Key Works in Art History from Romanticism to Modernism

Theodore Gericault

Raft of the "Medusa", 1818-19, Romanticism, oil on canvas

Francisco Goya

The Third of May, 1808, 1814, Romanticism, oil on canvas

Antoine-Jean Gros

Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa, 1804, Romanticism, oil on canvas

Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Slave Ship / Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying- Typhoon Coming On, 1840, Romanticism, oil on canvas

John Nash

Royal Pavilion, 1815-23, Romanticism, Brighton, England

Augustus Washington

John Brown, ca. 1846-47, Early Photography, daguerreotype

Timothy O'Sullivan

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863, 1866, Early Photography, albumen print

Gustave Courbet

The Stone Breakers, 1849, Realism, oil on canvas

Edouard Manet

Olympia, 1863, Realism, oil on canvas

Joseph Paxton

Crystal Palace, 1850-51, 19th Century, iron, glass, and wood, London

John Augustus Roebling

Brooklyn Bridge, began in 1870, opened in 1883, 19th Century

Claude Monet

Impression, Sunrise, 1872, Impressionism, oil on canvas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Moulin de la Galette, 1876, Impressionism, oil on canvas

Mary Cassatt

The Child's Bath, 1893, Impressionism, oil on canvas

Georges Seurat

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86, Impressionism, oil on canvas

Vincent van Gogh

Starry Night, 1889, Impressionism, oil on canvas

Paul Gauguin

Manao Tupapau/ Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892, Impressionism, painting

Paul Cézanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1904, Impressionism, oil on canvas

Auguste Rodin

Burghers of Calais, 1884-89, Symbolism, Bronze

Edvard Munch

The Scream, 1893, Symbolism, tempera and pastels on cardboard

Henri Matisse

The Woman with the Hat, 1905, Fauvism - German Expressionism, oil on canvas

Vasily Kandinsky

Improvisation 28 (Second Version), 1912, Fauvism, oil on canvas- Die Blaue Reiter

Pablo Picasso

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, Cubism, oil on canvas

Georges Braque

The Portuguese, 1911, Analytic Cubism, oil on canvas

Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, Futurism, Bronze

Kasimir Malevich

Black Square, 1915, Suprematism/Constructivism, oil on linen

Vladimir Tatlin

Monument to the Third International, 1919-1920, Suprematism/Constructivism, wood, iron, glass. Never fully built.

Hannah Höch

Cut with the Kitchen Knife- Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly, 1919-20, Dada, collage and photomontage with watercolor

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain, 1917, Dada, Readymade sculpture

Piet Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930, De Stijl, oil on canvas

René Magritte

The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe), 1929, Surrealism, oil on canvas

Salvador Dalí

The Persistence of Memory, 1931, Surrealism, oil on canvas

Meret Oppenheim

Object (Luncheon in Fur), 1936, Surrealism, Sculpture

Pablo Picasso

Guernica, 1937, Post-Cubist Picasso, painting

Charles Demuth

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928, Early 20th Century American Modernism, Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paperboard

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks, 1942, Early 20th Century American Modernism, oil on canvas

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936, Early 20th Century American Modernism, photograph (Gelatin Silver Print)

James Van Der Zee

Couple, Harlem, NY, 1932, Harlem Renaissance, Photograph

Jacob Lawrence

During the World War there was a Great Migration North by Southern Negroes, 1940-41, Harlem Renaissance, Tempera on Masonite

Diego Rivera

Man, Controller of the Universe, 1934, Mexican Muralism, Fresco

Frida Kahlo

The Two Fridas, 1939, oil on canvas

Frank Lloyd Wright

Kauffmann House (Fallingwater), 1936-39, Prairie Style, Bear Run, PA

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson

Seagram Building, 1954-58, International Style of Architecture, New York City

Jackson Pollock

Lavender Mist (Number 1, 1950), 1950, Abstract Expressionism, painting on canvas

Willem de Kooning

Woman I, 1950-1952, Abstract Expressionism, oil on canvas

Andy Warhol

Green Coca Cola Bottles, 1962, Pop art, Silkscreen on canvas

Roy Lichtenstein

Oh Jeff, I Love You Too... But..., 1964, Pop art, oil and Magna on canvas

Richard Serra

Tilted Arc, 1981, Minimalism, Sculpture

Maya Ying Lin Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1981-1983, Post-Minimalism, Washington DC