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Seated Figure Jacques Lipchitz (Chaim Jacob Lipchitz) French and American born Lithuania, 1891–1973

Starting in 1900, young artists migrated to Paris's Montparnasse neighborhood, a hub of avant-garde activity. Jacques Lipchitz moved to there in 1909 and, becoming friends with Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, and others, began participating in the Cubist movement. The style's fractured geometric forms and favored subject matter (such as musicians and seated bathers) can be seen in both his bas-reliefs and sculptures in the round like <em>Seated Figure</em>.
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Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian 1696–1770)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s work epitomizes the brilliant exuberance of the Late Baroque style. Internationally renowned, Tiepolo was often commissioned to transform palaces and monasteries in Venice and elsewhere in Italy, as well as in Germany and Spain. This painting and three others at the Art Institute once graced the cabinet of mirrors, a richly decorated room in the Venetian palace of the powerful Cornaro family.
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The Drinkers Vincent van Gogh (Dutch 1853–1890)

While institutionalized in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh often copied works by artists he admired, which freed him from having to produce original compositions and allowed him to concentrate on interpretation. In his vibrant take on Honoré Daumier’s woodcarving "Physiology of Drinking," there is real pathos and a desperation in the earnest concentration with which the men drink, as if to quench a spiritual thirst.
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Filagree Pendant in the Form of a Frog or Toad Coclé Venado Beach Coclé province, Panama

Throughout the ancient Americas, the animal world was closely linked to social hierarchies and obligations. In this worldview, and in connection with the onset of the rainy season, frogs like the one depicted here were seen as summoners of water. This in turn was connected to the idea of a ruler’s ultimate responsibility to the community being to ensure the continuity of the agricultural cycle.
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Carnival in Arcueil Lyonel Feininger American worked in Germany, 1871–1956

This painting is set in the town of Arcueil, south of Paris, where Feininger spent several months a year from 1906 to 1912. Feininger's intense interest in architecture is apparent not only in the use of the town's majestic viaduct but also in the brilliantly colored houses. Against this dramatic backdrop, Feininger depicted a motley crew of characters, some of whom recall Feininger's earlier cartoons.
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Grey and Silver: Old Battersea Reach James McNeill Whistler (American 1834–1903)

James McNeill Whistler painted marine subjects throughout his career. In this painting, he focused on the industrial nature of London's Thames River—boats and barges, laboring men, and smoking chimneys. Despite the realism of the subject, Whistler unified the composition with deft brushwork and a subtle palette of brown and gray that anticipates his later interest in delicate tonal harmonies.
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Spring Georgia O'Keeffe (American 1887–1986)

In this work, Georgia O’Keeffe painted the small building that housed the darkroom of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, in Lake George, New York. The couple often took on the same subjects, and Stieglitz photographed this building the same year on a snowy day. O'Keeffe selected a springtime view, employing lush pastel colors for the flowering trees and simplifying the architecture to omit the house’s chimney, window, and horizontal siding.
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Woman with Dog (Frau mit Hund) Katharina Fritsch German born 1956

Katharina Fritsch makes meticulous reproductions of everyday objects, rendering them unfamiliar through extreme shifts in scale and bold color choices, both alluring and repellent. Indeed, saturated and nonreflective coats of color lend her sculptures a strong sense of otherworldliness. The marvelously pink <em>Woman with Dog</em> is clearly scaled up—enormously so—from a small figurine made of shells, as one might find in a seaside souvenir shop.
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Portrait of Joaneta Obrador Joan Miró Spanish 1893–1983

This painting belongs to a group of works by Miró that document his early efforts to grapple with developments in modern art (such as Fauvism and Cubism) and to forge his own direction. The vital and poetic intensity of his later works can be glimpsed here—for example, in the rhythms of the dress, barely held in check by the diamond grid in the background, or in the lyrical note introduced by the small flower on the front of the dress.
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Robot Alexandra Exter Born Białystok (formerly Russian Empire now Poland), 1882; died Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, 1949

This work is one of a series of marionettes Alexandra Exter made in 1926 for an unrealized film. Her inventive figurines draw on revolutionary artistic developments of the 20th century, including mechanization, nontraditional art materials, assemblage, collage, and abstraction. Exter used glass for the robot’s face to play on the faculty of sight, and she made an accordion of cardboard cubes for the chest to suggest the act of breathing.
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