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Title

Portrait of Sir Foster Cunilffe, 3rd Bt. of Acton Park, Wrexham, Denbingshire (1755-1834)

Artist

John Hoppner

Physical Description

Full-length portrait of a standing male in a lanscape setting. To the left of the composition stands a pair of birches near the figure; to the right the landscape opens up to a distant expanse of trees and hills. The man, Sir Foster Cunliiffe, stands facing to the right and looking out of the canvas to the left. He holds a bow and quiver of arrows; a black hat with feather lies on the ground at his feet. He is dressed in tan pants and waistcoat with a green frock coat and black boots.

Artist Life Dates

1758 - 1810

Object Creation Date

1787-1834

Accession Number

2007/2.1

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 21.48347

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Cock Fight

Artist

Frank Robuste

Physical Description

A group of people gather around two fighting roosters. Some of the women in the group carry baskets on their heads, while two men carry more roosters.

Artist Life Dates

c.1940-2012

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2011/2.183

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 20.89907

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

birds

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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 20.74361

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

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Title

The Sixth Night Vigil from a Kalpasutra manuscript (fol. no. 38v), depicting two pairs of queens

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Physical Description

A scene in the life of Mahavira. The composition is designated a narrow strip near the left, while the rest of the page is used for text and red circles. The illustration is divided into two registers, with depictions of two women in each. The infant Mahavira is seen in his mother’s arms, at the upper left.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1478

Accession Number

1981/2.162

Medium and Support

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 20.42043

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Title

Washing Clothes

Artist

Kensel Franklin

Physical Description

A group of women gather to wash clothes in a river while a man looks on.

Artist Life Dates

Haitian, 1945-1975 (?)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2011/2.184

Medium and Support

oil on masonite

relevance

rank 20.39820

Secondary Keywords

bodies of water

bodies of water and components of bodies of water

bodies of water by size

buildings and the land

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

landscapes (environments)

natural landscapes

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riverine bodies

settlements and landscapes

Title

Untitled

Artist

Robert Arthur Goodnough

Physical Description

A mass of small, colorful brush strokes.

Artist Life Dates

1917 - 2010

Object Creation Date

1975

Accession Number

2011/1.60

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 20.37098

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Late Autumn Landscape

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

The entire top portion of this painting is seemingly blank, but represents the air and atmosphere. Below are mountains hugged by clouds and trees and vegetation in the phase of autumn.

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

16th century

Accession Number

1966/2.1

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper

relevance

rank 19.98204

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Title

Village Wedding

Artist

Georges Auguste

Physical Description

A wedding party on horseback leaves a village while a crowd watches.

Artist Life Dates

Haitian, born 1933

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1950-2000

Accession Number

2011/2.185

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 19.82922

Secondary Keywords

scale

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cultural ceremonies

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rites of passage

settlements

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settlements by form

Title

Bamboo

Artist

Kobayashe Kanrin

Physical Description

A hanging scroll painting of bamboo.

Artist Life Dates

(1813 - 1887)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1972-1975

Accession Number

2011/2.165

Medium and Support

sumi on paper

relevance

rank 19.13028

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

grass (plant material)

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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 19.12794

Secondary Keywords

bologna (province)

descriptors

emilia-romagna (region)

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Title

Boating on a River in Autumn

Artist

Chen Huan (Ch'en Huan)

Physical Description

A lone boatman appears from behing the rocks, looking forward. Above him and slightl foregrounded arches a tree, and behind him lay a series of trees and rocks. Black dots are used to accent the rocks, and repeating patterns indicate leaves on trees. Red seals are in the lower left and lower right corners, and a third is at the end of the block of calligraphic text at top right.

Artist Life Dates

early 17th century

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1596

Accession Number

1976/1.224

Medium and Support

album leaf matted to frame, ink on gold paper

relevance

rank 19.02481

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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watercraft

watercraft by general type

writing (processes)

Title

Redoubt

Artist

Charles Clough

Physical Description

High-gloss abstract expressionist painting of a large Africa-shaped form in red against black ground. Clough’s unique way of applying paint to the canvas results in a highly articulated and densely textured surface. “In place of the brush and other typical painter's tools, Clough uses an instrument he calls the ‘Big Finger,’ a large balloon-like contraption that he invented to spread poured house enamel on masonite into broad gestural constellations.” (Max Henry, “charles clough,” http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/henry/henry2-5-99.asp)

Artist Life Dates

b. 1951

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1990

Accession Number

2008/2.225

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 18.96244

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

image-making processes and techniques

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styles and periods by region

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 18.87624

Secondary Keywords

animals

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descriptors

geography

hindu

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people

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religion

religions

reptiles

reptiles and amphibians

subject matter

the natural world

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 18.70072

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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weather-related phenomena

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 18.67880

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

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Title

Portrait of a Woman

Artist

Anonymous American

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1940.385

Medium and Support

oil on canvas, mounted on panel

relevance

rank 18.64408

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

figures

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Title

Now the Dove and the Leopard Wrestle

Artist

Romare Bearden

Physical Description

This painting features animal part shapes in abstract forms in blues, ochres, green and red colors. It is expressive in the different movements of the animals.

Artist Life Dates

1911 - 1988

Object Creation Date

1946

Accession Number

2012/1.225

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 18.41330

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

birds

descriptors

european

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Title

Untitled

Artist

Cåndido Portinari

Physical Description

An abstract painting done in various shades of grays, browns and greens. The background is painted in thick, unblended horisontal strokes. A group of men, one dressed in blue robes and the rest nude, extend their arms and a white flag, possibly in a sign of surrender or possibly for rescue. All are facing away from the viewer except for one, who is much paler than the others and looks quite emaciated. They appear to be floating on a raft but it is difficult to say if they are on water or land.

Artist Life Dates

Rio de Janeiro, 1903 - 1962, Rio de Janeiro

Object Creation Date

1910-1960

Accession Number

2009/1.483

Medium and Support

gouache on board

relevance

rank 18.37741

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

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Title

A Monument in Rouen

Artist

Hughie O'Donoghue

Physical Description

A collection of abstract landscape and figure with a photographic image. The figure, Christlike in its pose, runs up roughly the middle of the painting, looking also like a road or a path across the bleak landscape. In the upper left is a photographic image of some military trucks and a scaffold tower. Along the left half of the landscape, names of towns are written in the paint.

Artist Life Dates

born 1953

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1999-2000

Accession Number

2001/2.80

Medium and Support

oil and inkjet on gampi tissue on linen

relevance

rank 18.00836

Secondary Keywords

armed conflicts

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wars

world wars

Title

The Roxanne Wars

Artist

Suzanne McClelland

Physical Description

Whites, greys, blacks and browns. The overall color is a light white while the concentration of color is a mass on the lower right hand side.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1959

Object Creation Date

2011

Accession Number

2012/2.109

Medium and Support

polymer and stainless steel pigment on canvas

relevance

rank 17.98087

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

european

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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 17.62195

Secondary Keywords

biological components

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plant components

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Title

La Justice Protégé les Arts

Artist

Gilles Demarteau

Physical Description

This crayon-manner engraving printed in sanguine depicts a grouping of figures arranged in a celestial space and positioned against clouds. A large female figure draped in cloth dominates the upper portion of the composition. She holds a set of scales in her left hand. Two female figures, one clothed, one nude, gather below at this figure’s sandaled feet in the center left of the composition. The clothed figure holds a palette and paintbrushes while the nude figure holds a mallet and a sculpted portrait of a man’s face. At the bottom right three male figures, one of whom wrestles a snake, appear to be attacking the female figure holding the palette. A clothed figure donning a helmet protects the figure holding the scales in the upper right.

Artist Life Dates

1729-1776

Object Creation Date

circa 1763-1767

Accession Number

2012/2.182

Medium and Support

crayon-manner engraving, printed in sanguine on heavy laid paper

relevance

rank 17.58592

Secondary Keywords

artistic concepts

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weighing devices by form

Title

Fire Engine Red

Artist

Dorothea Rockburne

Physical Description

Two large panels painted red panels of aluminum, situated against one another so that the seam is visible at center. A line of white runs along each panel's outer edge.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1932

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

1997/1.136.1-2

Medium and Support

wrinkle finish paint (oil) on aluminum

relevance

rank 17.31604

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

emergency vehicles

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Title

Sunset Corner

Artist

Helen Frankenthaler

Physical Description

A vast surface of orange yields in the very bottom of the painting to a swath of yellow, under which there is a line of white and green, and under that a thin black line.

Artist Life Dates

1928-2011

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1969

Accession Number

1973/1.813

Medium and Support

acrylic on canvas

relevance

rank 17.31419

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

daylight

descriptors

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Title

Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant)

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Physical Description

Two girls, depicted in bold geometric shapes and block colors, reading a book together. The figure seated at viewer's right, slightly taller, is green and wearing yellow. The figure at viewer's left has a face of blue and white and is clothed in red resting her clasped hands upon an open book.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1973

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

March 28, 1934

Accession Number

1994/1.67

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 17.17322

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

european

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Title

Portrait of Françoise (Buste de Femme)

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Physical Description

Bust portrait of woman. Her hair is brown, shoulder length, and curls at the bottom. Her high-collared blouse has off-white and light blue vertical stripes. She looks directly at the viewer

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1973

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

February 28, 1949

Accession Number

1994/1.68

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 17.03482

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

european

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Title

Red Trees on a Blue Lofty Peak

Artist

Pu Ru (P'u Ju)

Physical Description

A blue and green mountain looms over a lake, taking up the right portion of the picture. Above and to the left is calligraphic text and three red seals. In the lake below is a boat.

Artist Life Dates

1896-1963

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1951

Accession Number

1970/2.5

Medium and Support

ink and color on paper

relevance

rank 16.95068

Secondary Keywords

upward

associated concepts

buildings and the land

coating (material)

coating by form

descriptors

earth sciences concepts

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landforms

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writing (processes)

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 16.70764

Secondary Keywords

animals

animals and creatures

associated concepts

daylight

descriptors

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the natural world

Title

Untitled, Barn in Pennsylvania

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of a farmhouse in Pennsylvania. To the side of the building, three figures are standing along with a farm animal.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

circa 1950

Accession Number

2011/2.140

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 16.44084

Secondary Keywords

agricultural buildings

agricultural complexes

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built complexes and districts

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descriptors

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settlements and landscapes

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Title

Untitled, New York Sunset

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers against a sunset. A large cloud is set in the middle of the sky.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1985

Accession Number

2011/2.141

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 16.21934

Secondary Keywords

height

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buildings and the land

descriptors

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visual works by subject type

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

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 16.17313

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series

Artist

India, Rajasthan, Mewar School

Physical Description

Brightly colored painting with three primary registers. The uppermost and smallest register contains a poem. The lower two are larger and similar in size. The bottommost depicts stairs, architectural structures, snakes, and flowering plants. Above, the middle register frames a seated man under a canopy-like architectural form, who reaches out to grasp the wrist of a woman. Behind her is a flowering tree, and and the far right, and open door.

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1630

Accession Number

1980/2.242

Medium and Support

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 16.04296

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

buildings and the land

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descriptors

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stair components

stairs and stair components

steps and step components

trees

trees by leaf life

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

woody plants

writing (processes)

Title

Seated Harlequin (L'Arlequin assis)

Artist

Juan Gris

Physical Description

A massive harlequin figure, depicted in purples, greens, and yellow, sits in a chair at center, wearing a hat. A plate sits on the left armrest of the chair. The central composition of the seated harlequin is contained within a circular framework.

Artist Life Dates

1887-1927

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1923

Accession Number

1994/1.71

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 15.94473

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

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Title

New York Sky Some Clouds

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers. A water tower is visible over the top of a building on the left.

Artist Life Dates

1921-1999

Object Creation Date

circa 1980

Accession Number

2011/2.136

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 15.75375

Secondary Keywords

height

buildings and the land

descriptors

high-rise buildings

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reservoirs (water distribution structures)

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visual works by subject type

water distribution structures

Title

Still Life

Artist

Ben Nicholson

Physical Description

An angular bottle executed in two tones of white stands tall just to the (viewer's) right of center. To its left is a stack of gray drinking cups. Irregular blocks of various sizes and colors make up the rest of the field.

Artist Life Dates

1894-1982

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1945

Accession Number

1951/2.25

Medium and Support

oil on board

relevance

rank 15.64800

Secondary Keywords

bottles

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descriptors

drinking vessels

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vessels

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visual works

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Title

Still Life with Apples (Nature Morte aux Pommes)

Artist

Maurice de Vlaminck

Physical Description

A bowl containing apples rests in the center, flanked by two conical drinking cups.

Artist Life Dates

1876-1958

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1910

Accession Number

1984/1.288

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 15.63097

Secondary Keywords

containers

containers by function or context

containers for serving and consuming food

culinary containers

descriptors

drinking vessels

european

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genres

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vessels

vessels for serving and consuming food

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

visual works by subject type

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 15.57848

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

artistic concepts

associated concepts

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buildings and the land

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descriptors

european

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forms of expression

genres

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life

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scientific concepts

settlements and landscapes

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

visual works

visual works by subject type

Title

Northern Summer Window

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Physical Description

A vase with flowers sits before a window, between two books that lie on a table, and framed by open red curtains. The landscape outside the window shows a blue cloud sky above a body of water.

Artist Life Dates

1877 - 1943

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1936

Accession Number

1949/2.89

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 15.55613

Secondary Keywords

animals

architecture

atmospheric effects

bodies of water

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bodies of water by size

buildings and the land

containers

containers by form

descriptors

genres

geographic and political locations

herbaceous plants

image-making processes and techniques

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information forms

landscapes (environments)

marine bodies

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natural landscapes

north and central america (continent)

objects

objects we use

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paintings

paintings by material or technique

plants

processes and techniques

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seasons

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vegetation and vegetation components

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vessels

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

visual works by subject type

woody plants

Title

Landscape

Artist

Adolph Gottlieb

Physical Description

A landscape reduced to minimal abstract elements. The lower half of the painting is black. The upper half, various shades of white and blue. Two black squares are suspended in the white above the black. A small pale blue circle is between the squares.

Artist Life Dates

1903 - 1974)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1952

Accession Number

1968/1.81

Medium and Support

oil on board

relevance

rank 15.48332

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

buildings and the land

descriptors

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visual works

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Title

The Bullfight (Courses de taureaux)

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Physical Description

A bull in the center charges to the left toward a horse rearing up with a bullfighter on its back. The bullfighter leans forward to plunge a spear into the bull's shoulder area. Flags and spectator stands lie in the background.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1973

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1934

Accession Number

1994/1.70

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 15.42116

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

descriptors

european

european styles and periods

genres

image-making processes and techniques

mammals

modern and contemporary art

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objects we use

painting and painting techniques

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paintings

paintings by material or technique

people

people (agents)

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processes and techniques

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recreation structures

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

sports buildings

sports buildings by function

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Descent of the River Ganges

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Bundelkhand

Physical Description

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

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1775

Accession Number

1979/1.148

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 15.34332

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

asian

associated concepts

bodies of water

bodies of water and components of bodies of water

bodies of water by size

buildings and the land

components of bodies of water

descriptors

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religions and religious concepts

religious (people)

religious concepts

religious figures

religious ideologies

riverine bodies

scientific concepts

settlements and landscapes

the natural world

time

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 15.21149

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

buildings and the land

california (state)

daylight

descriptors

electromagnetic radiation

energy

energy and related concepts

european

european styles and periods

genres

geographic and political locations

image-making processes and techniques

international post-1945 styles and movements

landscapes (environments)

light (energy)

los angeles (county)

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non-representational art

north and central america (continent)

painting and painting techniques

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processes and techniques

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scientific concepts

settlements and landscapes

styles and periods

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united states (nation)

Title

Untitled, Bronx Storefronts

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of two storefronts. The first store is brightly painted, while the second one is in more neutral shades.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1985-1990

Accession Number

2011/2.135

Medium and Support

oil on board

relevance

rank 14.84204

Secondary Keywords

image form

architectural elements

buildings and the land

commercial buildings

components

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components by specific context

descriptors

enclosing structural elements

exterior walls

facades

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visual works

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walls

walls and wall components

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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 14.77205

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

atmospheric effects

buildings and the land

descriptors

dwellings

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the natural world

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

walkways

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

woody plants

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 14.76700

Secondary Keywords

massing or shape

architecture

buildings and the land

built complexes and districts

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complexes by function

cultural landscapes

cultural landscapes by location or context

descriptors

equipment

equipment by process

european

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genres

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the natural world

tools and equipment

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Title

D&H Rogue

Artist

Richard Francisco

Physical Description

Ombre orange and black abstract forms painted on paper cut out and attached to wood, laid on top of another larger cutout of pink abstract form with “shadows” from the cutout above it painted in red; the paper collage is centered on a large sheet of white paper. Signed “D[orothy] & H[erb] Rogue” in bottom left corner, “R. J. Francisco ‘82” in bottom right corner.

Artist Life Dates

(1942 - )

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1982

Accession Number

2008/2.229

Medium and Support

watercolor and ink wash on paper and painted wood

relevance

rank 14.54463

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

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associated concepts

concepts in the arts

descriptors

european

european styles and periods

forms of expression

image-making processes and techniques

materials

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objects we use

painting and painting techniques

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paintings

paintings by material or technique

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styles and periods

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visual works

visual works by medium or technique

wood and wood products

Title

A celebration of the rains

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School

Physical Description

Fresh greens for the foliage and dark blue clouds sprinkled with lightning set the rain celebration scene. Court ladies have gathered on the lawn, and some swing under a blossoming tree, while the raja and a woman watch the exciement below from a balcony of his white palace.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

early 19th century

Accession Number

1964/2.114

Medium and Support

Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 14.42638

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

building divisions

buildings and the land

card, table and board game elements

components

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culture and related concepts

culture-related concepts

descriptors

dwellings

events

game pieces

houses

houses by occupants

image-making processes and techniques

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official residences

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people

people (agents)

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recreational artifacts

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rooms and spaces

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settlements and landscapes

single built works

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vegetation and vegetation components

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woody plants

Title

Pop Dots

Artist

Barbara Levine

Physical Description

Abstract shape rendered in Styrofoam that has been covered with modeling compound. Base with four columns, three of which have “pop dots” attached to them. Partially painted a bright minty green, which gets darker in the “back” of the sculpture (the side that doesn’t have dots).

Artist Life Dates

(1953 - )

Object Creation Date

1988

Accession Number

2008/2.243

Medium and Support

oil on modeling compound-covered Styrofoam

relevance

rank 12.85557

Secondary Keywords

relation to water

visual arts

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associated concepts

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descriptors

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