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A color print of one place-setting at a table with breakfast foods—2 eggs sunnyside up, 3 strips of bacon, toast, coffee, milk—and utensils. 
Wayne Thiebaud (American (North American))
Breakfast
1995
Gift of the Estate of Anne L. McGrew
2012/1.278
A poised, naturalistic male figure sits on a stool, holding an egg in his right hand, his left hand resting on his left knee. The head is round, almost egg-shaped with a high, sloping forehead rising from pronounced eyebrows. The eyes are almond-shaped, the nose long and slender, the mouth a small straignt line. The neck is long and ringed. The surface of the figure is smooth, carefully finished, golden brown in color, though worn or mottled in places. 
Osei Bonsu;Asante (Asante)
Display figure
1945 – 1955
Gift of Margaret H. and Albert J. Coudron
2001/2.33
egg-shaped wood vessel on legs, with petal-shaped opening on top
Alby Hall
Egg-shaped vessel
1992
Gift of Robert M. and Lillian Montalto Bohlen
2002/2.142
A geisha is shown strolling in the countryside, with her right hand over her forehead--as if looking into the distance--and a basket in her left hand. The backdrop is the rising sun-the give-away that this is a New Year’s print—seen over distant mountains. A poem lies on the left-hand side of the print.
Katsushika Hokusai
Sunrise at Susaki Point (New Year's Print)
1800 – 1820
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1954/1.472
In a large dark interior, and elderly couple standing in the shadows gestures towards a sleeping woman positioned in bright light in the foreground. Her clothing is in disarray, her breasts exposed, and garments used as makeshift drapery to screen her. At the lower left is a still life of an overturned basket with vegetables and eggs cascading onto the floor.
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
Le repos
1771
Museum Purchase
1993/2.15
Black and white etching shows a figure of a large hen in the central portion of the image with a small male figure on the middle right side of the image. Darkened tree branches extend from the left middle side to the upper right corner of the image.
Marc Chagall (Belorussian (culture or style))
The Hen with the Golden Eggs
Gift of Ruth W. and Clarence J. Boldt, Jr.
2008/2.415
Heavily worked and reworked pencil drawing on large square of grid paper. Form is an ovoid shape with longitudinal and lateral lines, thinner than it is tall, fit into a rectangular box that represents the block of stone to be carved. At the bottom right of the sketched image, Highstein has noted the dimensions (7’ x 7’ x 2’) x 7. Seven blocks of granite at 2’ x 2’ x 7’ were meant to be stacked and carved into the proposed shape.
Jene Highstein
Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty)
1987
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services
2008/2.232
This photograph depicts a downward view of a person’s lap and hands, which hold a bird nest with four small eggs inside.
Keith Carter (American (North American))
Bird Nest & Eggs
1992
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH
2013/2.109
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