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Aaron Douglas, Building More Stately Mansions, 1944. Aaron Douglas©, Visual Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA), New York.

Introduction

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

The Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries, Spalter Media Gallery and Chace Galleries include painting, sculpture, video, works on paper, design, textiles, and fashion from turn of the 20th century and into the 21st Century.

Selected Objects

Hector Guimard, designer

Stained Glass Window, 1896-97

Harry Bertoia, designer

Child's Chair (Model 426), 1954

Yüksel Arslan

Arture 51, “100 Meaningless” (Arture 51, “100 Sans Sens”), 1964

Frank Lloyd Wright, designer

Stained Glass Window (Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, NY), 1904

Henri Matisse

Still Life with Lemons, 1914

Alvar Aalto, designer

Armchair (model 31), 1931-32

Ana Mendieta

Furrows, 1984

Ana Mendieta

Furrows, 1984

Alexander Calder

Untitled, ca. 1957

William S. Hammersley

Rocking Stool, 1979

Marion Post Wolcott

Negro Entering Colored Section of Movie Theatre, Belzoni, Mississippi, 1939-1940

Unknown artist

Evening Dress, ca. 1925

Ad Reinhardt

No. 18, 1956

Auguste Delaherche

Vase, ca. 1910

Frank Lloyd Wright, designer

Stained Glass Window (Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, NY), 1904

Mary Cassatt

Simone in a Blue Bonnet, ca. 1903

Charles Eames, designer

Rocking Chair, ca. 1951

Richard Foster Yarde

The Parlor II, 1980

Gunther Gerzso

Orange, Yellow and Green Landscape (Paisaje Naranja, Amarillo y Verde), 1966

Lyonel Feininger

Church at Gelmeroda XII, 1929

Joaquín Torres-García

Construction with Central Anchor, 1932

Lee Bontecou

Untitled, 1966

Rafael Ferrer

The Balata River: “In the mountains, there you feel free” (El Rio Balatá: "En las montañas te sientes libre"), 1988

Auguste Delaherche

Vase, ca. 1910

Georgia O'Keeffe

Pink Spirea, ca. 1922

Auguste Delaherche

Vase, ca. 1910

Alice Neel

Nancy Selvage, 1967

Grace Hartigan

Homage to Matisse, 1955

James Van Der Zee

Kate and Rachel Van Der Zee, Lenox, Massachusetts, 1909

Louise Bourgeois

Still Life, 1963

Mahler B. Ryder

Keith Jarrett, 1989

Fernand Léger

Flowers, 1926

Eduardo Macentyre

En Violeta, 1966

John White Alexander

The Blue Bowl, 1898

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

Negro Head, before 1927

George Wesley Bellows

Rain on the River, 1908

Mark Di Suvero

Untitled, 1968

Jackson Pollock

Magic Lantern, 1947

Oskar Kokoschka

Portrait of Franz Hauer, ca. 1914

Elizabeth Murray

Spill One, 1981

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Pendant, 1900

Agnes Martin

America, 1958-1959

Marie Laurencin

Girl with a Pink Fan, ca. 1925

Jere Osgood

Summer '99 Shell Desk, 1999

Verner Panton, designer

Cone Chair, 1959

Auguste Rodin

Study for the Monument to Balzac, 1892

Lukta Qiatsuk

Squaw Duck, 1962

Frank Bowling

Two Blues, The Terminal Illness, 1973

Claudio Bravo

Portrait of a Young Man, 1962

Florine Stettheimer

Bouquet for Ettie, 1927

Patrick Henry Bruce

Forms, ca. 1920-1921

John Prip

Coffeepot, ca.1960

Richard Peter Stankiewicz

Grass People II, 1956

David Hammons

Rock Head, 2000

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, designer

Zig-Zag Chair, 1941

Jens Risom

Risom Stool (Model 667W), ca. 1941

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, designer

MR 10 Chair, designed 1927

Nancy Spero

Les Anges - La Bombe, 1966

Frank Lloyd Wright, designer

Library Table, 1915-1916
No Image Available

José Clemente Orozco

Requiem, 1935

Shirazeh Houshiary

Untitled, 2007

Margarete Heymann-Marks Löbenstein, designer

Bowl, ca. 1930

Margarete Heymann-Marks Löbenstein, designer

Teapot, ca. 1930

Aaron Douglas

Building More Stately Mansions, 1944

Paul Morrison

Exine, 2008

Virgil Marti

Chrysanthemum and Dragon Fly, 2006

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Man Big Hands, 2006

JVC (Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.)

Videosphere (model 3240), 1970

Steve Mendelson

#5, 1988

Steve Mendelson

#6, 1988

Hew Locke

Arabian Nights, 2006

Attributed to Peter Behrens, designer

Toaster (model 247400), 1928-1929

Marsden Hartley

Gorges du Loup, Provence, 1926

Panasonic, manufacturer

Toot-a-Loop Radio (model R-72), ca. 1972

Sue McNally

Tank Top, 2010

Sue McNally

Untitled, 2010
No Image Available

Ellen Phelan

Bank III, 1985

Eva Zeisel, designer

Century Bread Plate, ca. 1960

Eva Zeisel, designer

Century Creamer, ca. 1960

Eva Zeisel, designer

Century Cup and Saucer, ca. 1960

Eva Zeisel, designer

Century Salt and Pepper Shakers, ca. 1960

Duro Olowu, designer

Woman's Swiss Lace Cape, Spring/Summer 2013

Duro Olowu, designer

Woman's Trousers, Spring/Summer 2013

Duro Olowu, designer

Woman's Shirt, Spring/Summer 2013

David Adjaye

Washington Skeleton Chair, 2013

Carlo Bugatti, designer

Desk and Chair, ca. 1900

Kara Walker

A Special Attraction, 2014

Ernst Lichtblau

Table, ca. 1950

Russel Wright

American Modern Pitcher, 1937

Piero Fornasetti, designer

Snake a la Cleopatra Plate, 1960s -1970s

Piero Fornasetti, designer

Coquille Crocodile Plate, 1960s -1970s

Piero Fornasetti, designer

Corfam a la Du Pont Plate, 1960s -1970s
No Image Available

Rubens Ghenov

Juisbres by Morandá, 2013

Piero Fornasetti, designer

Ostrich Eggs and Green Peppers Plate, 1960s -1970s

Brodie Neill, designer

Alpha Chair, 2015

Katy Schimert

Predator, 2015

Adam Silverman

Untitled, 2016

The Haas Brothers

Big Baby, 2016

Arnold Prince

Standing Figure, 1986

Steven Weinberg

Charleen Buoy, 2000

Steven Weinberg

2016.69.4, 2000

Jagdeep Raina

Satnam Singh at the Punjabi Deli, 2016

Shahzia Sikander, artist

Portrait of the Artist, 2016

Shahzia Sikander

Portrait of the Artist, 2016

Shahzia Sikander

Portrait of the Artist, 2016

Shahzia Sikander

Portrait of the Artist, 2016

Roberto Lugo

A Century of Black Lives Mattering, 2016

René Santos

Harp Drawing, 1983
No Image Available

Jyoti Bhatt

Woman Decorates a Bullock for a Govradhan Festival, 1989

Jyoti Bhatt

Haryana Women Making “Sanjhi” at Craft Village, New Delhi, 1977
No Image Available

Ramiro Gomez

Nanny and Child (Central Park), 2018
No Image Available

Edie Fake

Thigh High, 2018

Deborah Zlotsky

Twindle, 2007
No Image Available

Pablo Bronstein

Picturesque Assemblage, 2018

Claudette Johnson

Untitled, 2015

Michael Platt

Untitled, 1997
No Image Available

Udomsak Krisanamis

Road Hole, 2000

Marcia Hafif

Green Lake Deep, 2009

Joyce J. Scott

Family, 2009

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Ice Serving Spoon, 1869

Gertrude Abercrombie

Pink Glove, 1945

Leonora Carrington

Stella Snead and Her Cat, 1941

Patricia Treib

Motifs, 2008
No Image Available

Troy Montes-Michie

America Is Woven of Many Threads #2, 2019
No Image Available

Gorham Manufacturing Company, manufacturer

Martelé Stationery Rack, 1903

Cheyenne Julien

Orchard Beach, 2019

Wendy Edwards

Rain, 1997
No Image Available

Fred Wilson

1863, 2006
No Image Available

Dawn Clements

BED, 2004

Richmond Barthé

Portrait of Julius Perkins, Jr., ca. 1940-1943
No Image Available

Lagos Space Programme x @Flatspot_

Vine Babalawo
No Image Available

Kerby Jean-Raymond, designer

Experiment 4 Fury Trail shoes, 2020

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