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- A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884/86 Georges Seurat
- Coronation Stone of Motecuhzoma II (Stone of the Five Suns), 1503 Aztec (Mexica)
- Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, 1931 Georgia O’Keeffe
- America Windows, 1977 Marc Chagall
- Inventions of the Monsters, 1937 Salvador Dalí
- Saint George and the Dragon, 1434/35 Bernat Martorell
- The Herring Net, 1885 Winslow Homer
- Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando), 1887/88 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Mountain Brook, 1863 Albert Bierstadt
- A Young Lady with a Parrot, c. 1730 Rosalba Carriera
- The Home of the Heron, 1893 George Inness
- Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market, 1614 Frans Snyders
- The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush), 1890 Frederic Remington
- Helmet Mask (Mukenga), Possibly late 19th to mid -20th century Kuba
- Pair of Headdresses (Tyi Wara Kunw), Mid–19th to early 20th century Bamana
- The Policeman, 1925 Joan Miró
- Boy on a Ram, 1786/87 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
- Cabin in the Cotton, c. 1931–37 Horace Pippin
- Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo, 1742/45 Giambattista Tiepolo
- Lamp with “Hanging Head Dragonfly” Shade and “Mosaic and Turtleback” Base, By 1906 Tiffany Studios (Firm)
- For Sunday’s Dinner, 1888 William Michael Harnett
- The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, 1826 Eugène Delacroix
- Incense Burner in the Form of a Duck, Song dynasty (960–1279), 12th century
- King Vulture, 1734 Johann Joachim Kändler
- Untitled (Butterfly Habitat), c. 1940 Joseph Cornell
- Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession, c. 1820 Ghasi
- The Bronco Buster, Modeled 1895, cast 1899 Frederic Remington
- Cauldron, Western Zhou dynasty (1046–771 BC ), early 9th century BC
- The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, page from a manuscript of the Akbarnama, c. 1590-1595 Basawan
- Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket, 1876 Eastman Johnson
- Gian Lodovico Madruzzo, 1551/52 Giovanni Battista Moroni
- Equestrienne, Tang dynasty (618–907), mid-8th century
- Juan Soriano De Lacandón, 1964 Leonora Carrington
- Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) 元朝
- Female Caryatid Drum (Pinge), c. 1930-c. 1950 Senufo
- Portrait of Virgil Thomson, 1930 Florine Stettheimer
- Two Cows and a Young Bull beside a Fence in a Meadow, 1647 Paulus Potter
- Wine Cistern, 1553 Francesco Durantino
- Watchtower with Geese (Hochsitz mit Gänsen), 1987/88 Sigmar Polke
- A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey, c. 1705–1710
- Chaekgeori, late 19th -early 20th century
- Cabinet, About 1640 Adam Eck
- Young Bull, c. 1496, erroneously inscribed in another hand 1508 Albrecht Dürer
- Feathered Tunic, 1470/1532 Chimú
- Coffer, 1700/20 André Charles Boulle
- Funerary Urn (Hunping), Western Jin dynasty (A.D. 265–316), late 3rd century
- Wall Clock, c. 1735–40 Jean Pierre Latz
- Small Town by Day (Badische Kleinstadt bei Tage), 1922–23 Georg Scholz
- The Emperor Sailing, from The Story of the Emperor of China, 1716/22 Guy-Louis Vernansal
- Cow Suckling a Calf, About 9th century
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