Made in America: Radical Figures

Constantin Brâncuși, Woman's Head, c. 1910, conté crayon with blind stylus on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.66.2

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918, palladium print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70.8

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Marius de Zayas, Agnes Ernst Meyer, Mental Reactions, 1915, brush and pen and black ink with collage of cut-and-pasted texts over graphite on paperboard, Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, 2007.37.1

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Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy True, 1919, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.438

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Henri Matisse, Seated Nude, Light Version (Petit Bois clair), 1906, woodcut in black on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1964.8.1255

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Alfred Stieglitz, Claudia O'Keeffe, 1922, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.519

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Henri Matisse, Nude in Three-Quarters with Part of Her Head Cropped Off (Nu de trois-quarts, une partie de la tête coupée), 1913, lithograph in black on Japanese vellum, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1977.42.1

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso, 1918, palladium print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70.38

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Master F.P., Woman Carrying a Tray, 1527/1530, etching, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1977.46.1

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso, 1918/1919, palladium print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70.30

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Auguste Rodin, Rear View of Female Figure in Action, 1904, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson, 1942.5.35

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso, 1918, palladium print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70.37

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Edward Steichen, Mushton Shlushley, the Lyric Poet and Aestheticurean, c. 1922, opaque watercolor and ink over graphite on paperboard, Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, 2011.85.1

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Alfred Stieglitz, Helen Freeman, 1921, palladium print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.461

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Edward Steichen, Madame X and Johnny Marine, c. 1922, opaque watercolor and ink over graphite on paperboard, Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, 2011.85.3

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Max Weber, Crouching Nude, 1919-1920, color woodcut on wove paper, Gift of Daryl and Lee Rubenstein, 1976.60.1

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe—Neck, 1921, palladium print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70.160

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Max Weber, Standing Nude, 1919-1920, color woodcut on wove paper, Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, 2015.114.4

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe with Matisse Sculpture, 1921, palladium print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1980.70.176

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Two gears with interlocking sprockets, painted in shades of cobalt, slate, and sky blue and shown against a black background, nearly fill this abstracted, vertical work. A large gear, situated to our upper right, takes up most of the composition and extends off the top and right edges. It is marked with a number 2, and the much smaller gear, to our lower left, is labeled with a gold number 1 at its center. Circles and straight and curving lines cluster around and over the gears, and are drawn in metallic gold against the dark background but continue in black where they cross the gears. An inscription in gold capital letters across the top reads, “MACHINE TOURNEZ VITE.” In the lower left, it reads, “1 FEMME” and “2 HOMME.” The artist signed the work in lower right in metallic gold letters: “Picabia.”

Francis Picabia, Machine tournez vite (Machine Turn Quickly), 1916/1918, brush and ink with watercolor and shell gold over a 19th-century French lithographic illustration; laid down on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1989.10.1

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