Collection 1940s–1970s

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Robin Coste-Lewis. Only love knows our subtle differences... 2019 810
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Lee Krasner. Untitled. 1949 448
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Jackson Pollock. One: Number 31. 1950 402
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Louise Nevelson. Sky Cathedral. 1958 407
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Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublimis. 1950-51 403
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Mark Rothko. No. 10. 1950 437
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Mark Rothko. No. 16 (Red, Brown, and Black). 1958 417
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Mira Schendel. Untitled from the series Written (Escritas). 1965 488
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Lee Krasner. Gaea. 1966 450
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Isamu Noguchi. Stone of Spiritual Understanding. 1962 433
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Grace Hartigan. Shinnecock Canal. 1957 445
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Henri Matisse. Maquette for Nuit de Noël. 1952 689
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Henri Matisse. The Swimming Pool, Maquette for ceramic (realized 1999 and 2005). Nice-Cimiez, Hôtel Régina, late summer 1952 400
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Atsuko Tanaka. Untitled. 1964 401
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Robert Rauschenberg. Bed. 1955 458
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Niki de Saint Phalle. Shooting Painting American Embassy. 1961 477
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Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954) 420
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Betye Saar. Phrenology Man Digs Sol y Luna. 1966 425
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Lee Bontecou. Untitled. 1961 423
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Ernest Cole. Untitled. c. 1960 492
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David Goldblatt. Young Man with a Pass, Soweto, South Africa. 1972 483
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David Goldblatt. Couple in their House, Soweto, South Africa. 1972 480
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Marisol (Marisol Escobar). The Family. 1962 470
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Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation No. 1. 1962 481
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Andy Warhol. Campbell's Soup Cans. 1962 476
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Claes Oldenburg. False Food Selection. c. 1966 496
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Yoko Ono. Film No. 4 (Bottoms). 1966–67 432
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Robert Ryman. Twin. 1966 468
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Agnes Martin. Friendship. 1963 494
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Martha Rosler. Cleaning the Drapes from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home. c. 1967-72 497
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Alfonso Ossorio. Empty Chair or The Last Colonial. 1969 493
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Emory Douglas with Yolanda Lopez. The Black Panther Newspaper, vol. 3, no. 20 (Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale). 1969 482
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Emory Douglas. The Black Panther Newspaper, vol. 3, no. 18 (Kill black panther, kill black people). 1969 491
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John Outterbridge. Strange Fruit, Containment Series. 1969 484
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Melvin Edwards. The Lifted X. 1965 435
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United Nations Headquarters Board of Design, Wallace K. Harrison, Max Abramovitz, Oscar Niemeyer, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret). Façade from the United Nations Secretariat Building, New York, New York. 1950 703
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Charles Eames, Ray Eames. Case Study House no. 8 (Eames House), Los Angeles, CA. 1950 472
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James Rosenquist. F-111. 1964-65 455
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Robert Rauschenberg. Canto XXXIII: Circle Nine, Cocytus, Compound Fraud: Round 2, Antenora, Treacherous to Country; Round 3, Ptolomea, Treacherous to Guests and Hosts from the series Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno. 1959-60 439