Collection 1940s–1970s

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Jackie Winsor. Burnt Piece. 1977-78 452
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Melvin Edwards. 4 works from the Lynch Fragment series. 1986 475
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Mark Rothko. Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea. 1944 428
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Jacob Lawrence. Migration Series. 1940-41 457
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Jackson Pollock. One: Number 31. 1950 402
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Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52 405
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Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublimis. 1950-51 403
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Franz Kline. Painting Number 2. 1954 453
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Mark Rothko. No. 10. 1950 437
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Lee Krasner. Gaea. 1966 450
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Grace Hartigan. Shinnecock Canal. 1957 445
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Robert Rauschenberg. Canto I: The Dark Wood of Error from the series Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno. 1958 439
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Atsuko Tanaka. Untitled. 1964 401
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Robert Rauschenberg. Bed. 1955 458
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Lee Bontecou. Untitled. 1961 409
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Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954) 420
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Niki de Saint Phalle. Shooting Painting American Embassy. 1961 477
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Gordon Parks. Emerging Man, Harlem, New York. 1952 430
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E. McKnight Kauffer. Cover design for Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. 1952 492
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Jeff Wall. After "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue. 1999-2000 434
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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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Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation No. 1. 1962 481
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Tom Wesselmann. Still Life #57. 1969-70 456
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Marisol (Marisol Escobar). The Family. 1962 470
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Andy Warhol. Campbell's Soup Cans. 1962 476
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Robert Ryman. Twin. 1966 468
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Agnes Martin. Friendship. 1963 494
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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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Martha Rosler. Beauty Rest from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home. c. 1967-72 497
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John Outterbridge. Strange Fruit, Containment Series. 1969 433
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Emory Douglas. The Black Panther Newspaper, vol. 3, no. 2 (Free Huey). 1969 491
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Emory Douglas. The Black Panther Newspaper, vol. 4, no.13 (Our main purpose). 1970 482
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Hervé Télémaque. No Title (The Ugly American). 1962/64 444
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Melvin Edwards. The Lifted X. 1965 435
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Nancy Spero. Notes in Time. 1979 422
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Laurie Simmons. Blonde/Red Dress/Kitchen, from the series Interiors. 1978 431
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Eva Hesse. Repetition Nineteen III. 1968 415
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John Baldessari. What Is Painting. 1966-68 441