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A painting slows a slim Black woman in a wide-brimmed yellow hat, tufts of short gray hair peeking out. She stares off into the distance with a tired and somber expression. Her facial bones are exaggerated in their angularity. A painting slows a slim Black woman in a wide-brimmed yellow hat, tufts of short gray hair peeking out. She stares off into the distance with a tired and somber expression. Her facial bones are exaggerated in their angularity. A painting of three shirtless, fair-skinned men scraping a wood floor in a warmly lit room with a balcony. Trim and strong, with well-defined muscles, the men extend their arms in front of them as they kneel and scrape. Tools and curls of wood scrapings lie on the floor, the scraping making a striped pattern across its length. A bottle of wine rests on the floor at right. A painting of three shirtless, fair-skinned men scraping a wood floor in a warmly lit room with a balcony. Trim and strong, with well-defined muscles, the men extend their arms in front of them as they kneel and scrape. Tools and curls of wood scrapings lie on the floor, the scraping making a striped pattern across its length. A bottle of wine rests on the floor at right. A very wide color drawing shows a woman's face in the center, receding behind vertical streaks of blue. Her head is crowned with a mass of bright green writhing snakes. Her hands hold small plates on either side of her head, on which the snakes slither. Drawn over top are four bulb-like flowers that emit trails of smoke or odor. A very wide color drawing shows a woman's face in the center, receding behind vertical streaks of blue. Her head is crowned with a mass of bright green writhing snakes. Her hands hold small plates on either side of her head, on which the snakes slither. Drawn over top are four bulb-like flowers that emit trails of smoke or odor.

Learn how the artistic and political home Elizabeth Catlett found in Chicago shaped her life and work, dive into Gustave Caillebotte’s radical depictions of daily life, and trace the regional stylings of Europe’s Symbolist movement.

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