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Title
Ali Mountain Based on Sketches - 6
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Physical Description
One of six hanging scrolls in a series depicting the landscape of Ali Mountain, trees and hillside are shown below calligraphic text. The artist uses alternating wet ink washes for the misty clouds and dry flying-brushes for the large pine trees
Artist Life Dates
(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1965
Accession Number
2006/1.141
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink on paper
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Painting
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Title
Paracelsus- Stormy Petrel of Medicine, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
In the Renaissance "chemical kitchens" of Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), who boastfully called himself Paracelsus, many things were brewed: chemicals, polypharmacal mixtures, serious medical writings - and vitriolic, abusive attacks upon medical colleagues, religionists, and political officials. Swiss-born Paracelsus' controveries forced him to travel widely, move frequently. Labeled genius by some, quack by others, his medical effors got results, and patients liked him. He attacked medieval "sacred cows," Galen and Avicenna, helped turn medicine from them to rational research. He attempted to manufacture new remedies, and he advocated use of chemicals in medicine.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.11
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
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Title
A Girdle of Cloth
Artist
Ôbaku Kôsen
Artist Life Dates
1633-1695
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
1678-1692
Accession Number
2006/2.23
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Primary Object Classification
Painting
Title
Dipak Raga from Ragamala series
Artist
India, Rajasthan, Bundi-Kotah School
Physical Description
Two lovers sit in an elaborate, symmetrical marble palace, decorated with inlaid stone and a domed roof. Inside, a highly individualized prince sits near his lover and caresses her chin. Above the scene is a box containing calligraphic text.
Century
late 18th-early 19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1800
Accession Number
1985/1.134
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Painting
Title
Butterflies and Peach Blossoms
Artist
Artist Unknown, China
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1832
Accession Number
1980/1.220A
Medium and Support
fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on paper
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Painting
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Title
Rudolf Virchow and Cellular Pathology, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Just past his thirty-fourth year, in 1855, Dr. Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) while professor at Wurzburg University, Germany, propounded his theory of cellular pathology. Lecturing and demonstrating at this specially made desk in the Wurzburg Krankenhaus, the slight, short, fiery professor used microscopes to convince students that cells were reproduced from other cells, and that diseease results from disturbance of cells by injury or irritants. Later, in Berlin, Virchow continued to lead international medical thought, and to teach, to engage in research, to write, to edit, to explore new fields, and to serve his community politically, until his death in 1902. The "little doctor" was a medical giant.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.28
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
Portrait of a young man holding a copy of Milton's work
Artist
Ammi Phillips
Physical Description
Portrait of a young man seated in a chair wearing a dark jacket, white shirt with high collar and neck tie with red stick pin; holding a book in his right hand. Plain grayish-brown background; gold frame.
Artist Life Dates
1788-1865
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1823
Accession Number
2002/1.199
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a community of laymen
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
Physical Description
Eight worshippers sit to the right of a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk. They each raise beads in their hands. Below them a struggle is depicted. Two men in shorts wrestle, while a snake, tiger, and elephant rera up beside a fire.
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.169
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Charles Clough
Physical Description
Abstract expressionist painting done on a paper collage that has been cut along the edges of the brushstrokes. Some images visible under the paint: page from pornographic magazine (penis); text: “TOY GUNS”; reproductions of expressionist painting; close-up of a butterfly from National Geographic-type publication; car.
Artist Life Dates
born 1951
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1983
Accession Number
2008/2.226
Medium and Support
enamel on paper collage
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Title
The Era of Antibiotics, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
When Dr. Alexander Fleming, British bacteriologist who had discovered penicillin in 1928, heard in 1940 that Drs. Florey, Chain, and their "team" had isolated the antibiotic and had found it successful when tested on mice for efficary and toxicity, at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, he decided to visit them and see their work. The three men shared a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945. Cooperation of British and United States scientists, governments, and institutions developed mass production methods for penicillin; met wartime needs; launched new research. Antibiotics brough about a revolution in the practice of medicine. In the laboratory are: Drs. Fleming, Howard W. Florey, Ernst B. Chain, A.G. Sanders, E.P. Abraham, and Norman G. Heatley.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.44
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
Study for a Chapel in Vienna
Artist
Andrea Pozzo
Physical Description
This study depicts a rectangular chapel with the side walls bent outward at an angle in order to provide a clearer view of the decoration. The chapel design centers upon a sarcophagus placed beneath a painted altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, which are both set within a semicircular architectural projection that extends dynamically from the wall. On the left the pair of angels that support a large oval-shaped painting reach vigorously outward, their wings overlapping the pilasters. On the right appears another sarcophagus surmounted by a pair of putti. Leaning out from the oval niche above the sarcophagus is a female half-figure—probably a portrait of the deceased—making a gesture of devotion toward the altar.
Artist Life Dates
1642-1709
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1662-1709
Accession Number
1960/2.124
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
Medicinal plants; Leaf from an Arabic translation of the "De Materia Medica," by Dioscorides
Artist
Artist Unknown, Iran
Century
13th century
Object Creation Date
13th century
Accession Number
1957/2.1
Medium and Support
tempera on paper
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Painting
Title
Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia
Artist
Eugène Delacroix
Artist Life Dates
1798-1863
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1840
Accession Number
1968/2.75
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
Orchids Room
Artist
Unge (Taigan)
Physical Description
Horizontally oriented. Begins with two large characters then a series of folliage imagery proceeded by calligraphy. Ink on paper, hand scroll.
Artist Life Dates
1773-1850
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1823
Accession Number
1968/2.25
Medium and Support
handscroll, ink on paper
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Painting
Title
Bamboo and Rocks
Artist
Qian Zai (Ch'ien Tsai)
Physical Description
A vertical hanging scroll on white fabric. The image is in black ink on faded paper. A bamboo tree occupies most of the space. A signature is located in the middle on the left of the painting.
Artist Life Dates
1708-1793
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1787
Accession Number
1970/2.8
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Painting
Title
Fishermen Returning in the Evening Snow
Artist
Jiang Song (Chiang Sung)
Physical Description
Swift, spontaneous brushwork is used to capture a winter landscape. Two fishermen, wearing wide-brimmed straw hats and thatched grass rain capes, work their way through the heavy snow as they cross a bridge, carrying nets on their shoulders.
Artist Life Dates
(1478 - after 1567)
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
early 16th century
Accession Number
1976/2.139
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink on silk
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Painting
Title
Twilight
Artist
Charles Warren Eaton
Physical Description
Landscape painting with green marshy field in foreground, a grouping of trees in the middle ground on right side of canvas, and blue sky with patches of soft clouds above.
Artist Life Dates
1857-1937
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1892
Accession Number
1968/2.67
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
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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
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Title
Drawing RIII 7 (Interlacing Triangles)
Artist
Bridget Riley
Physical Description
pencil drawing and gouache on paper
Artist Life Dates
born 1931
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1972
Accession Number
1983/1.170
Medium and Support
gouache and pencil on paper
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Painting
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Title
The Seven Gods of Good Fortune
Artist
Kanô Hôkyô Shôun
Artist Life Dates
1637 - 1702
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1650-1699
Accession Number
2006/2.11
Medium and Support
ink and color on silk
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Painting
Title
Roses and Flowers in a Glass
Artist
Henri Fantin-Latour
Physical Description
This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.
Artist Life Dates
1836-1904
Century
19th-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1870-1890
Accession Number
1955/1.76
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
Portrait of a Man (a Sea Captain?)
Artist
Anonymous American
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1940.384
Medium and Support
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
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Title
Pair of Frogs
Artist
Wang Yachen
Artist Life Dates
1894-1983
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1964
Accession Number
2007/2.35
Medium and Support
ink and color
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Title
Studio Floor Still Life #7
Artist
Lucy Sallick
Artist Life Dates
born 1937
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1976
Accession Number
1981/2.180
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
Courtesan in procession
Artist
Kitagawa Utamaro
Physical Description
This is a portrait of courtesan and her attendant. The courtesan wears a kimono with overall cherry blossom patterns and a darker color cloak with fan, plover and wave design lining with overall cherry blossom design silk; the cloak is slipping from her right shoulder. Her obi is draped in front; it has overall hollyhock pattern. Her face is white; Her hair is sculpted like a balloon on the top and has broad wings to the side. Tortoise-shell comb and multiple hairpins adorn the hair. She is strolling toward the right. Her attendant is walking behind her, her face and body partially hidden by the courtesan. She wears the matching kimono with plover and wave design; her kimono has long sleeves (furisode), whose openings are tied with ribbons. Her obi, with peony and geometric design, is tied at the back. Her hair is in the similar shape as the courtesan but not too exaggerated. But she wears an enormous hair accessory consisting of cherry blossoms and tassels, made of silver. Her face is also in white. The painting is accompanied by poem written by Santô Kyôden with his signature and two seals. On the lower left, there are the artist's signature and seal. The mounting is made of silk brocade with embroidery in the design of clematis and millets.
Artist Life Dates
1754-1806
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1793-1795
Accession Number
1962/1.104
Medium and Support
ink, white pigment, and red color on paper
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Painting
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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
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Painting
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Title
Sutra Fragment, Calligraphy in Block Script
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Century
15th-19th century
Object Creation Date
15th century - 19th century
Accession Number
2006/2.32
Medium and Support
gold ink on indigo-dyed paper
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Painting
Title
Portrait of Maximilien-Sébastien Foy
Artist
Baron François Gérard
Physical Description
This portrait painting shows a full-length, life-size figure of a man. He is standing on the top of a mountain against the background of a sky with dark clouds and a rocky mountain range. He is facing the viewer but his gaze is directed to the right. He is dressed in a French military uniform of the Napoleonic time period, including black leather riding boots, a sabre and a large black cloak that billows in the wind. He holds his hat in his hands. His uniform decorations and medals are shown in great detail.
Artist Life Dates
1770-1837
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1826
Accession Number
2004/2.8
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
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Title
Checker Players
Artist
Milton Avery
Artist Life Dates
1885 - 1965
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1939
Accession Number
1962/2.5
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
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Title
Untitled 1 of 4
Artist
Terry Winters
Physical Description
This is an oil painting in a vertical format painted in tones of brown, white and black. It shows four circular forms and areas with thick paint applied in broad brushstokes.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1949
Century
late 20th - early 21st century
Object Creation Date
1983
Accession Number
2009/1.544
Medium and Support
oil on linen
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Painting
Title
The Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Artist
Sheng Maoye (Sheng Mao-yeh)
Physical Description
Handscroll depicting figures (42 men and 6 boys) in a landscape, most of whom are sitting along the banks of a stream as cups on lotus leaves float by. A small cluster of figures sits in a shelter over the water examining a handscroll. The painting includes an inscription, six artist’s seals and one collector’s seal.
Artist Life Dates
active 1594-164
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
1621
Accession Number
1974/1.244
Medium and Support
handscroll, ink and color on silk
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Painting
Title
Landscape with Geese
Artist
Lin Fengmian (Lin Feng-mien)
Physical Description
Sweeping brushstrokes of varying intensity convey the general landscape of this painting. More detailed brushwork is used to illustrate eight geese flying low amoung plants or reeds.
Artist Life Dates
1900-1991
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1965
Accession Number
1985/2.33
Medium and Support
Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
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Painting
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Title
Calligraphy
Artist
Bingwu He
Physical Description
Four kanji are written across the top of three lines, in a large size. The bottom two lines are roughly one-eighth the size of the top characters and stretch across the same width. Ink is black, ground is white paper. Calligraphy dedicated to the Universtiy of Michigan Museum of Art.
Artist Life Dates
born 1962
Century
21st century
Object Creation Date
2010
Accession Number
2010/1.312
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Painting
Title
Portrait of a Man
Artist
Anonymous British or American?
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1895.33
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
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Title
Landscape of the Seasons
Artist
Yi Sang-Beom
Physical Description
Ten-panel screen depicting similar mountain scenes over changing seasons. A spring scene begins on the right, gradually changing over the ten images to winter on the left. In an upper corner of each scene is a corresponding seasonal poetic inscription. These images are created using ink and color on paper, which was mounted on the upper two-thirds of each panel of the screen.
Artist Life Dates
1899-1978
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1943
Accession Number
2007/2.10
Medium and Support
ten-fold screen with ink and color on paper
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Painting
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Title
20 décembre 1952
Artist
Pierre Soulages
Physical Description
Abstract painting in muted colors with shades of blacks, browns, and white. The composition consists of bold diagonal lines and blocks of black, brown, and white.
Artist Life Dates
born 1919
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1952
Accession Number
1954/2.61
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Primary Object Classification
Painting
Title
Winter
Artist
Matsubayashi Keigetsu
Physical Description
An ink drawing of bare trees during a winter scene. Snow-covered mountains dominate the background. In the foreground among the trees is a person walking along a path towards what looks like a house with a thatched roof.
Artist Life Dates
Yamaguchi Pref., 1876-1963
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
Autumn 1922
Accession Number
1961/2.3
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
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Painting
Title
Figures from Chinese History: The Taoist Luo Gongyuan
Artist
Huang Shen
Physical Description
Paper mounted on aqua silk. There are three figures present in the image. The focal point is a cart full of fruit. There is calligraphy on the upper left hand side of the image, complete with two red seals. There is a Christies sticker on the bottom left corner of the mounting.
Artist Life Dates
1687-1766
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
1687-1766
Accession Number
1983/2.157
Medium and Support
album leaf, ink and color on paper
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Painting
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Title
Taiwan Cross-Island Highway (Section 1)
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Physical Description
A panoramic view of the highway cutting across the Tarako Gorges, laid out in four connecting hanging scrolls.
Inscription: “sublime and bright--what opens in this enormous curtain (the connected hanging scrolls).”
Artist Life Dates
(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1967
Accession Number
2006/1.104.1
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
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Title
Iris
Artist
Zheng Wei Lu (aka Willow Zheng)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
late 20th century
Accession Number
2006/2.16
Medium and Support
ink and colors on paper
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Painting
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Frank Stella
Physical Description
Two sets of concentric arcs of bright colors radiate toward one another from the lower left corner and the upper right corner.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1968
Accession Number
1993/2.6
Medium and Support
acrylic on canvas
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Painting
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Title
Church-on-the-Hill No.3
Artist
George L. K. Morris
Artist Life Dates
(1905 - 1975)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1951-1952
Accession Number
1962/2.14
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
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Title
The Salvation of the Elephant (Gaj Mokasha)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India
Physical Description
An elephant seems to walk on water from the bottom right corner of the composition, rising towards Vishnu in the upper left with a single lotus flower in its trunk. Vishnu, with 4 arms, steps on green hills surrounding the lotus covered pond, bending towards the elephant. Garuda flies in the upper right.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1815
Accession Number
2010/2.27
Medium and Support
paint on canvas
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Painting
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Title
Night Rain on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Physical Description
In this landscape a misty, meandering river is depicted with two boathouses along its banks. Reeds and other foliage grow lush along the banks, partially obscuring the boathouse in the foreground. Accompanying text is in the upper register.
Artist Life Dates
(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
last quarter of 20th century
Accession Number
2006/1.127
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink on paper
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Painting
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Title
Native Healing, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.4
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
Soldier
Artist
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe Neuville
Artist Life Dates
1835-1885
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1855-1885
Accession Number
1985/1.194
Medium and Support
oil on canvas mounted on board
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Painting
Title
Radha Showing Krishna his Reflection
Artist
India, Punjab Hills, Kangra School
Century
Early 19th century
Object Creation Date
early 19th century
Accession Number
1981/2.163
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Title
Summer Cactus
Artist
Eduardo Arcenio Chavez
Artist Life Dates
1917-1995
Century
20th century
Accession Number
1975/1.75
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
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Title
Benjamin Rush, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Professional, moral, and physical courage of Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) was taxed to exhaustion during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, capital of the the new United States of America. Those residents who could, fled; those who could not were decimated by disease. Horror and hysteria reigned. Hundreds died daily. Dr. Rush stayed, cared for patients, personally survived two attacks of fever. Though his heroic treatments were severly criticized, Rush was unswerving. Patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, leader in the country's first medical school, Dr. Rush came to be called the first great physician in the United States of America.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.21
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
Title
M. Bachelier, Director of Customs at Lyon (M. Bachelier, Directeur des fermes de
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Physical Description
M. Bachelier is shown seated at a desk dressed in a high powdered wig and sumptous gold-embroidered velvet coat and waistcoat. Behind the figure is a rich cloth, pulled back to reveal columns. On the elaborately carved desk are papers and a writing set. M. Bachelier extends his left hand towards the viewer, suggesting that we have interepted him while writing at his des. The painting's coloring consists of rich burgundy red, green, tan and gold.
Artist Life Dates
1686-1755
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
1715
Accession Number
1968/1.76
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Painting
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