Objects Results for "international art"

(TR)1965.073.052.a - Collage

This bamboo and silk collage depicts the "Cathedral De Mexico." The central image is comprised of tiny bamboo-like sticks on a green silk square. The image depicts a church with trees in the front. There is one person and two trolleys also visible in the foreground. It is believed that this collage depicts the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, or the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, a cath...

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(TR)1965.073.052.b - Collage

This bamboo and silk collage depicts the "Castillo De Chapultepec Of Mexico," or the Chapultepec Castle, in Mexico City. The central image is comprised of small bamboo-like sticks on a green silk square. The image depicts an elaborate building with trees in the front. There are two people and two trolleys also visible in the foreground. The Chapultepec Castle is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is th...

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(TR)1965.073.058 - Vase

This tall Art Nouveau porcelain vase has all-over decorative slip trailing of birds and flowers. The birds appear to be peacocks or birds-of-paradise. The flowers appear to be tulip motifs. The background is glazed green-blue or teal. The slip trailing is glazed in light golds, yellows, oranges, pinks, and browns. This bright translucent glaze likely contains uranium, as the vase is radioactive. The yellow glaze glows in blacklight. Text on th...

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(TR)1965.073.084 - Painting

This is a framed painting on glass depicting a village in Japan on the sea or large body of water. The highlights on the painting are made using ground up shell, likely mother-of-pearl. There are human figure photographs added to the scene, including multiple women wearing kimonos and boats in the water. There are polychrome minka houses near the edge of the water.

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(TR)1965.899 - Painting

This untitled painting by Gaston Bouy depicts a bowl of flowers on wood. The flowers are orange, red, burgundy, pink, and gold zinnias. A few petals have fallen onto the plain background. The container appears to be a low copper bowl with handles and small feet. The painting substrate is a thin wood oval.

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1966.018.001.a - Sculpture

This bronze bas-relief sculpture depicts the profile of masculine figure from the shoulders up. The figure wears an ornate breastplate and helmet. The helmet is winged at the back, and across the length of the tip are draconic figures. On the breastplate is a winged figure at the front of his chest, and another draconic creature going over his shoulder. This figure is most likely Perseus, a hero of Greek myth, who slayed the gorgon Medusa and is ...

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1966.018.001.b - Sculpture

This bronze relief sculpture depicts a powerful, feminine profile from the shoulders up. The figure is wearing an ornate helmet and breastplate. The helmet is lined with laurels and two Pegasi on top. Beneath the Pegasi is a plume-like object. The breastplate is scaled, lined with snakes, and depicts an open-mouthed figure with snake hair. This figure is most likely Athena/Minerva, the Greek and roman goddess of wisdom, war, and civilization. The...

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1966.030 - Print

"Hamburg Public House." Black ink soft ground etching of a room with two windows. Two people are dancing on the left side of the room. A person is standing next to a table with chairs on the right side of the room. People are sitting in the background as well.

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1966.031 - Print

"Le Dindon" (The Turkey) from the Buffon Series, original Etching #194/225 stock number 44-I-19. This print is one of a series of 31 illustrations, considered to be among Picasso's most important graphic productions. The Buffon Series was created in 1936 for an edition of excerpts from "Natural History, General and Particular," written by the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, in the eighteenth century. Following the tra...

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1966.034 - Leaf

This is a leaf from a late medieval/early Renaissance illuminated manuscript, specifically a special notice of St. Martin of Tours in Calendosa from a book of hours. The leaf is a single page with two sides, upon each of which are twelve lines of Latin in blackletter Gothic script. The first letter of each individual sentence is illuminated with blue and red paint and gold-leaf lettering as well as occasional decorative illumination within the li...

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1967.005 - Painting

This painting entitled "Winter" by John Kehoe depicts a minimal landscape. The ground appears in bright yellows fading into green, gray, and dark brown in the background. The sky is light grays.

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1968.002 - Print

This black and white ink print on paper titled "Iconography" by Sir Anthony van Dyck depicts an etched portrait of Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy in armor carrying a baton. He is shown in contemporary military regalia, wearing around his neck the collar badge of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, which depicts the Annunciation by the archangel Gabriel to Mary. The caption beneath the image reads: "Carolvs Emmanvel Dvx Sabavdiae...

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1968.003 - Print

This print entitled "St. Basile célébrant le sacrifice de la messe" (St. Basil Celebrating the Sacrifice of the Mass [The Celebration of the Holy Mysteries]) is plate 12 from "Les Tableaux de Rome, Les Eglises Jubilaires" (Pictures of Rome, The Churches of Jubilee) by Jacques Callot. It depicts a religious ceremony from the 4th century lead by Basil of Caesarea. The image has an embossed border in the shape of an arch, like the structure of a chu...

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1968.005 - Print

This color lithograph titled "Vers Franconville" by Maurice Utrillo depicts a loosely drawn street scene with five figurines walking down the road, buildings, and trees. This print is number #4/200. Maurice Utrillo was a French painter of the School of Paris. He specialized in cityscapes. Utrillo is from the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France.

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1968.008 - Print

This etching by Suzanne Valadon is titled "Catherine au Tub, Vernis More, 1895" (edition 31 of 75). This black and white print features a nude feminine figure bathing in a small tub. Suzanne Valadon was a French painter and artists' model born Marie-Clementine Valadon at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. You can read more about Suzanne Valadon by clicking on her name below.

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1969.004.001 - Sculpture

This sculpture is a feminine fertility figure, likely representing Astarte, a goddess of war, beauty, and hunting in Syro-Hittite and associated Mesopotamian cultures. The goddess's hands are held at her breasts. She is wearing a three-dimensional necklace and a rounded headdress, but she is flat along her backside. Her legs taper down until they almost reach a point. There is a large divot in her abdomen that may represent her navel. Her head is...

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1969.004.002 - Sculpture

This sculpture is a female fertility figure, likely the goddess Astarte of war and sexual love. Its tapered arms extend from side to side. It wears a wide necklace, a narrow girdle, and a squared headdress. A hole in the front torso represents the navel. The head has two large round eyes with divots, similar to a bird. The sculpture is of Syro-Hittite origin from 1500-1800 B.C.

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1969.004.003 - Sculpture

This sculpture is a female fertility figure, likely the goddess Astarte of war and sexual love. It wears a triple necklace, crossed lines on the body, and a double girdle. The sculpture's legs narrow down to a point. The arms extend from side to side and taper. There is a divot in the abdomen. There are four holes in the headdress. There is a disc on its forehead. The sculpture is of Syro-Hittite origin from 1500-1800 B.C.

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1969.006 - Painting

"From Another Planet" is a painting by the Argentinian surrealist artist Victor Chab. It was purchased for the Reece Museum in 1969 for an exhibition focused on Latin American paintings. The central image of this painting is an abstract figure comprised of several irregular shapes. The uppermost and bottommost shapes of the figure are primarily black, while the middle shapes are shades of white, brown, and beige. The figure is surrounded by a bro...

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1969.008 - Painting

"Viajeros do Desconocido," or "Travelers of the Unknown," is a painting by Argentinian artist Osvaldo Borda.

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1969.009 - Painting

"Petrificacion de la Espera," or "Petrification of the Sphere," is a painting by the Cuban-born Chilean artist Mario Carreño Morales (1913-1999).

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1969.010 - Painting

"¿¿Le Gustaría a ud Escribir sus Memorias??", or "Would You Like to Write Your Memoirs?", is a painting by Chilean artist Rodolfo Opazo. The central image of this surrealist painting is four white-gray heads inside of a brown box or cabine...

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1969.011 - Painting

This painting's title translates to "Cupboard of Souvenirs." It is an excellent and well-preserved example of Colombian Neo-Figurative Art. The central image of the painting is a male figure leaning against a cupboard. The male has black hair and is wearing a black shirt with a white collar, appearing priest-like, especially because he is holding a necklace with a cross in his right hand, which is draped over the top of the cupboard. The cupboard...

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1969.016 - Print

This print is titled "La Femme Aux Figues." The central image depicts a seated or kneeling woman. She has short, dark hair and is wearing a long-sleeved dress. She is sitting behind a table or similar surface. A bowl is positioned on the surface, in addition to a cloth and four pear-like objects in the center. There is a landscape containing a house and trees, a lake, a boat, and a hill in the background near the upper right corner. It appears as...

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1971.010 - Print

This black and white print entitled "Le Chat Et Les Fleurs (The Cat and the Flowers)" by Édouard Manet depicts the front half of a cat looking towards a pot with short legs which contains flowers. Print is now in a frame.

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1971.012 - Print

"Voici la Bonne-Déesse, l'Ideenne des montagnes (Here is the Good Goddess, the Idaean mother of the mountains)" shows a figure in the foregrounds with cliffs in the background and what appears to be a halo around the figure's head. This piece is a print from the series "La Tentation De Saint Antoine" (The Temptation of Saint Anthony) based on the novel of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. The scene depicted is from a chapter of the text calle...

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1974.004.002 - Print

This is a page of two untitled lithographic prints. The top print depicts human figures, possibly sitting. The bottom print depicts a city-scape with two carriages in the road. The shapes in both prints are formed by black dots.

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1974.004.003 - Print

The print entitled "The Punt" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler depicts a masculine figure in the right foreground standing on a punt, a small flat-bottomed boat. The figure holds a punt pole for steering and pushing off the bottom. The image is black and white and formed of lines. "J. Whistler" and "The Angler" is written in pencil in the bottom left corner on the border of the image. The number "661714" is written in the bottom right corner....

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1974.004.004 - Print

This lithographic print entitled "Girl with Bowl" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler depicts a nude feminine figure holding a bowl in both hands while partially shrouded in a transparent robe or gown. The figure is made of sketched lines. To the right of the figure is Whistler's signature, a stylized butterfly with a long scorpion-like tail. ...

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1974.004.005 - Print

This lithographic print called "Sketching, No. 1" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler depicts a representational lake scene with a masculine figure sitting in the right foreground, apparently drawing. A couple of figures are rowing down the river in the center of the print. A house or building appears in the left center. The scene is made of sketched lines. The text "PL 45" is printed in the top right corner of the image. "London, Published De...

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