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Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Woman Combing Her Hair
Gift of Frederick J. Myerson
1985/1.130.2
This image shows a line drawing of a standing figure. The figure has a large comb coming from the top of their head drawn with fanned-out lines and little circles along the top and wears a dress with a triangular pattern. He/she has arrows pointing downwards for arms. There are a few horizontal lines directly below and behind the figure to indicate shadow. The letter "K" is found at the bottom of the page, within the print plate and handwritten signature of the artist appears next to it. Below that is a horizontal line with the print edition and date in the lower left and the title of the work in the lower right.
Paul Klee (Swiss)
Die Hexe mit dem Kamm
1922
Museum Purchase
1950/1.170

Fulani (Fulbe)
Blanket (khasa)
1915 – 1925
Gift of Prof. and Mrs. Horace M. Miner
1984/1.267.2
A nine-toothed comb topped with an anthropomorphic head. The neck and forehead of the 'face' have been decorated with rings of copper wire. The top of the comb is decorated with four rows of geometrical shapes in the front and two rows in the back. 
Comb
1895 – 1905
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1987/1.154

Lisa Anne Auerbach
What's All This Talk About Dying for Revolution (Sweater)
2005 – 2009
Museum Purchase
2009/2.164A
Red knit skirt, paired with the sweater 2009/2/163A. The words IF NOTHING CHANGES are outlined in white along the bottom border of the skirt.
Lisa Anne Auerbach
If Nothing Changes, It Changes Nothing (Skirt)
2007
Museum Purchase
2009/2.163B
A two-seat settee upholstered in green/gold wool textile, attached to a metal frame of square tubular steel.
Florence Knoll
Settee (Model 66)
1958 – 1964
Bequest of Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe
2012/1.294
The photograph shows a young girl lying on a mattress, her head at the bottom of the frame. Her spiral curls fan out around her head on the bedding in the lower foreground.
Rita Bernstein
Joanna, Age 16
2004
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH
2013/2.96
This mixed media collage consists of a long skein of yarn of varying colors attached at point A at the top of the print, creating a jumbled mass of yarn below and exiting at point C, also at the top of the canvas.
Buky Schwartz (Israeli)
Line A-C
1971
Gift in honor of Dr. E. Bryce and Harriet Alpern, by their children
2012/1.220
A photograph of a glamorous woman standing in her home, wearing only a fur coat, necklaces and heels. 
Helmut Newton (Australian)
Mercedes at Home
1975
Gift of Gerald and Selma Lotenberg
1984/1.277.1

Zulu
Wig
1900 – 1983
Gift of Meryl Pinsof-Platt
1983/1.98
This print shows a woman with black curly hair from the shoulders up; the woman, dressed in black, has a decorative flower in her hair on the left side. She covers her mouth and nose with both of her hands. Her right hand rests horizontally across her face with her palm facing outwards. Her left hand rests on top of her right hand, forming a T shape. 
Man Ray (American (North American))
Julie
1970
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.211
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