heka-Nefer. Egyptian ca. 1550-1295 BCE.

Funerary Cone: Amunemhat the Scribe. Egyptian ca 1550-1295 BCE

Papyrus fragment. ca. 332-330 BCE

American Art

The Fence Mender by Thomas Hart Benton, 20th century, lithograph on paper

Tree Planting Group by Grant Wood, 1937. lithograph on paper

President Lincoln, General Grant and Tad Lincoln at a Railway Station by Winslow Homer, 1887. reproduction of a wood engraving on newsprint.

Old Putney Bridge by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 19th ce, etching on paper.

Cherokee pot, artist unknown, ca. 1500.