Slick, Self-Portrait, 1977: Just how lasting is a first impression? Take one look at Slick, then decide. Barkley Hendricks' self-portrait contains all the details to evoke a powerful first-response from the viewer -- colorful cap, pristine white suit, shades, and a toothpick. Slick gazes at us with the nonchalance and confidence of a man who knows himself

Marilyn: Andy Warhol's worship of Hollywood film goddesses began in his youth in Pittsburgh, where he pored over movie magazines and made copies of glossy fashion ads featuring starlets like Hedy Lamarr. In New York, his preoccupation with movie queens manifested itself most famously in his iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe, which he began only weeks after her tragic death in August 1962.

The Family, c. 1892: he figures are arranged in a pyramid shape in the foreground, reminiscent of Renaissance Madonna and child groupings. Both the Mother and older daughter gaze at the baby.

Music: Like Thomas Hart Benton, the New York painter Philip Evergood devoted much of his art of the 1930s to gritty populist images of contemporary life. In his paintings he celebrated the vitality of the American worker and urban common man.

Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets: Manet chose here to light his model vividly from the side so that Berthe Morisot's face seems to be all light and shadow. Here represented with black eyes (in fact they were green), she is dressed all in black, with a matching hat, no doubt better to enhance her "Spanish" beauty remarked on since her first appearance in Manet's work in 1869.

The Daughters of Durand-Ruel, 1882: A double portrait of the two daughters of Jean-Marie-Fortuné Durand and his wife Marie Ruel, owners of a famous art gallery in Paris. Jeanne, the younger girl with her hat off, and Marie-Therese are posed on a garden bench dressed in light-colored summer frocks.

New Year's Eve, ca. 1940: This is a lithograph of a young African-American couple celebrating New Year's Eve. They are sitting closely together at a table, covered with a checkered tablecloth, with noise makers in hand.

Battle of Lake Erie, ca. 1934: In the summer of 1934 Woodruff spent six weeks in Mexico as an unpaid assistant to mural painter Diego Rivera, the leader of a vigorous, revolutionary public-art movement in that country. When Americans were called upon to decorate schools, post offices, and courthouses for the New Deal's public art projects, Mexican muralists like Rivera were their mentors. Rivera's monumental paintings glorifying the history of the Mexican people served as a practical guide for Woodruff's work.

New York Pavements, 1924 or 1925: Isolation, separateness, silence-such words are often used to describe the elusive mood evoked by Edward Hopper's works. Widely recognized today as "the major realist painter of mid-twentieth-century America" (Gail Levin), Hopper has long been famous for his hauntingly empty New York cityscapes and rural New England views, and his bleak interior scenes inhabited by solitary, introspective figures.

Bedroom Painting #15, 1968-70: Among the most irreverent and playful of post-World War II aesthetics, Pop art came to the fore in England and America in the late 1950s and over the next decade gained acceptance as a major style.