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Title
Untitled (Blue)
Artist
Gordon Newton
Physical Description
A multitude of geometric shapes in blue and white, mostly triangles and rectangles.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1948
Object Creation Date
1974
Accession Number
2013/2.316
Medium and Support
blue crayon on paper
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
rectangles
triangles (polygons)
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Tan with light beige and dark brown diamond design. Edges are hemmed in tan.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.93
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
Title
White celadon bowl with incised diamond pattern
Artist
Takuo Katô
Physical Description
The large white bowl is round with a wide rim and a narrow bottom; almost like an up-side-down cone shape. Diamond patterns are stamped around the middle of the body. It has no foot. The rim is slightly warped.
Artist Life Dates
1917-2005
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960
Accession Number
1963/2.68
Medium and Support
Porcelain with white celadon glaze
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Primary Keywords
bowl (vessel)
geometric patterns
lozenges
Title
Goldweight in a geometric shape
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Semi-circular goldweight with horizontally incised rays.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.478
Medium and Support
brass
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Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
ghana (nation)
sun
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Gold and tan in color, interlocking diamond shapes with grass fringe on the sides.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.86
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
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Title
Delphic Sun Box
Artist
Theodoros Stamos
Artist Life Dates
1922 - 1997
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1965-1967
Accession Number
1983/1.219
Medium and Support
sreenprint on paper
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Primary Keywords
abstraction
boxes (containers)
geometric shapes
Title
Goldweight
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a solid pyramid, with a small piece of rope attached to the hole on top.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.403
Medium and Support
brass
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Primary Keywords
ghana (nation)
pyramids (geometric figures)
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Varying diamond and triangle patterns in tan and brown. Hemmed edge.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.95
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
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Title
Sabotage
Artist
Marian Spore Bush
Physical Description
Black, tan and white, industrial buldings with steam coming out of the smoke stacks. The steam is in the formation of a snake moving through the painting.
Artist Life Dates
1878-1946
Object Creation Date
late 1930s
Accession Number
2014/2.198
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Primary Keywords
architecture (object genre)
geometric
snakes
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Tan and dark brown design in four separate squares - interconnected forms, smaller horizontal diamonds, medium sized diamonds and large diamonds.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.88
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Dark tan chevron stripes on a light tan background. The lighter tan is textured and is in a notched "V" pattern.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.81
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
Title
Black kimono with overall shibori design of alternating diagonal columns of rectangular blocks of patterns against black ground
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
White plain-weave with overall black tie-dye design (black acid dye) in hitta kanoko. The pattern consists of rectangular blocks of densely-packed tie-dye knots in rows of 5 x 12. Lining is plain weave white silk with bokashi blue borders.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1950s-1970s
Accession Number
2005/1.361
Medium and Support
white silk with black tie-dye design
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Primary Keywords
geometric designs
kimono
tie-dyed
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Tan squares with interlocking multiple sized triangles. The edges are tan and hemmed.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.90
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
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Title
White Line Square XII (Series II)
Artist
Josef Albers
Physical Description
Squares in progressing sizes and shades of orange
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Object Creation Date
1966
Accession Number
2011/1.119
Medium and Support
three color alumninum plate lithographs on hand cut Arches cover paper
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Primary Keywords
abstract
geometric abstraction
squares, art
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Dark brown rectangled with two rounded edges on one end. Interlocing triangles of tan and brown. Textured and braided designs.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.83
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Background is dark brown and over the top is a large interlocking square pattern with smaller squares. The insides of the larger squares are half dark brown and half tan.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.92
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Back in tan in color and textured with dark brown and lighter brown diamnd shapes. There are four sections and a long brown running stripe. All the edges are hemmed.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.85
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
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Title
Circle, Square, and Circle
Artist
Jeanne Patterson Miles
Artist Life Dates
1908-1999
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1987
Accession Number
1988/2.4.26
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
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Primary Keywords
abstraction
circles
geometric shapes
squares
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Title
Crystal two-pyramid lid
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
A two-bottle inkwell shaped to look like two square pyramids.
Object Creation Date
1875-1975
Accession Number
2010/1.261
Medium and Support
glass, metal
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Primary Keywords
glass
inkwell
pyramid (geometric figure)
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Interlocking diamonds in beige and off-white. Tan hemmed edges.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.94
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
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Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Tan background with dark brown and white trimmed diamond pattern throughout. The sides are all hemmed with a tan fabric.
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
2014/2.87
Medium and Support
raffia and pile cloth
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
raffiawork
textile components
Title
Palm Wine Drinking Horn
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Buffalo horn with concentric circles, geometric shapes and beadlike bands carved in relief follow the natural contours of the horn to its pointed tip. Has a local repair—a metal suture sewn at the mouth to stabilize a crack. Has cord pierced through tip.
Century
late 18th - early 19th century
Object Creation Date
1800-1850
Accession Number
2005/1.209
Medium and Support
buffalo horn
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Primary Keywords
drinking horns
geometric motifs
prestige
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Title
Thoughts in a Kibbutz, from "Expedition to the Holyland"
Artist
A.R. Penck
Artist Life Dates
born 1939
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1983
Accession Number
1984/2.2.1
Medium and Support
drypoint on Arches vellum paper
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Primary Keywords
abstraction
animals
figures
geometric shapes
nudes
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Title
Inkwell made of sterling silver overlay on crystal glass
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
This is a spherical shaped glass inkwell with sterling silver overlay in intricate designs of flowers and plants. The top half of the sphere, which opens horizontally, is the lid.
Object Creation Date
1875-1975
Accession Number
2010/1.221
Medium and Support
glass, metal
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Primary Keywords
inkwell
silver plate
spheres (geometric figures)
Title
Goldweight in the shape of a pyramid with a bird on top
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description
Goldweight in the shape of a step pyramid topped by a bird.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1900-1985
Accession Number
1997/1.448
Medium and Support
brass
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Primary Keywords
birds
ghana (nation)
pyramids (geometric figures)
Title
Purple shibori kimono with overall pattern of tiny squares in diagonal rows
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Purple silk crepe with hitta miura and hand tie-dyed design achieving the effect of many diagonal rows of tiny squares. Upper lining is plain weave momi (red silk) and lower and cuff linings are mauve pink.
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1930s-1940s
Accession Number
2005/1.376
Medium and Support
purple silk crepe with tie dye design
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Primary Keywords
kimono
squares (geometric figures)
tie-dyed
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Title
#97-18
Artist
Gary Johnson
Physical Description
wood vase with geometric patterning that wraps across a top-bottom, left-right diagonal
Artist Life Dates
(active Webster City, Iowa, 1936 - )
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
1996
Accession Number
2002/2.149
Medium and Support
maple, paela, bloodwood
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Primary Keywords
geometric patterns
vessels
wood (plant material)
Title
Mother-of-pearl inlayed lacquer tray with geometric designs
Artist
Artist Unknown, Thailand
Physical Description
A square shaped, wood tray with curved corners tray. The interior is red lacquered, and the exterior is coated with black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlays in geometric shapes.
Century
Late 19th-early 20th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
2005/1.468
Medium and Support
lacquered wood with mother-of-pearl inlay
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Primary Keywords
betel nuts
geometric motifs
inlays
trays
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Title
Shift, Orange and Green
Artist
Julian Stanczak
Physical Description
This is a square painting with skinny vertical lines of green on a background of red. There are two square forms in the center, each with a diagonal line from the upper left to lower right corners. One square is created by a pinkish, purple line and the other is created by a reddish orange line.
Artist Life Dates
born 1928
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1991
Accession Number
2009/2.12
Medium and Support
acrylic on canvas and wood
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rank 5.86763
Primary Keywords
line spacing
squares (geometric figures)
stripes
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Richard Lindner
Artist Life Dates
1901-1978
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1901-1978
Accession Number
1983/1.198
Medium and Support
color lithograph on paper
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Primary Keywords
abstraction
figures
geometric shapes
lingerie
standing
Title
Silk underkimono with bokashi dye in large squares of aqua and white
Artist
Artist Unknown, Japan
Physical Description
Silk crepe damask with alternating weaves in checkerboard design
Century
mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960s-1980s
Accession Number
2005/1.394
Medium and Support
Silk crepe with twill geometric design
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Primary Keywords
geometric pattern
kimono
silk (textile)
underclothes
Title
Plate
Artist
Tamura Kôichi
Physical Description
Square shaped ceramic plate with iron black/brown glaze. Areas of raised black glaze with speckled texture sharply contrast lighter brown sections. Together they forn the shapes of circles, cracks, and lines.
Artist Life Dates
1919 - 1986
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960-1963
Accession Number
1963/2.74
Medium and Support
stoneware with iron brown/black glaze
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Primary Keywords
ceramics
plates (dishes)
squares (geometric figures)
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Title
Duo S-Z
Artist
Josef Albers
Physical Description
This object is a cream colored sheet of paper in a horizontal rectangular shape with geometric forms embossed in the center section. There is no color and the geometric forms are created by raised lines. There is a long rectangle that contains two sets of intersecting cubes. The object title, edition number, artist signature and date are written in pencil below the rectangle.
Artist Life Dates
American, born Germany, 1888-1976
Object Creation Date
1958
Accession Number
2009/2.15
Medium and Support
Intaglio on paper
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Primary Keywords
cubes (geometric figures)
intaglio prints
rectangles
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Title
Moon Over Cypress
Artist
Italo Scanga
Physical Description
This is a colorful abstract print with geometric shapes in blue, yellow, green and red outlined in black. There are also three white areas with black line drawings that depict a plant in a flower pot and two cypress trees in the bottom section and a landscape with mountains and a yellow moon in the upper right portion.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1932
Object Creation Date
1989
Accession Number
2010/2.40
Medium and Support
lithograph on cream Rives BFK
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Primary Keywords
flowers (plants)
geometric motifs
moon
trees
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Title
Quilt
Artist
Alexander Calder
Artist Life Dates
1898 - 1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1898-1969
Accession Number
1969/2.137
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
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Primary Keywords
abstraction
circles
geometric shapes
quilts
triangles
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Title
The Paris Review
Artist
Richard Lindner
Artist Life Dates
1901-1978
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1901-1978
Accession Number
1983/1.197
Medium and Support
10-color lithograph on paper
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rank 5.80518
Primary Keywords
abstraction
geometric shapes
head
paris
profile views
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Title
Abstract Circles
Artist
Fukui Ryonosuke
Physical Description
This print consists of nuetral, muted colors and abstract designs primarily of dots and circles. The print is designed to look as if thin cracks run through the image, and a lady bug is almost imperceptible near the bottom left of the image. The bottom edge of the print has a dark strip running across it.
Artist Life Dates
1924-1986
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
mid 20th century
Accession Number
2010/2.33
Medium and Support
color print on paper
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rank 5.80518
Primary Keywords
abstraction, geometric
circles (plane figures)
insects
prints
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Title
Chess Set (Legs to Base of Chess Board)
Artist
Victor Vasarely
Physical Description
Acrylic chess set. The playing pieces are of various geometric shapes. The board and the space that surrounds it are covered with a colorful grid pattern, which each square filled with a circle.
Artist Life Dates
1908 - 1997
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1980
Accession Number
2004/2.86FF&GG
Medium and Support
acrylic sculpture
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rank 5.80518
Primary Keywords
chessboards
chessmen
geometric abstraction
molding
op art
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Title
Three spears base on top of spear front, spear finial, iridescent color, hand painted
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
This is a clear glass inkwell with a metal collar and sphere finial lid. The body has a hollow glass sphere resting on a base of three solid glass spheres. Each of the spheres is decorated with painted leaves and flowers.
Object Creation Date
1875-1975
Accession Number
2010/1.233
Medium and Support
glass, metal
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rank 5.80518
Primary Keywords
glass
leaf (plant material)
spheres (geometric figures)
Title
Design Cloth
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Square panel of raffia, cut-pile cloth; top is even, plush surface; intersecting linear pattern creates geometic diamond motifs in contrasting dark and light browns. Back is woven raffia cloth.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1970
Accession Number
1986/2.105
Medium and Support
raffia, cloth, dye
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rank 5.80518
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
natural fiber
prestige
raffiawork
textiles
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Title
Chess Set (Board)
Artist
Victor Vasarely
Physical Description
Acrylic chess set. The playing pieces are of various geometric shapes. The board and the space that surrounds it are covered with a colorful grid pattern, which each square filled with a circle.
Artist Life Dates
1908 - 1997
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1980
Accession Number
2004/2.86II
Medium and Support
acrylic sculpture
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rank 5.68418
Primary Keywords
checker pattern
chessboards
chessmen
geometric abstraction
molding
op art
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Title
Chess Set (Chess Pieces and Base of Table)
Artist
Victor Vasarely
Physical Description
Acrylic chess set. The playing pieces are of various geometric shapes. The board and the space that surrounds it are covered with a colorful grid pattern in shades of blues and purples,.
Artist Life Dates
1908 - 1997
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1980
Accession Number
2004/2.86A-EE & HH
Medium and Support
acrylic sculpture
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rank 5.68418
Primary Keywords
checker pattern
chessboards
chessmen
geometric abstraction
molding
op art
Title
Covered box with a knob and alternating panels of vegetal scrolls and lattices
Artist
Artist Unknown, Thailand, Sawankhalok ware
Physical Description
Small-size covered box, the lotus bud handle and surrounding medallion in brown, the body and lid with alternating panels of vegetal scrolls and lattices. Each panel is separated by a raised line. The foot is painted brown. Clear glaze.
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
circa 15th centrury
Accession Number
1983/1.432A&B
Medium and Support
stoneware with underglaze iron decoration and clear glaze
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rank 5.68418
Primary Keywords
boxes (containers)
container
geometric patterns
leaf scrolls
sawankhalok
stoneware
Title
Mat
Artist
Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description
Flat raffia mat with woven geometric, diamond-lke pattern of interlocking lines in green, natural and purple.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1970
Accession Number
1985/1.165
Medium and Support
Raffia fiber
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rank 5.62556
Primary Keywords
geometric motifs
mats (floor coverings)
prestige
raffiawork
textiles
wall hangings
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Title
Durango I
Artist
Sean Scully
Physical Description
Rectangles of offwhite and blue-grey, of various sizes, arranged on a grid.
Artist Life Dates
active b. 1945
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1991
Accession Number
2002/2.54
Medium and Support
spitbite aquatint on paper
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rank 5.56813
Primary Keywords
aquatints
color-field
geometric abstraction
grids (patterns)
minimal
rectangles
spit biting
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Title
Akbar's Bounty
Artist
Michael Mode
Physical Description
A wide-mouthed bowl narrows steeply to a small base. A brown and white checker board pattern covers the interior and exterior and scales down as the diameter decreases toward the bottom.
wood bowl with geometric patterning in concentric rings, decreasing in size top to bottom
Artist Life Dates
born 1946
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
2000
Accession Number
2002/2.166
Medium and Support
holly and morado
relevance
rank 5.45672
Primary Keywords
appropriation
bowls (vessels)
checker pattern
geometric abstraction
mughal styles
wood (plant material)
woodworking
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Title
Seven Aquatints
Artist
Robert Mangold
Physical Description
This work is an olive green square. Within this color area is a circle outlined in gray, that touches all four edges of the square, and a smaller square outlined in white.
Artist Life Dates
born 1937
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1973
Accession Number
1999/1.104.7
Medium and Support
aquatint printed in colors on BFK Rives wove paper
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rank 5.28604
Primary Keywords
abstract
circles (plane figures)
intaglio prints
squares (geometric figures)
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Title
Horizontal Diamond with Three Kinds of Lines
Artist
Richard Tuttle
Physical Description
Small ink drawing on large sheet. 14 parallel wavy lines on an angle form a diamond; 1 line crosses through the tops of all 14; landscape orientation.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1941
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1973
Accession Number
2008/2.262
Medium and Support
pen on paper
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rank 5.28604
Primary Keywords
conceptual
geometric
gesture drawings
line drawings
lozenges
writing (processes)
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Title
Seven Aquatints
Artist
Robert Mangold
Physical Description
This work is a dark yellow square. Within this color area is a circle outlined in green, that touches all four edges of the square, and a smaller square outlined in white.
Artist Life Dates
born 1937
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1973
Accession Number
1999/1.104.4
Medium and Support
aquatint printed in colors on BFK Rives wove paper
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rank 5.28604
Primary Keywords
abstract
circles (plane figures)
intaglio prints
squares (geometric figures)
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Title
Seven Aquatints
Artist
Robert Mangold
Physical Description
This work is a green colored square. Within this color area is a circle outlined in gray, that touches all four edges of the square, and a smaller square outlined in white.
Artist Life Dates
born 1937
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1973
Accession Number
1999/1.104.6
Medium and Support
aquatint printed in colors on BFK Rives wove paper
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rank 5.28604
Primary Keywords
abstract
circles (plane figures)
intaglio prints
squares (geometric figures)
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