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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Taka no onna no saku (Hawk Woman)
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
1973
pr.974.372.22
Wayne Thiebaud, American, 1920 - 2021
Big Suckers
1971
pr.976.8