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This photograph depicts two figures seated at a picnic table outside a rural home.
Walker Evans (American (North American))
Robert Frank's House, Nova Scotia
1971
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr., in Honor of the Centennial of The Michigan Daily
1990/2.40
In this print we see a view of a city from the rooftop. In the foreground, two men standing on a balcony stare out at a city. A tall belltower emerges from the middle and leans to the right. In the background are smaller buildings and clouds fill the sky.
Leopoldo Méndez (Mexican)
Vista de Zaragoza
1953
Museum Purchase
1958/1.104
This color lithograph depicts an abstract human figure outlined with expressive black lines. The figure is white with areas of yellow, pink and red throughout the face and torso. The background of the work is blue with a burst of green in the center behing the figure.
Karel Appel (Dutch (culture or style))
Personnage
1940 – 1964
Museum Purchase
1964/1.122
Four people donning costumes and masks standing in the foreground of a large grassy field. 
Diane Arbus (American (North American))
Untitled (4)
1970 – 1971
Museum Purchase
1978/1.174

Arnold Eagle;David Robbins
One Third of a Nation
1936
Gift of Professor and Mrs. Gerome Kamrowski
1980/2.236

Bruce Davidson
Untitled (Child with a Doll Carriage), from "Welsh Miners"
1981
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Kenyon
1983/2.243.3
This color lithograph has an abstract composition of thin lines, all about the same width, in red, orange, green, and black. The print is numbered (l.l.) "79/250", titled (l.c.) "Children of Niobe", and signed and dated (l.r.) "S W Hayter 54" in pencil.
Stanley William Hayter
Children of Niobe
1954
Bequest of Jean Paul Slusser
1983/2.38

Rudolf Grossmann
(5) (Woman and Four Children Walking)
1882 – 1934
Museum Purchase
1948/1.356
A girl with long loose hair stands on a carpet in front of drapery. She is wearing a straw hat and cape over her dress; she is wearing flat shoes with rosettes on the top. She stands facing slightly to the left, although her eyes look at the viewer. Her left hand is not visible and her right hand holds the edge of her cape.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American (North American))
Annie Haden
1860
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.344
Standing male figure on a round base. The hands rest at the sides and there is a string of glass beads around the neck. The pupils of the eyes consist of metal and on each cheek is a 'V' shaped mark, while the hair is a tall oblong shape with vertical grooves. 
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
Male Twin Figure
1920 – 1930
Gift of Dr. & Mrs. J. Robert Willson.
1985/2.92
Standing human figure on a round base with hands at the sides. The abdomen is marked by triangular grooves and around the waist is a string of beads. There is also a string of beads around the neck, while the forehead has four vertical, incised grooves and the chin has three grooves. This figure also has closed eyes, not seen often on Yoruba twin figures. The hair is in the shape of a knob with vertical incised grooves. 
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
Twin Figure
1925 – 1940
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milford Golden
1986/2.115
A young woman in a black dress and white shawl holds a croquet mallet behind her back. She stands in the midground of the composition in a sunlit patch of grass strewn with three croquet In the foreground, three croquet balls mirror the wickets, and a white dog sits beneath a tree amongst a watering can and many small flower pots. Two more young women kneel and lounge in the grass in the background next to a small round pond with a fountain; an arcade of columns can be seen beyond the water.<br /> Signed and dated, in the plate, l.l.: "J.J. Tissot / 1878"
James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French (culture or style))
Le Croquet
1878
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2014/2.223
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