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    Selected Works

    For more detailed information about our collection please contact our Registrar

     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.

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