Post-War (1946-1989)

Highlights include works from the 1950s and 60s by Ivan Albright, Jean Dubuffet, Ibrahim el-Salahi, Yayoi Kusama, Roberto Matta, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Edward Ruscha, and Dorothea Tanning; a large archive of the works on paper by Sonia Landy Sheridan; noteworthy prints in a variety of media; and a large collection of works by documentary photographers and photojournalists, including Dmitri Baltermants, Susan Meiselas, Ed Grazda, and James Nachtwey. 

Levi Qumaluk, Inuit / Canadian, 1919 - 1997 | Arctic | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Second Scene from the Legend of Shokkoaluk and his Wife (Shokkoaluk is standing pushing his wife below...
1960
160.34.14537
Mannumi Shaqu, Inuit / Canadian, 1917 - 1997 | Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Boy Holding a Dog
collected 1953-1962
168.94.24433
Twamie Okaitok, Inuit / Canadian, 1900 - 1963 | Arctic | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
An Inuk Holding a Beluga Whale Tail and a Knife
1950s
168.94.24437
Terry Winters, American, born 1949
Double Standard
1984
2005.11
Amir Nour, Sudanese, 1939 - 2021
Dismuke
1972
2005.15
Malick Sidibé, Malian, 1936 - 2016
Untitled (Reclining Woman)
1969
2005.19
Richard Ernst Artschwager, American, 1923 - 2013
Arch
1989
2005.36
Sisson Blanchard, Haitian, 1929 - 1981
Untitled (Owl)
1960s (collected in 1966)
2005.7.1
Dorothea Tanning, American, 1910 - 2012
To The Rescue
1965
2006.15
Duffy Wilson (Ha-Da-Noh; Wilmer Francis), Tuscarora / American, 1925 - 2002 | Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) | Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) | Northeast Woodlands | Woodlands
Untitled (Eagle)
1979
2006.44.1
Malick Sidibé, Malian, 1936 - 2016
Babanco Club
negative 1964; print 2006
2006.82.1
Jak Katarikawe, Ugandan, 1940 - 2018
The Dream
1970s
2007.14
Varujan Boghosian, American, 1926 - 2020
Homage to Orpheus
1964
2007.76
Elizabeth King, American, born 1950
Idea for a Mechanical Eye
1988-1990
2008.37
T. C. Cannon, Ka'igwu / Caddo / Choctaw / American, 1946 - 1978 | Caddo | Choctaw | Ka'igwu (Kiowa) | Southern Plains | Plains
Collector No. 5
about 1977
2008.57
Robert Rauschenberg, American, 1925 - 2008
Untitled, from The Paris Review Print Series
1965
2008.65.1
John Angus Chamberlain, American, 1927 - 2011
Untitled
1983
2008.90
Thomas Eakins, American, 1844 - 1916
Ecorche: Relief of a Horse (Josephine)
modeled about 1882; cast 1979
2009.72.1
Armando Morales, Nicaraguan, 1927 - 2011
Two Bathers (Dos Banistas)
1980
2011.21.2
Karoo Ashevak, Inuit / Canadian, 1940 - 1974 | Central Arctic | Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Untitled (Spirit Figure)
about 1970-1974
2011.25.1
Karoo Ashevak, Inuit / Canadian, 1940 - 1974 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Untitled (Shaman)
about 1970-1974
2011.25.2
Meyer Vaisman, Venezuelan, born 1960
Untitled
1988
2011.63.11
Seepee Ipellie, Inuit / Canadian, 1940 - 2000 | Arctic | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Bird with Spread Wings
1983
2011.64.15
Martha Ittulukatnak, Inuit / Canadian, 1912 - 1981 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Ayaya
1972
2011.64.16
Helen Kalvak, Inuit / Canadian, 1901 - 1984 | Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Chasing Away an Evil Spirit Who Came When the People were Resting
1972
2011.64.20
Jessie Oonark, Inuit / Canadian, 1906 - 1985 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Untitled (Spirit Barges)
about 1975
2011.64.25
Jessie Oonark, Inuit / Canadian, 1906 - 1985 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
The Great Hunter
1975
2011.64.30
Abraham POV, Inuit / Canadian, 1927 - 1994 | Arctic | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
An Inuk Women Processing Sealskin
1982
2011.64.35
Leon Polk Smith, Cherokee / American, 1906 - 1996 | Cherokee | Southeast
Inch Squares No. 3
1948-1949
2012.17
Fritz Scholder, Luiseño / American, 1937 - 2005 | Luiseño (Luiseno) | California culture
Untitled (American Portrait Series)
about 1979-1980
2012.20
Leroy Lamis, American, 1923 - 2010
Construction No. 194
1970
2012.41
Fan Tchunpi, Chinese, 1898 - 1986
White Mountain Landscape
about 1960
2012.84
Francesca Woodman, American, 1958 - 1981
Untitled, from the Eel Series, Rome
May 1977-August 1978
2013.13
Juan O'Gorman, Mexican, 1905 - 1982
Chalma
1950
2013.72.5
Diego Rivera, Mexican, 1886 - 1957
Self-Portrait
about 1950
2013.72.6
Stephen Shore, American, born 1947
Flat Creek, Jackson, Wyoming
September 2, 1979
2014.106.22
Ray Johnson, American, 1927 - 1995
Hat and Mouse
1966
2014.15
Arctic | Davidiakluk Alasua Amittu, Inuit / Canadian, 1910 - 1976 | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
A Woman Carrying A Butchered Animal
about 1960
2014.17.10
Arctic | Akeeaktashuk, Inuit / Canadian, 1898 - 1954 | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Man in Parka Holding a Spear
about 1952
2014.17.11
George Twok Aden Ahgupuk, Iñupiaq / American, 1911 - 2001 | Arctic | Iñupiaq | Western Arctic
Untitled (Caribou Herd in a Winter Landscape)
about 1950s
2014.17.4
Jim Dine, American, born 1935
Two Robes (ferns, acid and water) (Diptych)
1976
2015.35.16ab
Ibrahim El-Salahi, Sudanese, born 1930
Untitled
1969
2015.8
Joan Mitchell, American, 1925 - 1992
Untitled
about 1959
d.2002.28
Twins Seven Seven, Nigerian, 1944 - 2011
Untitled (Figure Cutting Down Tree)
1970s
d.2003.21.1
Agnes Martin, American, 1912 - 2004
Untitled
1967
d.2003.51
Charles Wilbert White, American, 1918 - 1979
Exploding Star (Awake)
1965
d.968.24
Lee Bontecou, American, 1931 - 2022
Untitled
1964
d.976.217.1
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958-2009 | Christo (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff), American (born Bulgaria), 1935 - 2020 | Jeanne-Claude Marie Denat, French (born Morocco), 1935 - 2009
Running Fence: Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, California
1976
d.977.149.1
Paul Sample, American, 1896 - 1974
Will Bond
about 1948
d.983.34.7
Francisco Zúñiga, Mexican, 1912 - 1998
Evelia (Nude)
1977
d.987.27
Alice Aycock, American, born 1946
Solar Wind Project for Roanoke
1982
d.991.18.1
Walter Tandy Murch, American (born Canada), 1907 - 1967
Study #18
1962
d.995.61
Ralston Crawford, American, 1906 - 1978
Box Car & New Orleans
1951
d.996.33
Sonia Landy Sheridan, American, 1925 - 2021
Sonia through Sonia in Time, number 18, from a series of 18
1974
mis.2004.84.324.19
Rufino Tamayo, Mexican, 1899 - 1991
Portrait of Rosalind Richards
1948
p.2004.13
John Sloan, American, 1871 - 1951
A Roof in Chelsea, New York
about 1941, with additions in 1945 and 1951
p.946.12.2
Maxfield Parrish, American, 1870 - 1966
Hunt Farm (Daybreak)
1948
p.950.73
Lawren Stewart Harris, Canadian, 1885 - 1970
Lake Superior
about 1948
p.951.77
Roland Dorcély, Haitian, 1930 - 2017
The Two Sisters #2
about 1957
p.958.46
Matta, Chilean, 1911 - 2002
Terre Verte (Green Earth)
1952
p.960.57.2
Mark Rothko, American (born in Latvia), 1903 - 1970
Lilac and Orange over Ivory
1953
p.961.123
Yves Klein, French, 1928 - 1962
Blue Monochrome Sponge Relief (RE24)
1960
p.961.288
Xavier Esqueda, Mexican, born 1943
The Relatives of Icarus (Los Parientes de Icaro)
about 1965
p.965.105
Matta, Chilean, 1911 - 2002
A Pinch of Earth
1953
p.965.74
George Tooker, American, 1920 - 2011
Farewell
1966
p.967.76
Jack Tworkov, American (born Poland), 1900 - 1982
Untitled (R. A. on P. #9)
1972
p.973.116
Fritz Scholder, Luiseño / American, 1937 - 2005 | Luiseño (Luiseno) | California culture
Dartmouth Portrait #17
1973
p.974.11
Claudio Bravo, Chilean, 1936 - 2011
Portrait of a Martyr
1972
p.974.373
Alex Katz, American, born 1927
Supper
1974
p.975.70
Fernando Botero, Colombian, 1932 - 2023
La Mesa del Carnicero (The Butcher Table); Still Life with Pig's Head
1969
p.975.72
Jean Dubuffet, French, 1901 - 1985
Topographie au nid de pierres (Topography With a Nest of Stones)
1958
p.975.99
Philomé Obin, Haitian, 1892 - 1986
La Fossette vers 1897: Les Bourgeois du Cap Revenant de leurs Habitations (The "Pit" (a Cap-Haitien...
1958
p.976.205
Edward Joseph Ruscha, American, born 1937
Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas
1963
p.976.281
Alice Neel, American, 1900 - 1984
Daniel Algis Alkaitis, Class of 1965
1967
p.978.155
Adolph Gottlieb, American, 1903 - 1974
Black Enigma
1946
p.978.163
Roland Dorcély, Haitian, 1930 - 2017
Mother and Son
before 1957
p.984.39.3
Ivan Albright, American, 1897 - 1983
The Vermonter (If Life Were Life There Would Be No Death)
1966-1977
p.985.31
Romare Howard Bearden, American, 1911 - 1988
Palm Sunday Procession
1967-1968
p.986.77.4
Harry Fonseca, Maidu / American, 1946 - 2006 | Maidu | California culture
Coyote Woman in the City
1979
p.989.10
Robert Motherwell, American, 1915 - 1991
Chambre d'Amour
1958
p.996.21.1
David Smith, American, 1906 - 1965
3/20/52
1952
p.997.42
Matta, Chilean, 1911 - 2002
Untitled
1949
p.998.48
Larry Fink, American, 1941 - 2023
Norfolk, Connecticut, July 1978
1978
ph.2000.1.12
Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian, born 1944
Brasil (Hand, Serra Pelada)
1986
ph.2002.59
Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian, born 1962
Esprit 2
1985
ph.2003.30.3
Garry Winogrand, American, 1928 - 1984
New York City, 1968, number 2, from Garry Winogrand, a Portfolio of 15 Silver Prints
1969, published 1978
ph.979.9.2
Tod Papageorge, American, born 1940
White Boy and Baby
1981
ph.997.54.2
Elizabeth Murray, American, 1940 - 2007
Untitled, number 9 of 13 from Her Story: A book of thirteen original graphics by Elizabeth Murray for...
1988-1990
pr.2000.28.9
Maeght Editeur, Paris, France
Sunflower III
1972
pr.2001.16
Rupert García, American, born 1941
Friends of the People
1988
pr.2002.66
Masami Teraoka, Japanese, born 1936
AIDS Series / Geisha and Ghost Cat
1989-2002
pr.2003.8
Stow Wengenroth, American, 1906 - 1978
Manhattan Gateway
1948
pr.949.89
Dorothea Tanning, American, 1910 - 2012
Septieme peril (Seventh Peril)
1949-1950
pr.951.7.7
Kiyoshi Saito, Japanese, 1907 - 1997
Ancient City Nara
1957
pr.957.187.1
Shiko Munakata, Japanese, 1903 - 1975
Hawk Woman (Taka no onna no saku)
1955; printed 1958
pr.959.40
Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit / Canadian, 1927 - 2013 | Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Dogs See the Spirits
1960
pr.961.115
Leonard Baskin, American, 1922 - 2000
Icarus
1967
pr.967.83
Yukihisa Isobe, Japanese, born 1936
Untitled
1965
pr.972.155
Larry Rivers, American, 1923 - 2002
Untitled, number 22: from the portfolio Works by Artists in the New York Collection for Stockholm
1973
pr.974.372.22
Wayne Thiebaud, American, 1920 - 2021
Big Suckers
1971
pr.976.8