Modern Art and Design

Dating from 1880 to the 1950s, the modern collection comprises European and American painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper. In design as well as the fine arts, the collection encompasses major international artistic movements while celebrating regional approaches to modernism.

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Title	Artist	Date	Accession No.
Amalie	George Grosz	1922	1974.140
Dining Table and Six Side Chairs	Frank Lloyd Wright	1907-1910	1967.73-79
Four-Piece Composition	Henry Moore	1934 (reinforced concrete edition); 1962 (bronze edition)	1974.163
Harbor in Light	Arthur Garfield Dove	1929	1995.48
No. 2	Mark Rothko	1962	1976.161
On the Lake Front Promenade Columbian World Exposition	Childe Hassam	1893	1976.146
Pierrot with Clarinet	Jacques Lipchitz	1919	1974.300
Portrait of Marian Despres	Diego Rivera	1937	2007.170
Soldier at a Game of Chess (Le Soldat a la partie d' echecs)	Jean Metzinger	c. 1915-1916	1985.21
Tea Service: Tea Infuser (Pot)	Bauhaus Metal Workshop, Weimar or Dessau, Germany	1924 (design, manufactured at the Bauhaus between 1924 and 1929)	2006.19.1a-c
Untitled	Norman Lewis	1947	1993.49
Woman Stretching (Femme s'étirant)	Edgar Degas	1896-1917 (wax model), 1919-1921 (edition cast)	1974.147

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