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This is a black and white abstracted view of a ship with white sails. Most of the area around the ship is shaded, except for a beam of light that cuts diagonally across the print from top left to bottom right.
Lyonel Feininger (American (North American))
Off the Coast
1951
Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke
1953/1.28
Two tall, rectangular intersecting planes, one black and one white, create the appearance of a tall, minimal structure. Vertical lines of black and white add to the structure, which at its base projects slightly into a rough square shape that seems to delineate a kind of ground or base. The space around the structure is ochre.
László Moholy-Nagy (American (North American))
Construction (Konstruktion)
1923
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
1957/1.30
On a long white horizontal piece of paper are two outlines of geometric shapes weaving in and out of each other. 
Josef Albers (American (North American))
Articulation: Formulation
1972
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.336.55
On a long horizontal piece of white paper is a brown square on the right. Within the square are vertical wavy lines with alternating horizontal stripes. 
Josef Albers (American (North American))
Articulation: Formulation
1972
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.336.56
A tall stoneware ovoid bottle on a straight footring with a narrow, short, flaring neck and a direct rim. It has four loop handles connecting the neck to shoulder, incised with floral decoration, and the upper half of the body is covered in green, amber, and yellow polychrome glazes. 
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bottle
1271 – 1368
Museum purchase for the Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
1969/2.152
This color woodcut is printed on black paper. At the center, there is a white horse with a monkey sitting on its back. Next to the monkey, there is a bright yellow object. A white figure swings from an amorphous shape, outlined in black, coming from the upper right of the image. The background is blue with a green circle to the upper left. The print is titled (l.l.) "Monkey and Lamp", numbered (l.c.) "47/50", signed and dated (l.r.) "A Ryan '45", and dedicated (l.c.) "For Felix III Christmas 1945" in white ink.
Anne Ryan (American (North American))
Monkey and Lamp
1945
Gift of Gerome Kamrowski
1979/2.128
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
Olitski has covered nearly the entire canvas in the same grey acrylic using a spray gun.  On the right side of the canvas, there is a group of vertical lines in red, blue, and white. 
Jules Olitski (American (North American))
Absalom Passage—18
1973
Purchase made possible by the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Gosman
1973/2.82
Single plant with multiple flowers (purple, white and yellow). Flowers are slightly right of center with leaves and bulb located to left (lower).
Ikeda Zuigetsu
'Dendrobium Devonianum,' from 'A Record of an Orchid Collection'
1958
Gift of Mrs. Maurice Seevers
1983/1.371.67
On a long horizontal piece of white paper we see two light grey rectangles with geometric designs on them. On the left the design is a black outline, Escher-like pattern of rectangles, and on the right the same design is created with flat planes of black, grey and white. 
Josef Albers (American (North American))
Articulation: Formulation
1972
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.336.14
A long horizontal piece of white paper with a yellow square on the right, with other squares nested in shades of yellow and grey. 
Josef Albers (American (North American))
Articulation: Formulation
1972
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.336.21
People are appreciating the beauty of the cherry blossoms and some are having picnics under the trees. Below the highland where the cherry trees and the people are, the land leads to the fields and hills in the distance. The sky appears to be red along the edge of the hill, suggesting the time as early evening.
Utagawa Hiroshige II (Japanese (culture or style))
Edo Meisho: Gotenyama, Cherry-blossom Viewing
1833 – 1866
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.147
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