Collection Highlights
![A human figure composed of found objects including lipstick tubes, jewelry, and hairbrushes, all smeared in white paint.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/featured_images/2012_462.jpg?h=7699e13c&itok=RGkHo-iF)
Lady Woolworth
Lil Picard
![36 small squares painted different colors, with a handkerchief over each square, resembling a quilt.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-10/2003.2_1%20copy.jpg?h=b044a8f9&itok=r6LKL4JP)
Connection
Miriam Schapiro
![Many overlapping pieces of black and white fabric with an abstract design, interspersed with other colorful fabric scraps.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/featured_images/1980_3.jpg?h=b9961bca&itok=cLcNEQDH)
Reconstruction No. 69
Lucas Samaras
![A painting in a style reminiscent of graffiti art, with a background that is primarily blue, pink, and yellow. A square (top left) shows an alligator eating a human hand. A face with a large mouth and teeth (top right) sits above a large white letter “I”. There are large letters and arrows in the center of the painting, and the word “Smile” off of which a small naked figure hangs by the neck. At the bottom, an upside-down face with sunglasses (tilted down) sticks out a long tongue which rests on the bottom](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/featured_images/2001_130.jpg?h=cdd31788&itok=p7C6htPC)
Trap
Luis Cruz Azaceta
![The top of a bald head peeks over a grey wall, with the eye half visible. The head and background are a similar color of orange, which makes the head appear camouflaged.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/featured_images/1972_9.jpg?h=c2382bac&itok=RRrCrHtt)
Half Head
Horst Antes
![Several L-shaped pieces stacked over and interacting with each other. Each has a gradient from white to black, creating the feeling of an optical illusion.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/featured_images/1976_93.jpg?h=eb48f136&itok=krtu_-x5)
O and O and O
Kazys Varnelis
![A tall skinny “Y” shaped piece of steel with two metal rods attached to each point that intersect with each other maxing the shape of an “X”.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/featured_images/1969.526_13.jpg?h=d2432233&itok=dXW46Vlz)
Two Lines Oblique
George Rickey
![A painting, primarily in shades of green, with birds of different varieties in the foreground. The background shows a series of scientific instruments and processes. Three dragonflies fly towards the upper right corner.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-10/2014.135%20copy.jpg?h=13c7d6b0&itok=QitLaw8d)
Alchemistic Egg
Ellen Lanyon
![A wooden sawhorse with a column of bricks tied above and below.](/sites/stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/featured_images/2016.65_2016.jpg?h=8b708748&itok=K5iUF6LI)
Untitled
Charles Ray