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Woman's Necklace
Maasai
Animal hide, beads, shell, and metal
Art Institute of Chicago

The Brave Ones, from the series Signs of Life
Jo Ractliffe
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

The Two Janóses Visiting Me, Mala-Fürdő, Esztergom, Hungary
André Kertész
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Affluences in Europe: with the new wave of prosperity, trade or luxury items flourish. Record sales are soaring, despite their relatively high price. This big store on the Champs Elysees is open seven days a week, late into the night, and is crowded with customers all the time, Paris
Erich Lessing
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Affluences in Europe: in France, prosperity immediately translates itself into good food. The variety of cuts of meat sold in the market is staggering: everything from barbecued chickens to calf hearts, from the lushest whole hams to tripe is lovingly displayed in neat rows decorated with green leaves and herbs, a butcher-shop in Paris
Erich Lessing
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Scenting a kimono with incense
Yanagawa Shigenobu II
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
Art Institute of Chicago

Buncheong Landscape - The Sky
Lee Kang-Hyo
Stoneware with glaze
Art Institute of Chicago

Court House Entrance, Perspective
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pen and black ink on cream wove paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Furniture Anchor for Barcelona Group, Chicago, Illinois, Detail
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Blackline prints
Art Institute of Chicago

Male Figure
Senufo
Wood
Art Institute of Chicago

Bell Tower Sketch, Travel Sketch
Howard Van Doren Shaw
Graphite and crayon on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Court House, Interior Perspective
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pen and black ink on cream wove paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Gendarme Hat (Kepi)
Baule
Wood
Art Institute of Chicago

Neck Collar
Maasai
Beads
Art Institute of Chicago

Shawl
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Cotton
Art Institute of Chicago

Resor House, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Elevation Sketches
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Pen and gray ink on printed cream wove paper (notebook paper)
Art Institute of Chicago

Museum for a Small City, Elevation Sketch
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Graphite on cream wove paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Teabowl
Hamada Shinsaku
Glazed stoneware
Art Institute of Chicago

Water Jar (Mizusashi)
Miraku Kamei XV
Glazed stoneware
Art Institute of Chicago

Amphora (Storage Jar)
Painter of Tarquinia RC 2984
terracotta, black-figure
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Graphite on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

"Verona" Cup and Saucer Set
Stanley Tigerman
Porcelain with overglaze transfer-printed decoration
Art Institute of Chicago

Miss Rita Renoir thinks that striptease gets its effect on the viewer, as it is done with mind and feeling, more than with the body. To demonstrate this theory, Rita Renoir performed for us a "striptease of the face", from the series "Strip-Tease"
Frank Horvat
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Rehearsal in Costume, from the series "La Télévision"
Frank Horvat
Gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago