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Title

Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican

Artist

Taddeo Zuccaro

Physical Description

This drawing depicts two addorsed female figures reclining on a triangular slope. The women are partly clothed, and the one on the left wears an elephant-shaped headpiece. Between their shoulders appears a blank escutcheon held by two putti. Nude men in the background strain to hold back piles of objects that include shields and spears.

Artist Life Dates

(1529 - 1566)

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1564

Accession Number

1966/1.93

Medium and Support

pen and brown ink with brown wash on buff paper

relevance

rank 0.95714

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Man with Apple Peeler, Virginia late 1930's / printed later

Artist

Arthur Rothstein

Physical Description

A black and white photograph of an older, bearded man with a large machine to peel apples. The man, wearing a straw hat, looks down at his hands as he works peeling the apple, whose skin hangs down in one long ribbon.

Artist Life Dates

1915 - 1985

Object Creation Date

circa 1930

Accession Number

2012/1.218

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95714

Secondary Keywords

accessories worn on the head

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Title

The Martyrdom of Sts. Valerian and Cecilia

Artist

Lorenzo Peracini

Artist Life Dates

18th century

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1970/2.52

Medium and Support

pen and black and brown ink with gray wash, laid down

relevance

rank 0.95688

Secondary Keywords

animals

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Title

Royal Attendant for a Buddhist Shrine (one of a pair)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Burma

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2005/1.448.2

Medium and Support

gilt and lacquered wood with glass and tin inlay

relevance

rank 0.95686

Secondary Keywords

aristocracy

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Title

Untitled

Artist

Sergio di Giusti

Physical Description

A sculpture with a man wrapped in cloths, covering his face. One arm is behind him, the other across his chest and is bare. The colors are reds, gold, blue and black paints. The sculpture has a base and it looks like a corner of a wall with the man standing on the end.

Object Creation Date

1980

Accession Number

2013/2.303

Medium and Support

bronze, wood, plaster, paint

relevance

rank 0.95681

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Jina and a devotee from a Digambara Jain manuscript

Artist

Artist Unknown, India

Physical Description

Nude (Jina, center) and a devotees (nude on left, and other clothed figures) depicted in a folio of a Jain manuscript.

The image contains trees, lotus flowers and dark clouds. The the colors are composed of vivid reds, browns, yellows, greens and blues. The image is surrounded by a red and green pattereed border which resembles a chain.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 18th century

Accession Number

1975/2.174

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 0.95558

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

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plant-derived motifs

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Title

Democritus in Meditation

Artist

Salvator Rosa

Physical Description

A bearded man sits in a cemetery upon a stone block and leans on a sarcophagus with his head in his hand. A book sits in his lap. Sarcophagi, obelisks, and funerary urns surround him. The bones and body parts of humans and animals along with a discarded helmet and books are strewn across the foreground.

Artist Life Dates

1615-1673

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1615-1673

Accession Number

1959/1.126

Medium and Support

etching with drypoint on laid paper

relevance

rank 0.95540

Secondary Keywords

animal material

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skeleton and skeleton components

skeleton components

Title

Krishna massaging the feet of Radha (a scene from the Gita Govinda?)

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills, Mankot School

Physical Description

Bold colors depict Krishna, one of human manifestations of the Hindu god Vishnu, is seated with a woman, Radha, above him. He touches her leg, and the tips of her hands and feet glow red. She sits erect and holds a large flower, looking straight off the left edge of the picture. The two are framed in an architectural structure.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1730

Accession Number

1979/1.160

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and beetle thorax casings on paper

relevance

rank 0.95500

Secondary Keywords

image form

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Title

Watching Geese

Artist

Chang Ku-nien

Physical Description

This landscape makes use of the wide range of tones possible from black ink and water. A man stands in a mountain clearing, gazing at geese in the distance. Calligraphic text is written vertically in the upper left corner.

Artist Life Dates

1906-1987

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

last quarter of 20th century

Accession Number

2006/1.124

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink on paper

relevance

rank 0.95382

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

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scroll paintings

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Title

Bar on the Beach, from "Galveston, Texas"

Artist

Danny Lyon

Physical Description

Interior of a room with mesh screened windows. On the wall is a pay phone, ont he table is an ashtray and a stuffed bird, with the wings raised. Two kids are in the other room, viewable through the screen.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1942

Object Creation Date

1967; printed 2010

Accession Number

2013/2.349

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95382

Secondary Keywords

building divisions

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components

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dwellings

exterior covered spaces

people

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residential structures

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single built works

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Title

Durante el Viaje...

Artist

Fernando Ramos Prida

Physical Description

This print shows an abstract human form with a large head. The features are created by brown striations and the figure is surrounded by a brownish background. There is a circular form in the upper right corner of the work.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1937

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

2010/2.34

Medium and Support

intaglio on paper

relevance

rank 0.95316

Secondary Keywords

european

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Title

Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in bhumisparsa mudra

Artist

Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal

Physical Description

A hollow cast bronze sculpture of the Buddha, including a lotus base. The bronze has a dark, shiny patina over most of its surface.

The Buddha sits with his legs crossed in the padmasana pose; his right hand reaches down, palm inwards, to touch the earth, in an elegant gesture with just the tip of his third finger making contact, while his right hand rests in his lap. His torso is tall and erect. His dhoti (a skirt-like garment) is tied high on his torso, while his outer robe covers his left shoulder completely and just brushes against his right shoulder. His face is shaped like a tall and narrow "U," with wide, gently arching brows, downcast eyes under swelling lids, a long and high nose, and full, cupid's-bow lips. The urna, an auspicious mark on his forehead, is indicated here by a small bump with an incised outline. His hair is arranged in rows of snail-shell curls, which are repeated in a larger size on his ushnisha, culminating in a lotus bud.

The upward-pointing lotus petals on the dais are in high relief, with curling tips.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1995/1.58

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 0.95313

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

Elephant Mask (mbap mteng)

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Bamileke Peoples, Cameroon

Physical Description

Face mask embroidered extensively wtih glass beads. Two long panels hang down the front and back of the wearer. Humanoid face at top has two round eye holes allowing the wearer to see, a strip of fabric for nose and open, upturned mouth. Ears are protruding disks attached on either side of the face . Top of the head is covered with small, corklike knobs covered with black cloth. The beadwork is predominantly green, with intricate, scallop-shaped patterns along edge of panels, and vertical, star-like patterns filling center of the panels. Interior of panels is lined with damask.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1950-1999

Accession Number

1997/1.319

Medium and Support

cloth, glass beads, fiber

relevance

rank 0.95306

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

aristocracy

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beads and sets of beads

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upper class

Title

Untitled, #78, from "Infanta Series"

Artist

Ralph Gibson

Physical Description

A side view of a nude woman with her left leg raised. Her body is against a wooden board and she is leaning forward.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1939

Object Creation Date

2011

Accession Number

2013/2.368

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95262

Secondary Keywords

image form

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Title

Untitled, #96, from "Infanta Series"

Artist

Ralph Gibson

Physical Description

A side view of a nude woman with one leg straight and the other bent back. She is leaning forward.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1939

Object Creation Date

2007

Accession Number

2013/2.370

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95262

Secondary Keywords

image form

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Title

Untitled, #47, from "Infanta Series"

Artist

Ralph Gibson

Physical Description

The rear view of a nude woman, lower back down. Her left leg is lifted and the right is straight. Her body is very overexposed and the background is very dark.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1939

Object Creation Date

2009

Accession Number

2013/2.365

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95262

Secondary Keywords

image form

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Title

Untitled, #56, from "Infanta Series"

Artist

Ralph Gibson

Physical Description

Bare leg and foot being outstretched towards the viewer. The background is very dark.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1939

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

2013/2.367

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95262

Secondary Keywords

image form

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Title

Untitled, #95, from "Infanta Series"

Artist

Ralph Gibson

Physical Description

A nude woman and an arched column. Her back is arched and she has her right hand on the column leaning into it.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1939

Object Creation Date

2008

Accession Number

2013/2.369

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95262

Secondary Keywords

image form

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Title

Untitled, #55, from "Infanta Series"

Artist

Ralph Gibson

Physical Description

A nude woman from the top of the chest to the knees leaning up against a wooden fence. The rustic fence is held together by tounge and groove joints.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1939

Object Creation Date

1994

Accession Number

2013/2.366

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95262

Secondary Keywords

image form

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Title

Dakini

Artist

Artist Unknown, Nepal

Physical Description

A small stone sculpture in bas-relief, depicting a tantric goddess. The back of the image is carved in a stylized petal shape, while the figure is crudely carved in relief on the front.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1983/1.111

Medium and Support

stone

relevance

rank 0.95205

Secondary Keywords

animal material

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asian

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Title

Japanese Beauty in a Red Maple Leaf Robe

Artist

Yamaguchi Soken (Sojun)

Physical Description

This image is of a lone female figure centrally located on the scroll. The dominate color of the image is red. The figure's outer kimono is decorated with red and gold maple leaves.

Artist Life Dates

1759-1818

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

early 19th century

Accession Number

1985/2.7

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and color on silk

relevance

rank 0.95204

Secondary Keywords

aesthetic concepts

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Title

Death of the Virgin (reverse copy after Schongauer)

Artist

Israhel Meckenem

Physical Description

A four-poster bed with curtains drawn back within an interior is angled towards the viewer, showing a woman reclined on the bed and attended by numerous figures. A lighted taper is placed in her hands, with assistance of a young man on the left side of the bed. Others of the figures stand or kneel with figures hands clasped in prayer; at the lower left corner are two men kneeling at the foot of the bead looking at a book of prayers. The overall effect is concern and movement around the still figure of the woman.

Artist Life Dates

d. 1503

Century

Late 15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1490-1500

Accession Number

1960/2.46

Medium and Support

engraving on fine off-white laid paper

relevance

rank 0.95111

Secondary Keywords

layout features

animals and creatures

candles and candleholders

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Title

Head of a bodhisattva

Artist

Saitô Kiyoshi

Artist Life Dates

(active 1907 - 1997)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1955

Accession Number

1959/2.4

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 0.95012

Secondary Keywords

image form

associated concepts

buddhist doctrinal concepts

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Title

Le Follet

Artist

Gabrielle Toudaesq

Physical Description

This colored engraving features two women in elaborate dress on a beach with a wavy ocean behind them. The woman on the left wears a blue dress accented with pink and a hat in the same colors. The woman on the right wears a beige dress accented in brown and white and a hat in the same colors decorated with flowers. She also holds a small parasol above her head. The women appear engaged in conversation as they both gesture with their hands. In the distance in the water on the right there are three ships. On the left in the distance a rock formation is depicted.

Object Creation Date

circa 1870

Accession Number

2012/2.203

Medium and Support

wood engraving with hand coloring on paper

relevance

rank 0.95012

Secondary Keywords

accessories worn on the head

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Title

La Mode élégante

Artist

V. Muchot

Physical Description

This colored engraving depicts two women in elaborate dress examining an illustration in an interior space. The woman on the left has her back turned to the viewer. She is wearing a dark green dress with an exaggerated bustle. Her head is topped with a green hat decorated with pink ribbons and flowers. She holds an image on paper, which both figures contemplate. The woman on the right is shown in profile and outfitted in a lavender dress that also features an exaggerated bustle. She wears a black hat decorated with lavender flowers and green leaves.

Object Creation Date

circa 1870

Accession Number

2012/2.202

Medium and Support

wood engraving with hand coloring on paper

relevance

rank 0.94914

Secondary Keywords

accessories worn on the head

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Title

White Mountains in September, North Conway, New Hampshire

Artist

Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon

Physical Description

Landscape with trees in foreground, valley in middle ground dotted with minute figures of sheep and a farmer with a team of oxen pulling well-filled haywain. Mountains in distance with a snow-capped mountain in center background.

Artist Life Dates

1830 - 1906

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1853

Accession Number

1895.57

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 0.94912

Secondary Keywords

downward

upward

americas

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Title

The Labors of Hercules: The Lernean Hydra (one of the set of 13 prints)

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1550

Accession Number

1956/1.64

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 0.94882

Secondary Keywords

allegory and literature

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Title

Markendeya purana series: Vishnu reclining on a serpent (Anantashayana), with other deities in attendance

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Northern Andhra Pradesh

Physical Description

The four-armed Vishnu is shown lying on the serpent Ananta (“the endless one”), resting on the surface of the cosmic ocean. As his female consort gently strokes his leg, Vishnu awakens from a long sleep. From his navel sprouts a lotus, bearing the four-headed creator god, Brahma, who will begin a new cycle of the universe.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

late 18th century

Accession Number

1980/2.305

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth

relevance

rank 0.94829

Secondary Keywords

animals

animals and creatures

descriptors

geography

hindu

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religions

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reptiles and amphibians

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the natural world

Title

Bodhisattva Tara (Tibetan, Jetsun Dolma)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal

Physical Description

A suberply cast hollow bronze figure of Tara, a Buddhist goddess, shown leated in the lalitasana pose ("royal ease," with one knee bent and the other relaxed), her right hand extended to her right knee in vara mudra (the gesture of charity), and her left hand in vitarka mudra (the gesture of teaching, with the thumb and third finger brought together). She wears a dhoti and jewelry, including an elaborate tiara and enormous lotus-petal design ear plugs. Her face has a broad, open forehead, with wide, slightly arching brows; her eyes are downcast with "s"-shaped upper lids; her nose is straight and long, and her mouth, in a curved Cupid's bow shape, is small but full. Her torso leans slightly to her left, which is balanced by the right tilt of her head. She sits on a double lotus dais with beaded upper and lower rims. The image and the base were case in one piece in the lost-wax method. There are traces of red paint for her mouth and blue paint for her hair.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1972/2.40

Medium and Support

gilt bronze with inlaid semi-precious stones and traces of polychrome

relevance

rank 0.94806

Secondary Keywords

asian

associated concepts

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descriptors

form attributes

people

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south asian

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Title

Emancipation Group

Artist

Thomas Ball

Physical Description

Bronze sculpture of a standing male figure his right hand holding a shield which rests upon a stack of book while his left arm is outstretched hovering over the crouching figure of an African American male figure.

Artist Life Dates

1819-1911

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1865

Accession Number

1895.13

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 0.94806

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Unidentified Buddhist Goddess with eight arms and three heads, with base

Artist

Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal

Physical Description

A miniature figure of a tantric goddess, very finely cast by the cire perdue (lost wax) method. The goddess is shown seated in lalitasana pose ("royal ease," one knee bent and the other relaxes) on a lotus dais, which is separately cast. She has 8 arms which are in variants of vitarka mudra (the gesture of teaching). She has three heads, with the two lateral heads seen here as partial profiles; each wears the five-petal tiara of Tibetan Buddhist ritual. Her skirt is unusual, looking to be made of leaves, instead of the usual dhoti. Her hair is painted blue and her lips red.

Accession Number

2006/2.64A&B

Medium and Support

copper? with blue paint for hair and red for lips

relevance

rank 0.94806

Secondary Keywords

asian

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Title

After Manet, from May Days Long Forgotten

Artist

Carrie Mae Weems

Physical Description

Black and white photograph in circular format depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1953

Century

21st century

Object Creation Date

2002

Accession Number

2004/2.3

Medium and Support

chromogenic color print on paper

relevance

rank 0.94726

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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descriptors

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Title

Buddha or Maitreya, seated in cross-legged pose, on dias with incised incense burner and figures of two donors

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

Late 6th century

Object Creation Date

late 6th century

Accession Number

1961/2.75

Medium and Support

gilt bronze

relevance

rank 0.94683

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Portrait of Princess Amelia, part of a series of portraits of King George III's Family

Artist

Anonymous

Physical Description

The Princess is seated at a desk covered with books. Her hands are resting on her knee and her foot rests on an ottoman. To the left behind her there are drapes and Windsor Castle can be seen through the window.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1810

Accession Number

2013/2.564.1

Medium and Support

pencil and wash on wove paper

relevance

rank 0.94654

Secondary Keywords

layout features

aristocracy

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fortifications

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Title

Boys Head

Artist

Isabel Bishop

Physical Description

This brown ink sketch is of a boy gazing to his right with his mouth and eyes slightly open. He wears a pointed hat that covers his forehead.

Artist Life Dates

1902-1988

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1934

Accession Number

2009/1.477

Medium and Support

ink

relevance

rank 0.94644

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

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Title

Baigneuse Assise

Artist

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Physical Description

Woven paper size: h 32 1/2cm x tw 24cm & bw 23 9/10cm. Laid paper size: h 21 9/10cm x w 13 3/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1841-1919

Accession Number

2008/2.416

Medium and Support

etching and soft-ground on cream laid paper

relevance

rank 0.94634

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

descriptors

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Title

Untitled [Two children with a snow shovel]

Artist

Saitô Kiyoshi

Physical Description

This print depicts two children in the snow with a snow shovel.

Artist Life Dates

(active 1907 - 1997)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

mid 20th century

Accession Number

1998/2.32

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 0.94602

Secondary Keywords

asia (continent)

associated concepts

construction equipment

earth sciences concepts

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equipment

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shovels

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visual works

visual works by subject type

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

youth

Title

Old Man and The Green Mountain (Ch'ing-shan lao-fu)

Artist

Shitao (Shih-t'ao)

Physical Description

An ink painting of a mountainscape with hills and abstract paths. Trees are depicted in darker shades, though most do not hold any detail. The image is in the lower half of the hanging scroll, and the upper half is covered with text. The image is entirely grey-scale.

Artist Life Dates

1642-1707

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1671-1707

Accession Number

1959/2.82

Medium and Support

ink on paper

relevance

rank 0.94596

Secondary Keywords

upward

buildings and the land

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

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landforms

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materials

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vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

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writing (processes)

Title

The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Gyôsho Edition): #40 Chiriu

Artist

Andô Hiroshige

Physical Description

Woodcut print. Title in a red rectangle in the upper right hand corner of the print. Colors are primarily greens and blues for the landscape and clothing, while the hats and straw mats are a faded yellow, and the trees are a solid brown.

Artist Life Dates

1797-1858

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1841-1842

Accession Number

1949/1.136

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 0.94583

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

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Title

Grand Interior View of a Courtesan House in the Yoshiwara District (Yoshiwara o-magaki no zu, one of pentaptych)

Artist

Katsushika Hokusai

Physical Description

A print of 15 women inside a building dressed in various kimono with the predominant colors being grey, red, black, and green. Some of the kimono also have orange coloring. The patterns and designs on the kimono vary from images of flowers to geometric designs. One male is kneeling towards the back and another man can be seen in the background leaving the room. Two women to the very back and left of the image appear to be adjusting their makeup. Three women to the front sit around a tea set (partially visable) and two women to their right are whispering to each other.

Artist Life Dates

1760 - 1849

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1811-1813

Accession Number

1938.3

Medium and Support

woodblock print on paper, ôban tate-e size

relevance

rank 0.94551

Secondary Keywords

building divisions

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prostitutes

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Title

Portrait of Zeretelli II

Artist

Max Beckmann

Physical Description

Print featuring the head of a Caucasian man with short dark hair. Text written along a diagonal in lower right.

Artist Life Dates

1884-1950

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1923

Accession Number

1949/1.185

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 0.94520

Secondary Keywords

european

european styles and periods

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objects we use

people

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visual works

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Title

Royal Elephant Mask (Bajoun)

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Bamileke

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

1997/1.305

Medium and Support

cloth with multi-colored beadwork

relevance

rank 0.94491

Secondary Keywords

african

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Title

Pope Sixtus IV (obverse), and the Ponte Sisto (reverse)

Artist

Lysippus

Physical Description

The front (obverse) of this medal depicts the profile portrait of a man with a tonsure, wearing a cope adorned with acorns and oak leaves and a large clasp. An inscription runs around the border. The reverse represents a bridge spanning a river enclosed within a border of oak leaves. An inscription appears above the balustrade of the bridge.

Artist Life Dates

active 1471-1484

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1473

Accession Number

1984/1.285

Medium and Support

cast bronze

relevance

rank 0.94460

Secondary Keywords

image form

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clergy

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descriptors

forming

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visual works

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Title

As Long as I Don't Have to Get Up Before 11:00

Artist

Mark Kostabi

Physical Description

Ink drawing on paper. Black wash ground, with two figures drawn in opaque black ink. A comic figure who is shirtless and in boxers, with his beer belly hanging out, and whose pointy rimmed hat is reminiscent of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, dances at the center of an ominous scene. His right leg has been kicked through a television set that he holds with his right hand. Scissors fall from his left hand towards what looks like a two-slot toaster. A black, horned beast lurks in the background, holding a phone overhead that has two earpieces, but no cradle. The scene is possibly set in a graveyard; the edifice silhouetting behind the scarecrow figure is shaped like a headstone.

Artist Life Dates

born 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1988

Accession Number

2008/2.240

Medium and Support

ink on paper

relevance

rank 0.94428

Secondary Keywords

layout features

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Title

Effigy Head

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Idoma

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1940

Accession Number

1982/2.61

Medium and Support

carved wood with paint

relevance

rank 0.94419

Secondary Keywords

african

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igbo region

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Title

Six-armed Bodhisattva Mañjusri, standing, with two celestial attendants

Artist

Artist Unknown, India

Physical Description

Mañjusri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, standing with two celestial attendants. This representation of Manjushri includes six arms, one of which holds a sword, while a narrow book (modeled after books made from palm leaves) lays across his upper hand. Manjushri is wearing an ornamented crown and necklace, and is encircled by a halo of flames.

Century

17th-18th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

1978/2.109

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 0.94419

Secondary Keywords

asian

associated concepts

buddhist doctrinal concepts

descriptors

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Title

Happy Couple

Artist

Mike Disfarmer

Physical Description

A seated couple seen from the waist up. He wears a short sleeve collared shirt and leans to his left, towards the woman. His left arm is around her back. She is to the viewer's right and wears a short sleeve button up shirt. Her arms are bent at the elbows and held in front of her.

Artist Life Dates

American, 1884 - 1959

Object Creation Date

circa 1940

Accession Number

2012/2.26

Medium and Support

vintage gelatin silver contact print on paper

relevance

rank 0.94321

Secondary Keywords

components and systems

descriptors

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objects we use

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Title

Vachere au Bord de l'Eau

Artist

Camille Pissarro

Physical Description

A woman sits at the left on a grassy bank looking at a group of cows standing in water. Behind are trees and a hill rising up in the distance.

Possible watermark at center left (of verso); image shows a fleur de lis over a triangle. Paper size: lh 26 2/5cm & rh 26 1/2cm x w 19 1/2cm. Plate size: lh 19 7/10cm & rh 19 9/10cm x w 13 2/5cm. Image size: lh 19 1/10cm & rh 19cm x tw 12 2/5cm & bw 12 1/2cm.

Artist Life Dates

1830-1903

Accession Number

2008/2.401

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint printed in brown/black ink on light blue laid paper

relevance

rank 0.94307

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

intaglio prints

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people

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Title

Mother and Children in Garden

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

Sticker added to front of the print stamped with the numbers "1345". Colors: green, blue, purple, peach, yellow. Paper size: lh 44 & rh 44 1/5cm x tw 61 2/5cm & bw 61 3/10cm. Plate & Image Size: lh 30 4/5cm & rh 30 3/5cm x tw 45 3/5cm & bw 45 2/5cm.

Accession Number

2008/2.442

Medium and Support

color etching, aquatint and soft-ground on Arches beige laid paper

relevance

rank 0.94293

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

buildings and the land

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

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intaglio prints

objects we use

open spaces

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parents

people

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printing and printing processes and techniques

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visual works

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youth

Title

Pumpkin Renee, from "Galveston, Texas"

Artist

Danny Lyon

Physical Description

An African American woman laying on a bed leaning against a wooden headboard. She has a blanket over her body with a record "Make Way for Dionne Warwick."

Artist Life Dates

b. 1942

Object Creation Date

1967; printed 2010

Accession Number

2013/2.350

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 0.94278

Secondary Keywords

building divisions

components

components and systems

components by specific context

furnishings

furnishings by form or function

furniture

furniture by form or function

objects we use

people

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rooms and spaces

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sleeping and reclining furniture

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