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Title

Conversation under the Statue, Luxembourg Gardens

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

In the lower left corner, two women are seen seated out of doors conversing in a park-like setting. In the middle distance is a large sculpture on a raised pedestal. Grouped around the sculpture are other small gatherings of people in conversation. Behind the figures and sculpture is the loose indication of trees.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1893

Accession Number

1954/1.438

Medium and Support

transfer lithograph with stumping on laid paper

relevance

rank 4.85750

Primary Keywords

armies

army

chairs

figures

gardens

paris

paris (inhabited place)

seated

sitting

st. jerome

statue

statues

woman

women

Title

Ancestor figure (female in Manda style)

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa

Physical Description

Carved wooden figure of a human. The torso, neck and head make an elongated cylinder along the certical axis. The hands rest at its sides near the umbilicus. The hair, face, hands, genitals, and feet are detailed.

Object Creation Date

circa 1920

Accession Number

1987/1.157.1

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 4.83142

Primary Keywords

ancestor figures

females

figures

figures (representations)

nudes

standing

tabwa

women

Title

Ancestor figure (female in Manda style)

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa

Physical Description

Carved wooden figure of a human. The torso, neck and head make an elongated cylinder along the certical axis. The hands rest at its sides near the umbilicus. The hair, face, hands, genitals, and feet are detailed.

Object Creation Date

circa 1920

Accession Number

1987/1.157.2

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 4.83142

Primary Keywords

ancestor figures

females

figures

figures (representations)

nudes

standing

tabwa

women

Title

Female half-figure

Artist

African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1925

Accession Number

1986/2.108

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 4.80005

Primary Keywords

females

figures

figures (representations)

fragment

half figures

tabwa

women

Title

Manet's Olympia

Artist

Mel Ramos

Physical Description

A female nude reclining on a bed wearing one yellow slipper on her left foot, a gold bracelet on her right arm and a black ribbon tied in a bow around her neck. An African American woman in a blue dress stands behind her holding a bouquet of yellow and white flowers. A small monkey sits at the foot of the bed. All subjects look directly at the viewer.

Artist Life Dates

born 1935

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1974

Accession Number

1991/2.102.1

Medium and Support

collotype on wove paper

relevance

rank 4.75112

Primary Keywords

african american

appropriation

baby

beauty

eroticism

figures

figures (representations)

flowers (plants)

lovers

monkeys

nudes

pop art

portraits

prostitutes

realism

women

Title

Ups and Downs

Artist

Tyree Guyton

Physical Description

Two abstracted bust-length figures, one male and one female, look directly at the viewer with large smiles against a tan background filled with swirling lines and scribbles. The face and eyes of each figure are outlined in thick green, the mouths in thick yellow. The “whites” of the eyes are red, while the pupils are circles of pale purple. From the eyes of the male figure, purple paint drips down his checks; in the female figure, the paint drips upwards.

Artist Life Dates

born 8/24/1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1994

Accession Number

2002/1.202

Medium and Support

acrylic on masonite

relevance

rank 4.72635

Primary Keywords

abstract

african american

figures

figures (representations)

folk art

men

outsider art

women

Title

Sous la Teete, Sur la Plage

Artist

Jacques Villon

Physical Description

Colors: pink, orange, blue, red, green, yellow. Small tear at plate line on upper left. Upper right corner previously folded under. Rip on upper right edge of paper, with corresponding tear on left edge. Paper size: lh 55 2/5cm & rh 55 3/5cm x w 75 4/5cm. Plate size: lh 46 1/2cm & rh 46 3/5cm x tw 57 4/5cm & bw 58cm. Image size: lh 44 1/5cm & rh 45 4/5cm x tw 57cm & bw 56 4/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1875-1963

Accession Number

2008/2.397

Medium and Support

color aquatint on heavy beige wove paper

relevance

rank 4.68469

Primary Keywords

beaches

etching (printing process)

etchings

lift-ground

men

paris (inhabited place)

soft-ground etching

suits, bathing

women

Title

Colored

Artist

Betye Saar

Physical Description

Assemblage of found objects: salvaged wood frame, four portrait photographs of African American females, nine thread samples, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer's right of the frame.

Artist Life Dates

born 1926

Century

21st century

Object Creation Date

2002

Accession Number

2003/1.406

Medium and Support

mixed media assemblage with hand mirror

relevance

rank 4.66385

Primary Keywords

african american

assemblage (sculpture technique)

assemblages (sculpture)

black-and-white photographs

found objects

photographs

portrait photography

vintage prints

women

Title

Descent of the River Ganges

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Bundelkhand

Physical Description

In this intensely lyrical painting from Bundelkhand in Central India, the great river is shown tumbling from the night sky. Ascetics sit cross-legged on the mountainside, offering their austerities to Shiva, while women come to venerate Ganga. The river teems with life—crocodiles, turtles, fish, and birds—while lions, leopards, jackals, monkeys, and rabbits cavort on its banks.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1775

Accession Number

1979/1.148

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 4.65527

Primary Keywords

album leaf

animals

ascetic

birds

deity

figures

lions

monk

monks

night

nudes

painting

river

river banks

river bed

rivers

seated

women

Title

Mama

Artist

Joseph Nechvatal

Physical Description

Dense line drawing on orange-tinted paper.

Artist Life Dates

(1951 - )

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1984

Accession Number

2008/2.247

Medium and Support

graphite and orange tint on paper

relevance

rank 4.56383

Primary Keywords

abstract

abstract imagist

drawing (image-making)

drawing and drawing techniques

line drawings

nudes

women

Title

Proserpine

Artist

Hiram Powers

Physical Description

Bust-length white marble sculpture of a young female figure crowned with a plait of wheat and framed along the bottom with a wreath of sculpted acanthus leaves.

Artist Life Dates

1805 - 1873

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

second version: modeled 1844; cut 1847

Accession Number

1991/2.40

Medium and Support

Seravezza marble

relevance

rank 4.49457

Primary Keywords

bust

bust-length

busts

classical

figures (representations)

legendary figures

marble

mythology

mythology (literary genre)

neoclassical

sculpture

woman

women

Title

Trixie (Mrs. Beatrice Whistler)

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

A seated woman in late 19th c. dress is shown against an undescribed dark background; she looks directly at the viewer and rests her chin on her right hand. At the lower left is a flower-like form that is the artist's "butterfly" signature.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1892-1894

Accession Number

1954/1.411

Medium and Support

drypoint, printed in dark brown ink on laid paper

relevance

rank 4.48941

Primary Keywords

figures

figures (representations)

half figures

half-length

seated

sitting

woman

women

Title

Danseuse sur la Scene Saluant

Artist

Edgar Degas

Physical Description

Paper size: lh 25 9/10cm & rh 26 1/10cm x tw 20cm & bw 19 3/10cm. Plate size: lh 16 3/5cm & rh 16 1/10cm x tw 11 4/5cm & bw 11 9/10cm. Image size: h 13 1/5cm x w 8cm.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1917

Accession Number

2008/2.435

Medium and Support

softground etching, aquatint and drypoint on ARCHES beige laid paper

relevance

rank 4.41708

Primary Keywords

aquatint

dancers

drypoint (printing process)

etching (printing process)

soft-ground etching

women

Title

Study for the Collectors

Artist

Will Barnet

Physical Description

Study for a portrait of the Vogels, with Herbert in the foreground and Dorothy visible behind him to the left. Line drawing in pencil with erasure marks. The portrait is sketched out in a square drawn on the sheet, and signed in the lower right corner. Notes to himself include: “Dot & Herb position?” (lower left corner), “proportion & lining up of the chins, eyes” (upper right corner).

Artist Life Dates

1911-2012

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1977

Accession Number

2008/2.220

Medium and Support

pencil on paper

relevance

rank 4.31944

Primary Keywords

couples

double portraits

drawings by technique

husbands

life drawings

men

portraits

preliminary sketches

preparatory drawings

profiles (figures)

sketches

wives

women

working drawings

Title

Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii

Artist

Randolph Rogers

Physical Description

A white marble statue of a young female figure, leaning forward holding a staff with eyes closed, her left hand held up to her right ear. A flowing, wind-swept garment drapes the figure. On the base to the left of the figure is a broken capital of a Corinthian column lying on its side.

Artist Life Dates

1825-1892

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1861

Accession Number

1862.1

Medium and Support

Carrara marble

relevance

rank 4.29448

Primary Keywords

allegory

blind

blind (people)

capitals

corinthian (architectural style)

figures (representations)

girl

girls

marble

mythology (literary genre)

neoclassical

nydia

pompeii

pompeii (deserted settlement)

sculpture

staff

staffs (walking sticks)

standing

statues

stone

women