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Abstract Head is an oil painting by Russian expressionist Alexej von Jawlensky.

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Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1944.

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Apocalyptic Rider is a painting created by Nabil Kanso in 1980. It is oil on canvas measuring 7 X 9 feet, and is part of a series depicting horsemen in compositions dealing with apocalyptic themes.

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Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.

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Aquis Submersus is a painting by the German dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst created in 1919. Influenced by the Italian metaphysical art it is one of Ernst's earliest works showing surrealistic accents. It currently resides at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

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Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History is a 1985 nonfiction book by art critic Thomas Albright, about the modern history of art in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was published by the University of California Press.

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Beasts of the Sea is a paper collage on canvas by Henri Matisse from 1950. It is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.. During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health. Eventually by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts. Beasts of the Sea, is an example of Matisse's final body of works known as the cutouts.

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Big Electric Chair, created in 1967, is part of a series of works by Andy Warhol depicting an electric chair. Death by electrocution was a controversial subject in New York City, where the artist lived and worked, especially after the last two executions at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1963. Warhol obtained a photograph of the empty execution chamber, which became the basis for this series.

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Cabaret Scene (1922) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. It was a unique cubist experiment that came between Dalí's early impressionist work and the classic surrealist technique he later developed. Dalí was inspired by Pablo Picasso after he got expelled from the School of Fine Arts in Spain. His inspiration was shown in his paintings, such as this one.

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Monogram is a Combine by American artist Robert Rauschenberg, made from 1955-1959. It consists of a stuffed Angora goat with its midsection passing through an automobile tire. Critic Jorg von Uthmann described it as Rauschenberg's most famous work in the Huffington Post. In 1965, Pontus Hultén purchased the artwork for the collection of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.