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The Motherland Calls (Родина-мать зовёт!)

The Motherland Calls (Родина-мать зовёт!) is an 85-metre reinforced-concrete statue by Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin on Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, opened 15 October 1967; tallest statue in the world at completion, center of the Battle of Stalingrad memorial.

The Music Lesson

The Music Lesson, also called Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman, is a painting by Johannes Vermeer, made around 1662 to 1665 and held in the Royal Collection.

The Night Café

The Night Café (Le café de nuit) is an oil painting Vincent van Gogh made in September 1888 in Arles, France, showing the interior of the Café de la Gare.

The Night Revels of Han Xizai

The Night Revels of Han Xizai (韩熙载夜宴图) is a celebrated Chinese figure-painting handscroll attributed to Gu Hongzhong, depicting minister Han Xizai at a night banquet in five scenes.

The Night Watch

The Night Watch (De Nachtwacht) is Rembrandt's 1642 Amsterdam militia group portrait of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq's company, trimmed in 1715, attacked in 1911, 1975 and 1990, and under restoration since 2019.

The Nightmare

The Nightmare (1781) is Henry Fuseli's oil painting of a sleeping woman visited by an incubus and a horse, first shown at the Royal Academy in 1782, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, and an icon of Gothic and Romantic art.

The North American Iceberg

The North American Iceberg is a 1985 mixed-media work by Anishinaabe artist Carl Beam, the first Indigenous artwork bought by the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art.

The North American Indian

The North American Indian is a twenty-volume illustrated ethnographic survey of Native American peoples, written and published by photographer Edward S. Curtis between 1907 and 1930.

The North American Indian Photogravures

The North American Indian photogravures are the 2,228 copperplate intaglio prints illustrating Edward S. Curtis's twenty-volume ethnographic work documenting more than eighty Native American tribes, published between 1907 and 1930.

The Noun Project

The Noun Project, founded 2011 by Edward Boatman, Sofya Polyakov, and Scott Thomas, is a crowdsourced icon and photo library of nearly 10 million human-made icons, licensed under CC BY 3.0, Public Domain, or paid royalty-free terms, paying creators 60% of single-purchase revenue.

The Old Guitarist

The Old Guitarist is Pablo Picasso's late 1903–early 1904 Blue Period oil on panel of a blind, emaciated musician, in the Art Institute of Chicago since 1926, with two hidden paintings beneath the surface and conservation planned under a 2026 grant.

The Order (comics)

The Order (comics): Marvel's 2007-2008 series by Matt Fraction and Barry Kitson, originally solicited as The Champions; a 50-State Initiative California superhero team with one-year manufactured powers, canceled after 10 issues.

The Oxbow

The Oxbow is an 1836 landscape painting by Thomas Cole showing the Connecticut River from Mount Holyoke after a thunderstorm, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The paintings of Bhupen Khakhar

The paintings of Bhupen Khakhar are the work of a self-taught Indian painter, from Pop collages of deities and shopkeepers to openly confessional images of homosexual love.

The paintings of Binode Behari Mukherjee

The paintings of Binode Behari Mukherjee (1904–1980) are the works of a leading Indian modernist painter and teacher at Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, famed for his murals.

The paintings of Francis Newton Souza

The paintings of Francis Newton Souza are oils, drawings, and mixed-media works of a Goan-born Indian modernist known for thick black outlines and distorted figures.

The paintings of Gaganendranath Tagore

The paintings of Gaganendranath Tagore are the watercolors, caricatures, and semi-abstract cubist-influenced works of an Indian artist of Kolkata's Jorasanko Tagore family, painted from about 1905 to 1930.

The paintings of K.G. Subramanyan

The paintings of K.G. Subramanyan (1924–2016) are narrative figurative works by a central figure of modern Indian art, blending myth with everyday life across six decades in oil, watercolor, and reverse painting on glass.

The paintings of Rabindranath Tagore

The paintings of Rabindranath Tagore are several thousand untitled drawings, ink paintings, and watercolors made by the Bengali Nobel laureate after he took up art in his sixties.

The paintings of S.H. Raza

The paintings of S.H. Raza are the work of an Indian modernist who moved from expressionist landscape to geometric abstraction built around the bindu, a dot symbolizing creation.

The paintings of Tyeb Mehta

The paintings of Tyeb Mehta (1925–2009) are works by an Indian modernist painter built around recurring motifs, including the trussed bull, falling figure, and Mahishasura, arranged with a signature diagonal line.

The Passage of the Delaware

The Passage of the Delaware is an 1819 oil painting by Thomas Sully showing George Washington directing the Continental Army's crossing of the Delaware in 1776.

The Passing of Shah Jahan

The Passing of Shah Jahan is a 1902 painting by Abanindranath Tagore depicting the imprisoned Mughal emperor on his deathbed gazing at the Taj Mahal.

The Peaceable Kingdom

The Peaceable Kingdom is a series of over sixty oil paintings by Edward Hicks, a Quaker minister who painted Isaiah's prophecy of peace from about 1820 to 1849.

The Persistence of Memory

The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) is Salvador Dalí's 1931 Surrealist oil of melting watches, 24.1 x 33 cm, at MoMA New York since 1934, famous for soft clocks, ants, and its Catalan cliffs.

The Phantom

The Phantom (Kit Walker) is Lee Falk's 1936 King Features comic strip, the first costumed comic-strip superhero, predating Superman; still syndicated, with Frew, Team Fantomen, and Mad Cave editions.

The photographic work of Raghubir Singh

The photographic work of Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) is color street and documentary photography of India, made over three decades with a handheld 35 mm camera and color slide film.

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is a 1991 installation by Damien Hirst, a tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde, first exhibited in 1992.

The Pilgrimage to Cythera

The Pilgrimage to Cythera (Pèlerinage à l'île de Cythère) is a 1717 oil painting by Watteau showing elegant couples on the island of Venus, hanging in the Louvre.

The Pond—Moonlight

The Pond—Moonlight is a 1904 photograph by Edward Steichen showing moonlight on a pond with reflected trees at Mamaroneck, New York; a print sold for $2,928,000 in 2006, then an auction record for a photograph.