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Unbound book of 30 black-and-white photos in teakwood box and wrapped in an embroidered cloth

The Block Collection Spotlight series invites a closer look at objects in the Block Museum permanent collection from students, staff, faculty, and museum audiences. These blog posts present new scholarship and new perspectives on the collection.

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Peasant Couple Dancing
Peasant Couple Dancing
Sebald Beham
1522
Abstract print of angular shapes and primary colors in a white oval, surrounded by black
Small Worlds III, from the portfolio Kleine Welten (Small Worlds)
Wassily Kandinsky
1922
Incomplete polished metal cylinder with interior revealed to show plates and hollow spaces
Cilindro construito (Constructed Cylinder)
Arnaldo Pomodoro
1969
Untitled, from the series International Nickel
Untitled, from the series International Nickel
W. Eugene Smith
ca. 1967–68
Jean Pearson in her First Movie, from the series Theater Girl, for Life Magazine
Jean Pearson in her First Movie, from the series Theater Girl, for Life Magazine
W. Eugene Smith
1949
Curved metal sculpture with pointed top and intersecting metal strings attached to each side
Curved Form (Bryher II)
Barbara Hepworth
1961
The Peaceable Kingdom (Isaiah 11:6-8)
The Peaceable Kingdom (Isaiah 11:6-8)
Fritz Eichenberg
1950
Group of nine boys and young men grouped together with cross-like telephone poles in background
Scottsboro Limited, from the portfolio Scottsboro
Prentiss Taylor
1932
Constellation Exhibit 1959
Constellation Exhibit 1959
Joan Miró
1959
Snow Does
Snow Does
Carol Wax
1995
A girl in a dress looks at the viewer and sits in the lap of her mother, who looks at her tenderly
Mother and Child
Margaret Burroughs
1996
Mexican Street Scene
Mexican Street Scene
Miguel Covarrubias
ca. 1940
The Campfire
The Campfire
Roy De Forest
1993
Adoration of the Masters
Adoration of the Masters
Elizabeth Olds
1940
Die grossen Turner aus der Heidburg mit den "Bananen-Bäuchen", Siegfried u. Kunigunde vom Lehrer gennant (The great gymnasts of Heidburg with the "banana-bellies"—called Siegfried and Kunigunde by their teacher), from the series Erinnern (Remembering)
Die grossen Turner aus der Heidburg mit den "Bananen-Bäuchen", Siegfried u. Kunigunde vom Lehrer gennant (The great gymnasts of Heidburg with the "banana-bellies"—called Siegfried and Kunigunde by their teacher), from the series Erinnern (Remembering)
Michael Schwab
1993
Expressive bust-length portrait of a man sketching with distorted face and skull in background
Tod und Künstler (Death and the Artist), from the series Totentanz (Dance of Death)
Lovis Corinth
1921, published 1922
Profile view of a Black girl basking in the sun, her dainty earring in the center of photograph
Girl With Earring, from the series East Side, Buffalo, New York
Milton Rogovin
1961-62
A man on the floor next to a bed, bleeding, with an infant under him and two other bodies around him
Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834 (Rue Transnonain, on April 15, 1834)
Honoré Daumier
1834
An abstract mugshot made up of a fingerprint and barcode on a red background
Como te ven te tratan (How they see you, they treat you)
Hector Duarte
2007
Black-and-white print with large number of small, evenly spaced circular and angular symbols
P-049 Formal Language, IRI=2
Manfred Mohr
1970, drawn 1979
Pastel-toned vertical print with organic leaf and flower-like shapes concentrated in the center
Amoeba, from the series Once Upon a Forest
Joshua Davis
2005
Black-and-white close-up photo of man on a bike, seen from the side, riding on a sidewalk
Unidentified Man on Bike
Andy Warhol
1976/87
Four people wearing accordions and, in the foreground, two faces and a television showing a poodle
Flamenco
Ed Paschke
1991
J. and J. Wearne and E. Finlay Dwelling, Castlecrag
J. and J. Wearne and E. Finlay Dwelling, Castlecrag
Walter Burley Griffin
1925
Two mechanical figures bend over toward a hybrid fireplace-piano, with baby and flies in foreground
The Family
Seymour Rosofsky
1968
Mother and child looking at reflection in water-filled barrel, and text in Japanese throughout print
Higure Hotei (Hotei at dusk), from the series Toto shichi fukujin no uchi (The Seven Gods of Fortune)
Utagawa Sadatora
ca. 1820s
Collaged photographs and drawings of Leo Tolstoy with colorful text and drawing of fish superimposed
Peace I: Life of Tolstoy
Vitaly Komar
1986
Red lines project down from upper left, interspersed with geometric, organic, and mechanical shapes
Night
Sarah Sze
2003
Blue lines swirl out from upper right and envelop geometric and mechanical shapes on cream backgroun
Day
Sarah Sze
2003
Color photograph of a cup and bowl of peaches on a white cutting board with a light green background
Untitled #49 from The Renaissance Society Photographic Portfolio
Laura Letinsky
2002
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