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Title

Leaf from a Bible with Daniel in the lions' den aided by the prophet Habakuk

Artist

Artist Unknown, France

Physical Description

Two columns of Latin text fill this page taken from a bible manuscript. A painting in a gold rectangular frame is located in the lower right column. An angel descends from a blue semicircular disc in the upper right corner of the painting and grasps a larger figure by the hair with both hands. This second figure holds a jug in his left hand and a plate with bread in his right. A third figure, dressed in a white robe, reaches up toward this larger figure from an enclosure below. He appears against a black background and four gray animal heads overlap his torso.

Century

13th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1290

Accession Number

1993/2.10

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 14.20163

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Title

Burmese Prayer Book with Manuscript Pages (total of 20 pages)

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

This prayer book consists of 20 pages written on the front and back in the Myanmar language. It is decorated in golds and reds with black text.

Accession Number

2012/1.280.1

Medium and Support

paper and paint on wood board

relevance

rank 13.99903

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Title

Jewish Funeral, Jerusalem, Israel

Artist

Leonard Freed

Physical Description

A group of Hassidic men standing over a body covered in a cloth. There are windows behind them.

Object Creation Date

1972

Accession Number

2014/2.332

Medium and Support

vintage gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 13.68018

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Title

Leaf from a Bible with decorated initial and vegetal ornament

Artist

Artist Unknown, Armenia

Physical Description

This page from a manuscript features two columns of text written in Armenian. An animal-shaped initial, composed of two stylized birds pecking one another, appears in the lower right column. The lower left margin is decorated with a sidebar that elegantly combines geometric and plant motifs. The decorative elements are painted in pink and blue with touches of reddish orange.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

early 15th century

Accession Number

1958/1.162

Medium and Support

ink on glazed paper

relevance

rank 12.79430

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asia (continent)

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Title

Study for the Play Scene from Hamlet

Artist

William Orpen

Physical Description

This drawing depicts two groups of figures. A darker, more heavily shadowed group that includes a prominent standing figure appears in the lower right corner. A second group of seated figures, more lightly drawn, appear in the upper left.

Artist Life Dates

(1878 - 1931)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1898-1899

Accession Number

2009/1.509

Medium and Support

graphite and ink wash on paper, mounted on board

relevance

rank 12.78810

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Title

Leaf from a psalter or book of hours (Psalm 26)

Artist

Artist Unknown, England or France

Physical Description

This manuscript leaf contains a single column of text in Latin surrounded by generous margins on three sides. Pen-flourished initials elaborated with delicate penwork, colored red and blue alternating with gold and purple, mark the beginning of each verse along the left edge of the text column. Five line-fillers, long linear elements colored blue and gold, complete the closing line of each verse and preserve the regular shape of the text block.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1400-1450

Accession Number

1965/2.81

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 12.77452

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Title

Leaf from a Gradual with St. Lawrence

Artist

Ludovico de Gaci

Physical Description

This leaf from a manuscript contains seven lines of Latin text with musical notation. The initial letter, "C," of the opening word "Confessio" is made from a curved vegetal form. The text is preceded by a painted miniature in a circular frame that is, in turn, enclosed by a golden square. The miniature depicts a man with a tonsure and a golden halo standing in a verdant landscape. He holds a palm leaf in his left hand and rests his right hand on a grill. The left and upper margins of the page are decorated with green and pink leaves and flowers and small gold circles.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1489

Accession Number

1986/2.85

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 12.67063

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Title

Preacher on the Street, New York City, USA

Artist

Leonard Freed

Physical Description

A man preaching on a public street. There are people passing by him. He is holding a bible in one hand.

Object Creation Date

1980

Accession Number

2014/2.340

Medium and Support

vintage gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 12.63229

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Title

La Revue Blanche

Artist

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Physical Description

Colors: turquoise, green, dr. green, lt. green, red, coral, royal blue. Previously folded in half at center. Some bubbling of the paper at top right. Paper size: lh 129cm & rh 128 4/5cm x w 93 1/2cm. Image size: lh 123 1/2cm & rh 124 4/5cm x tw 90cm & bw 89 3/5cm.

Artist Life Dates

1864-1901

Accession Number

2008/2.363

Medium and Support

color lithograph on beige wove paper

relevance

rank 12.59167

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

california (state)

declaratory and advertising artifacts

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Title

The mass meeting in Danville is so crowded that it overflows out into the yard. When word arrives that heavily armed police and an armored vehicle are waiting up the road, the crowd disperses, leaving the SNCC workers to exit last, from "Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement"

Artist

Danny Lyon

Physical Description

A group of people outside of a church praying because there is no more room inside. The streets are covered with parked cars.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1942

Object Creation Date

1963; printed 2010

Accession Number

2014/2.321

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 12.53408

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Title

Bombed-out Church, World War II Liberation, Limousin, Haute-Vienne, Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Artist

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Physical Description

A bombed out church with debris all around.

Artist Life Dates

1908-2004

Object Creation Date

1944

Accession Number

2014/2.323

Medium and Support

vintage gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 12.47923

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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 12.36179

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Movie and Minstrel Show Posters on Brick Wall, Demopolis, Alabama

Artist

Walker Evans

Physical Description

A black and white photo of the side of a building that has advertisements posted. One ad is for a movie, "The Roaring West," while the other is for the " J. C. Lincoln's Sunny South Big Tent Show."

Artist Life Dates

1903-1975

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1935-1936

Accession Number

2011/2.7

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 12.33458

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Le Café de la Nouvelle Athènes

Artist

Jean Louis Forain

Artist Life Dates

1852-1931

Century

19th Century

Object Creation Date

circa 1876

Accession Number

1973/1.712

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint on cream laid paper

relevance

rank 12.26330

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Title

News of the Titanic

Artist

John Sloan

Artist Life Dates

1871-1951

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1912

Accession Number

1964/1.107

Medium and Support

crayon, ink and graphite on off-white paper

relevance

rank 12.07633

Secondary Keywords

candles and candleholders

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Title

Landscape: Illustrating a poem of the T'ang period by Chang Chi (Zhang Ji )

Artist

Dong Gao (Tung Kao)

Physical Description

Chang Chi's poem lies in the upper right corner, just above a distant castle or other elegant building. In the foreground, mountains and trees arch over a wandering blue river and stretches of wispy clouds.

Artist Life Dates

(1740 - 1818)

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1780

Accession Number

1967/2.9

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and color on silk

relevance

rank 12.01777

Secondary Keywords

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Title

The Roll Call, A Masque of the Red Cross

Artist

Arnold Genthe

Physical Description

Text: The Roll Call, A Masque of the Red Cross - By Percy MacKaye

Artist Life Dates

Germany, 1869-1942

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1918

Accession Number

1954/2.35.44

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 12.01264

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Eve Tempted by the Serpent

Artist

Defendente Ferrari

Physical Description

A nude woman with long hair flowing down her back grasps a tree branch with her right hand and bends it downward in order to more easily pluck the green fruit dangling at its tip with her left hand. Her white body contrasts starkly with the darker tones of the surrounding landscape. The less conspicuous figure of a serpent with the head of a bearded man coils about the trunk of the tree next to the woman and fixes her with his stare.

Artist Life Dates

active 1500-1535

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1520-1525

Accession Number

1967/1.38

Medium and Support

tempera on panel

relevance

rank 11.94110

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Leaf from a Book of Hours

Artist

Artist Unknown, France

Physical Description

This manuscript page contains a column of Latin text surrounded by generous margins. A pair of slender flowers with small green leaves run the length of the text along the left margin. Three decorated initials appear on the left edge of the text block. Each initial is painted gold on a pink and blue ground with white scrollwork and enclosed within a frame. Two rectangular line-fillers, colored pink and blue with white scrollwork, appear in the right half of the text column.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1400-1425

Accession Number

1993/2.9

Medium and Support

ink, tempera and gold on parchment

relevance

rank 11.87327

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Title

Pair of Mandarin Ducks (Fan)

Artist

Wang Mengbai

Physical Description

Chinese ink painting on a fan with drawings on the front and a poem on the back.

Artist Life Dates

1888-1934

Object Creation Date

circa 1920

Accession Number

2011/2.189

Medium and Support

ink and color on on paper

relevance

rank 11.83731

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Title

Warriors going into battle from a Mahabharata series

Artist

India, Maharashtra, Paithan School

Physical Description

Three warriors march forward, taking up nearly the entire frame. Blue soldiers carring weapons and shields bring up the front and rear. They appear to move through a stylized tree landscape.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

early 19th century - mid 19th century

Accession Number

1975/2.150

Medium and Support

ink and opaque watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 11.62073

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Title

The Flood

Artist

Artist Unknown, Dutch

Physical Description

In an ominous landscape a crowd of nude men, women and children, their bodies silhouetted against the descending gloom, struggle frantically to escape rising floodwaters. The figures gesture wildly and strenuously twist their long athletic bodies into a seemingly infinite variety of contortions as they clamber up the last hilltops and trees. A city stands on a hill and appears through the trees in the background.

Century

16th-17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1590

Accession Number

1985/2.70

Medium and Support

oil on panel

relevance

rank 11.33263

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Title

Râmâyana manuscript page: Rama kills the deer (folio no. 31)

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Malwa School

Physical Description

The artist has captured the story of the deer hunt with the fewest possible elements, in a way that is instantly recognizable and yet takes liberties with the classical tale. The forest is represented by two trees and a few sprays of foliage; the deer is a mundane gray, not magical gold; and Sita waits anxiously in a white marble pavilion, rather than a thatched hut. The vibrantly colored backgrounds divide the composition into zones that create mood and organize the narrative.

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1635-1650

Accession Number

1964/2.111

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 11.30370

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Title

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharoah's Servants

Artist

Nöel Hallé

Physical Description

This painting shows the interior of a large prison room. There is a thick stone wall and iron grating. Three figures are the focal point of this composition. One man, in a dark blue cloak, is standing and faces two other men who stare intently at his face. One of them is seated with a leg iron, on a stone bench and the other leans on a stone ledge. They are are dressed in simple brown cloaks. The standing figure has a raised left arm and is gesturing with his hand outstretched toward the other figures.

Artist Life Dates

1711-1781

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1747

Accession Number

1984/1.287

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 11.25743

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Tell that to the Marines! At 24 East 23rd Street

Artist

James Montgomery Flagg

Physical Description

Text: Tell That To The Marines! At 24 East 23rd Street - (newspaper headline) Huns Kill Women and Children!

Artist Life Dates

1877-1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1918

Accession Number

1954/2.35.36

Medium and Support

color lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 11.21776

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Title

Illuminated Manuscript

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

One column of text with gold leaf, red and blue lettering. Picture and figures on the right.

Object Creation Date

1462

Accession Number

2015/2.6A&B

Medium and Support

ink and gold leaf on paper

relevance

rank 11.11534

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Title

Calendar

Artist

Serizawa Keisuke

Physical Description

This print of a calendar for the month of January, 1964, is dominated by red. Blues and purples round out the composition. Sundays are indicated with red numbers and purple boxes, while the rest of the calendar days sit in red boxes with the numbered date showing as paper through negative space. The year 1963 is printed at top center in a rounded and pointed red rectangular shape. Birds, flowers, and kanji are used to decorate the upper register.

Artist Life Dates

1895-1984

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1962

Accession Number

2010/2.48.1

Medium and Support

color print (kataezome) on handmade mulberry paper

relevance

rank 10.96517

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Title

Leaf from a book of hours with a funeral mass

Artist

Gold Scrolls Group

Physical Description

This miniature painting depicts a group of male figures gathered around a coffin draped with a blue cloth. Two pairs of candles set on tall candlesticks are placed at the head and foot of the coffin. To the left of the coffin stand four mourners wearing long gray robes with hoods. Facing them from the other side of the coffin are three tonsured clergymen dressed in white, who look at an open book placed before them. The group stands upon a green tiled floor next to a pink wall. The background is painted red and decorated with an exuberant pattern of gold scrolling foliage motifs.

Artist Life Dates

active circa 1415-1450

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1415-1455

Accession Number

1993/2.8

Medium and Support

ink, tempera, gold, and silver alloy on parchment

relevance

rank 10.92613

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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rites of passage

Title

Calaveras Estranguladoras

Artist

Anonymous Mexican

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1940

Accession Number

1983/2.44

Medium and Support

woodcut and metalcuts on paper

relevance

rank 10.89866

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Title

Senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita), from Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini (1762)

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Physical Description

Large double-folio print, with fold marks. Contains various monuments and their text from ancient Rome. Title plate beneath print indicates that the fragments were from ancient Rome and found in various ancient ruins, with the exception of fragment XLIX, currently (at time of print) in the collection of the Collegio Romano, a building then housing the Jesuits' Rome seminary.

Print is patched. Separate plate marks are visible between image and inscription. The image is patched from four segments, while the text below is patched from two segments. Paper bears no watermark. Folio fold marks are noted on copy in file. Large text portions read as follows:

Inscription 1 (in image plate, center): senatus populusque Romanus / monumenta marmorea magistratuum / triumphorumque ab urbe condita ad / tempora divi Augusti ruderibus in foro / egestis eruta impensa Al ex(andri) Farnesii card(inalis) / Pauli III Pont(ificis) Max(imi) nepot(is) in Capitolio p(osita)

Inscription 2 (in separate text plate attached at bottom): Lapides Capitolini / Sive Fastorum fragmenta, quos Verrius Flaccus, Caii et Lucii, Augusti Nepotum, praeceptor ase dispositos in inferiore fori parte conlocaverat, nunc primum edita prout cermuntur in Capitolio servata / nempe characteris et Lapidum forma, additis ad ornatum degantioribus aliquot veteribus sigillis, et anaglyplus / Fragmentum XLIX in Collegio Romano Patrum Societatis Jesu adservatum

Artist Life Dates

Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1762

Accession Number

2007/2.117

Medium and Support

engraving, printed in black ink on paper

relevance

rank 10.79079

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Title

Hanging a Poem on a Cherry Tree

Artist

Ishikawa Toyonobu

Physical Description

A color woodblock print of a young woman hanging a paper with poem on a cherry tree. The woman is in a kimono with intricate design of cherry blossom, hemp leaves, birds and swirls, pine trees and diamond patterns. She also wears broad obi (sash) in checkerboard patterns, which is bow- tied on her back. There is also a white sash underneath the obi, which supports her long kimono. Her hair is tied on the back and adorn with tortoise-shell comb and pin. The cherry tree is in full bloom; there is a curtain with a family crest behind the woman and the tree; a certain kind of platform with swirling vine pattern is peaking below the curtain. The overall color scheme is in yellow, orange, black and white (the color of the paper). There are artist’s signature and two seals on the right bottom corner, and smaller seal on the left bottom corner.

Artist Life Dates

1711-1785

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1746-1749

Accession Number

1955/1.130

Medium and Support

Urushi-e (color woodblock print) on paper

relevance

rank 10.55263

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Buddha's Footprint at Zhutang Temple, from the album, Twelve Views of Jinling (Nanjing) (one of pair of albums)

Artist

Gao Cen (Kao Ts'en)

Artist Life Dates

act. 1643-1679

Century

17th-18th century

Object Creation Date

late 17th century - 18th century

Accession Number

1970/2.159.9

Medium and Support

album leaf, ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 10.54639

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Esther before Ahasuerus

Artist

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Physical Description

A bearded man, wearing majestic red robes with a large ermine collar and a green turban surmounted by a crown, sits on a throne at left. He leans forward, holding a long thin scepter in his right hand while touching his chest with his left. Before him stand two women supporting a third, who has fainted. This third woman wears a splendid blue robe ornamented with a row of opulent clasps, a luxurious golden cloak lined with pink fabric, and a crown that seems to tilt precariously on the back of her head. The man looks intently into the face of the fainted woman, while the two women, in turn, watch his expression closely.

Artist Life Dates

1591-1666

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1639

Accession Number

1963/2.45

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.19472

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Saint Maria, Saint Claude, Saint Norbert, and Saint Robert from Israel Henriet's "Images of the Saints" (Plate 48)

Artist

Jacques Callot

Physical Description

Four oval illustrations of different scenes of saints helping others.

Artist Life Dates

1592-1635

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1636

Accession Number

2013/2.540

Medium and Support

etching on laid paper

relevance

rank 10.14706

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Esther before Ahasuerus

Artist

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Physical Description

A seated king, at the left, holds the hand of a swooning woman who is supported by another woman. The supporting woman looks back at the king.

Artist Life Dates

1591-1666

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1639

Accession Number

1978/2.41

Medium and Support

pen, brown ink and brown wash on cream colored laid paper

relevance

rank 10.11871

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Stove God and Wife with Calendar

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

This print is typical, depicting the Stove God and his wife with halos and elegant clothing. Before them is a table with common worship instruments, including candles, an incense burner, and flowers. Standing in the bottom corners are two officials, and between them a container of jewels. The jewels are flanked by a dog and rooster; animals thought to be symbols of domesticity with auspicious connotations. Above the scene a calendar for the year 1949 is framed by an auspicious dragon motif.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1948

Accession Number

1989/2.116

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 10.01870

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Artist

Gaspare Traversi

Physical Description

The half-length figure of a woman looks directly out of the painting and holds the bearded head of a man on a platter in her hands. She wears a fine robe with large white sleeves and collar, a soft hat with a small white feather, and a bejeweled pin on her left shoulder. The face of an older woman with deeply wrinkled skin appears in the shadows behind her.

Artist Life Dates

1722-1724 - circa 1770

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1760

Accession Number

1996/2.16

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 9.92794

Secondary Keywords

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Title

The Lord's Prayer, sheet 5 - Give Us this Day Our Daily Bread (Das Vaterunser - Unser täglich Brot gieb uns heute)

Artist

Max Pechstein

Physical Description

Four men in plain, dark clothing sit, with hands folded in prayer, around a rectangular table, in the center of which is a fish on an oval platter. The man at the far end has his eyes closed. The other three raise their faces to heaven.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1921

Accession Number

1948/1.427

Medium and Support

woodcut with hand-coloring on paper

relevance

rank 9.63007

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Title

Field Notes II

Artist

Larry Cressman

Physical Description

Small, thin raspberry twigs are organized in horizental rows to form a square on a white background.

Artist Life Dates

born 1945

Object Creation Date

2009

Accession Number

2009/2.103

Medium and Support

raspberry twigs, polymer, pins

relevance

rank 9.53120

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Ctric News Topi

Artist

Ronald Kitaj

Physical Description

Various sized, colorful rectangles lay atop a black background. Some of these shapes contain a variety of images: printed lettering, hand written documents, black and white photographs, and labeling tape. Each individual component has a label-like white box with a red border. Some of the rectangles also have a black or red tape that seems to censor the work's words and objects.

Artist Life Dates

born 1932

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1932-1983

Accession Number

1983/1.194

Medium and Support

color screenprint on wove paper

relevance

rank 9.52197

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Hercules

Artist

Albrecht Dürer

Physical Description

A nude man seen from behind raises a staff to ward off the blow of a standing female figure, also with a staff. The woman's swing is directed to two seated figures at the lower left: a nude woman and a satyr. In the distance is an elaborate gated city and landscape.

Artist Life Dates

(Nüremberg, 1471 - 1528)

Century

Late 15th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1498

Accession Number

1956/1.78

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 8.91376

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Untitled (Structural Constellation drawing)

Artist

Josef Albers

Physical Description

pen and ink drawing on half inch grid graph paper ruled in blue

Artist Life Dates

American, born Germany, 1888-1976

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1955

Accession Number

2007/2.5

Medium and Support

pen and ink on half inch grid graph paper ruled in blue

relevance

rank 8.06110

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Seated Woman

Artist

Utagawa Toyokuni III (Kunisada)

Physical Description

A woman in kimono sits with her sleeve to her mouth. The kimono is decorated with fall leaves, and she sits behind lacquwe tea ware. Above her are crest-like decorations in blue, backgrounding the open pages of a book.

Artist Life Dates

1786-1864

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1852

Accession Number

2010/2.49

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 6.93994

Secondary Keywords

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