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Arch of Constantine
312-315 CE /Roman
marble, height: 37.73’ and width: 21.33’

Ashurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden, from the palace of Ashurbanipal
c. 647 BCE/Assyrian
alabaster, 21 "

Constantin Brancusi
Bird in Space
1928
Bronze, 54 x 8 1/2 x 6 1/2”

Dying Lioness from the palace of Ashurbanipal
c. 647 BCE/Assyrian
alabaster, 16"

Charles and Ray Eames
Lounge chair and ottoman
1946

Jacob Epstein
Portrait Bust of Paul Robeson
1928
bronze, 13.5 x 8.4"

Peter Good
Logo for the Special Olympics
1995

Damien Hirst
Mother and Child Divided
1993/Installation art/Conceptual art
steel, GRP composites, glass. Silicone sealants, cow, calf, formaldehyde solution

Damien Hirst
Away from the Flock
1994/ Installation art/Conceptual art
steel, glass, sheep, and formaldehyde solution
3’2” x 4’11”

Susumu Kinoshita
A Man Staring
1994
74 3/4” x 39 1/4”
and Photograph of the artist Susumu Kinoshita with his A Man Staring

Lucy Lewis
Water jar
1979
ceramic, height 6”

Limbourg Brothers (Paul, Herman, and Jean)
Page with February from Very Sumptuous Hours (Trés Riches Heures)
1413-1416
Colors and ink on parchment, 8 7/8 x 5 3/8”

Michelangelo
David
1501-1504/High Italian Renaissance
marble, 17’

Michelangelo
Atlas (Slave)
c. 1513-1520/High Italian Renaissance
marble, approx 10'

Michelangelo
Last Judgment
1535-1541/High Italian Renaissance
fresco, 44.95’ x 40.03’

Piet Mondrian
Composition in Blue, Yellow, and White
1936
oil on canvas, 17” x 13”

Piet Mondrian
Flowering Apple Tree
1912
oil on canvas, 31 x 42 2/8”

Piet Mondrian
The Gray Tree
1911
oil on canvas, 31 1/2” x 42 7/8”

Piet Mondrian
Tree: Study for the Gray Tree
1911
black crayon on paper, 23 x 34 1/8”

Bartolomé Murillo
The Vision of St. Bernard
c. 1650-1655
oil, 121.3 x 97.1"

Catherine Murphy
The Windsor
1999
oil on canvas, 48 x 63 “

Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, from the Temple of Athena Nike
c. 410 BCE/Classical Greek
marble, approx 3 1/2'

Chris Ofili
The Holy Virgin Mary
1996/Postmodern art
paper collage, oil, glitter, polyester resin, map pins, and elephant dung on linen; 96” x 72”, Destroyed in fire

Polykleitos
Doryphoros
c. 450-460 BCE
Roman marble copy after a bronze original, 6’ 11”

Raphael
The Small Cowper Madonna
c. 1505/High Italian Renaissance
oil on canvas, 23 3/8” x 17 3/8”

Diego Rivera
Flower Day
1925
Encaustic on canvas, 4’ 10” x 3’ 11 1/2”

Peter Paul Rubens
Landscape with Rainbow
c. 1635
oil on panel, 4’ 5 3/4” x 7’ 9 1/8”

Scene from a museum exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Includes

Duane Hanson
Museum Guard
1975
Polyester, fiberglass, oil, and vinyl; 69 x 21 x 13”
Claes Oldenburg
Soft Saxophone: Scale B
1992
canvas, wood, clothes line, Dacron, resin, and latex paint, 69 x 35 x 36 “
Wayne Thiebaud
Bikini
1964
oil on canvas, 72 x 35 7/8”
Tom Wesselmann
Still Life no. 24
1962
acrylic polymer on board, fabric curtain
48 x 59 7/8”

Richard Serra
Tilted Arc
1981
hot-rolled steel, height 12’, length 120’
Federal plaza, Foley Square, NY, Removed 1989

Stemcup
Ch’ing dynasty, Ch’ien Lung reign, 1736-1739
Porcelain, 3 7/8” high

Tokonoma alcove in a private home, Japan.

T ree of Jesse, west façade, Chartres Cathedral
1150-1170
stained glass

Jan van Eyck
VirginMary from the Ghent Altarpiece
1432/Early Northern Renaissance
oil on panel

Yoruba diviner’s bag