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Title

Virgin of the Apocalypse

Artist

Gaetano Gandolfi

Physical Description

A woman dressed in a rose-colored robe with a blue mantle and flowing white veil stands on a silver crescent moon among a bank of dark clouds. A halo of stars encircles her head. She clasps both hands before her. The heads of two putti peak out from beneath her mantle next to her left hip. Her right foot treads upon a long serpent that curves back upon itself with an open mouth.

Artist Life Dates

(1728 - 1781)

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1770-1780

Accession Number

2009/1.537

Medium and Support

oil on canvas, mounted on board

relevance

rank 15.18686

Primary Keywords

clouds

crescents (shapes)

moon

oil painting

putti

stars

Title

At the Crossroads (En Rade)

Artist

Max Ernst

Physical Description

Three birds, executed with spare line and simple form, are set within an abstracted landscape of bright yellows and oranges.

Artist Life Dates

1891 - 1976

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1955

Accession Number

1983/1.414

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 15.02859

Primary Keywords

abstract

abstraction

birds

oil painting

sky

sunlight

surrealism

surrealist

Title

The Student (L'Etudiante)

Artist

Gerome Kamrowski

Physical Description

On a narrow canvas a background of overlapping, rounded segments of blues, grays, and greens suggests rock. These layers build up to warmer colors, and on the surface of the layers are several shapes executed in white line suggestive of cave-painting. The shapes looks like microscopic organisms and are connected by the nerve-like white lines. As a whole, the visual elements are also suggestive of a seated figure, and the white shapes then appear as organs.

Artist Life Dates

1914 - 2004

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1950

Accession Number

1975/1.77

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 13.95391

Primary Keywords

abstraction

biomorphic abstraction

figures (representations)

oil painting

spirituality

surrealism

surrealist

Title

Cactus

Artist

Graham Sutherland

Physical Description

Three forms that are simulatenously organic and sculptural stand in a line. At their base they appear sculptural or vessel-like, but further up they become more organic and cactus-like in their form. The table and background are yellow. The forms are executed mostly with white, off-white, and gray.

Artist Life Dates

1903 - 1980

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1950

Accession Number

1954/2.39

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 13.95391

Primary Keywords

abstraction

biomorphic abstraction

cacti

growth

oil painting

still lifes

surrealism

surrealist

Title

Study of a Standing Male Nude

Artist

Gaetano Gandolfi

Physical Description

A nude, muscular man, seen from behind, leans upon his left leg, which is propped on a rock. He grasps a stick for support with his left hand, while bending his torso to the right and looking downward. The lighting and colors vaguely suggest an outdoor environment.

Artist Life Dates

(1728 - 1781)

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1760-1780

Accession Number

2008/2.199.2

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 13.95391

Primary Keywords

bologna (inhabited place)

models (people)

models (representations)

nudes

oil painting

Title

Seated Male Nude

Artist

Jean Paul Slusser

Physical Description

A male nude sits on an orange pillow with his knees up and hands on them. The figure, which fills much of the space, is in an interior. The walls, a doorway, and a chair are visible.

Artist Life Dates

1886 -1981

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1935

Accession Number

1983/1.394

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 13.84907

Primary Keywords

figures

figures (representations)

males

men

models (people)

nudes

oil painting

seated

sitting

Title

Ocean Park No. 52

Artist

Richard Diebenkorn

Physical Description

A canvas saturated in layered shades of muted browns, oranges, ochres, and yellows is crossed by lines, some dark some light, some on the surface, some buried beneath the surface color. A bold horizontal line cuts across about a quarter of the way from the bottom. On the right are several faint verticals. At the top two horizontal lines underlap and overlap with two diagonals.

Artist Life Dates

1922 - 1993

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1972

Accession Number

1974/2.22

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 13.61042

Primary Keywords

abstract

abstraction

color-field

lyrical abstraction

natural landscapes

oil painting

santa monica (inhabited place)

sunlight

Title

Spring Landscape

Artist

Arthur Wesley Dow

Physical Description

Landscape painting depicting a dirt pathway with steps and a wooden railing cutting through the center of the composition leading to a house on a hill in the distance. On either side of the path are blooming trees bearing pink and white blossoms in a green meadow.

Artist Life Dates

1857 - 1922

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1892

Accession Number

1954/1.168

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 13.42520

Primary Keywords

clouds

flowers

grass (plant material)

grassland

houses

landscapes

landscapes (environments)

oil painting

paths

road

sky

spring

trees

Title

Composition

Artist

Auguste Herbin

Physical Description

Flat, colorful, overlapping geometric and biomorphic abstract forms

Artist Life Dates

1882 - 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1927

Accession Number

1955/2.10

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 13.26640

Primary Keywords

abstraction

biomorphic abstraction

face

geometric abstraction

oil painting

rubenism

Title

Bounded on the West by the Land Under Water

Artist

Kay Sage

Physical Description

Four spare industrial structures rise at different angles into an empty landscape. On the viewer's right, a scaffolding rises from the lower corner and angles to the left. On the left, another scaffold structure runs from the bottom corner along the left edge. In the middle, a building-like structure rises from the bottom of the composition and leans into the visual space, resting on a long rectangular solid that is draped with a cloth.

Artist Life Dates

1898 - 1963

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1946

Accession Number

1963/2.1

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 12.59621

Primary Keywords

abstraction

industrial buildings

industrial complexes

industrial landscapes

landscapes

oil painting

scaffolds

surrealism

surrealist

tower

towers (single built works)

water