Mesopotamian
Tablet with Pictographic Writing
c. 3000 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Mesopotamian
Technique: Cuneiform Writing

Egyptian
The Theban Monarchy, c. 1525-1514 BC

Egyptian
Trading with New Kingdom Egypt, c. 1500-1300 BC

American
Trylon and Perisphere, 1939 New York World's Fair
1939

Roman
Two Huddled Bodies from the House of the Cryptoporticus, Pompeii
79 (cast made 2003), Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompeii, Pompeii

Egyptian
Valley of the Kings
Luxor

French
View of Paris from the Roof of the Opera (Haussamanization of Paris)
c. 1870

American
View of Wilshire and Fairfax Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1922
1922, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

American
View of Wilshire and Fairfax Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1930
1930, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Russian
Vladimir Tatlin and his Assistants Working on the Model for the Monument to the Third Communist International
1920, Punin Archive, St. Petersburg

American
What Makes the California Look, Los Angeles Times Home Magazine
1951, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Whistler in his studio with Portrait of Maud Franklin
c. 1886, Glasgow University Library

Whistler seated
c. 1886, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Fra Angelico [Italian, c. 1395 – c. 1455]
Reconstruction of the Santa Lucia Altarpiece
c. 1429-1430

Alfred H. Barr Jr. [American, 1902 – 1981]
Cover of the Catalogue for the Exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art
1936, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Clare Briggs [American, 1875 – 1930]
Armory Show Cartoon: The Original Cubist
1913, New York Public Library

Lucas Cranach the elder [German, 1472 – 1553]
Six Cranach signatures from 1526
1526

Jean Delagrive [French, 1689 – 1757]
Historic Houses of Old Paris
19th Century, private collection

Philip Henry Delamotte [English, 1820 – 1889]
Egyptian Court at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
1854, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Philip Henry Delamotte [English, 1820 – 1889]
The Nave of the Crystal Palace from the Great Gallery
1856, private collection

Philip Henry Delamotte [English, 1820 – 1889]
Negative of the Interior of the Crystal Palace
1851-1852, Gernsheim Collection, Austin

Philip Henry Delamotte [English, 1820 – 1889]
Upper Gallery of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham
1854, Gernsheim Collection, Austin

Christine Frederick [American, 1883 – 1970]
Kitchen Arrangement Diagrams from The New Housekeeping
1912, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Friedrich Froebel [German, 1782 – 1852]
Froebel Educational Blocks
19th Century

Norman Bel Geddes [American, 1893 – 1958]
Visitors Viewing Futurama Exhibit
1939

Edward William Godwin [English, 1833 – 1886]
Costumes and Props for Hamlet
c. 1874-1886, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Edward William Godwin [English, 1833 – 1886]
Design for a Drawing Room, from William Watt's Art Furniture
1877, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach

Edward William Godwin [English, 1833 – 1886]
Design for Dining Room Sideboard and Wall Decoration, Dromore Castle
c. 1869, Royal Institute of British Architects, London

Jan Grevembroch [Italian, active century]
Venetian Trades: the Pile-Driver
18th Century, Museo Civico Correr, Venice

J.F. Griswold [American, first active 1913]
The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway), from the New York Evening Sun, March 20, 1913
1913, New York Public Library

Walter Gropius [German, 1883 – 1969]
Schematic Presentation of the Bauhaus Curriculum
1922, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin

Hilaire Guesnu [French, 1820 – 1868]
Map of Paris during the Grands Travaux of Baron Haussmann
1864, Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris

Attributed to Hadrian, Emperor of Rome [Roman, active 117 (start of reign), died 138]
Hadrian's Villa
c. 118-138, Tivoli

Robert John Hammond [English, active 1879 – 1911]
Drawing-Room in Highgate from The Electric Light in our Homes
c. 1884, Geffrye Museum of the Home, London

Frederick John Kiesler [American, 1890 – 1965]
The Surrealist Gallery at Art of this Century
1942

George Maciunas [American, 1931 – 1978] and others
Fluxkit
1964-1965, private collection

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe [German, 1886 – 1969]
Fifty by Fifty foot Housing Project
1950-1951

Isamu Noguchi [American, 1904 – 1988]
Martha Graham in Cave of the Heart
1946

Harvey Peake [American, first active c. 1904]
Armory Show Cartoon: Why Not Let the Cubists and Futurists Design the Spring Fashions?
1913, American Newspaper Repository, Durham

Jacob Riis [American, 1849 – 1914]
Bandit's Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street
c. 1888, Museum of the City of New York

Philipp Otto Runge [German, 1777 – 1810]
Color Harmonies
1809, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Eero Saarinen [Finnish, 1910 – 1961]
Chicago Tribune Building, Competition Entry
1922

Alek Sass [English, 1877 – 1922]
Armory Show Cartoon: Nobody Who Has Been Drinking Is Let in to See This Show
1913, New York Public Library

Georg Schödl [German, active c. 1930 – c. 1940]
The Dada Wall in Room 3 in the Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst) Exhibition
1937, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Georg Schödl [German, active c. 1930 – c. 1940]
Room 3 in the Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst) Exhibition
1937, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Robert Sennecke [German, 1885 – 1940]
Opening of the First International Dada Fair Held at the Otto Burchard Gallery, Berlin
1920, Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin

Robert Sennecke [German, 1885 – 1940]
Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Höch at the Opening of the First International Dada Fair
1920, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

Charles A. Voight [American, c. 1887 – 1947]
Armory Show Cartoon: Who Said Anything Against Futurists?
1913, New York Public Library