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Portrait of a Man; Anonymous American

Title: Portrait of a Man
Artist: Anonymous American
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1895.75
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
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Secondary Keywords: objects we use; paintings; paintings by material or technique; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

UtopianCannibal.org; Enrique Chagoya

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Title: UtopianCannibal.org
Artist: Enrique Chagoya
Physical Description: Codex book connected by a series of eight accordian folds composed of lithographs, woodcuts, chine collé, and collage. The work reads right to left with the rightmost page titled "UtopianCannibal.org" and the leftmost page with the single word "Fin" (translates to "end").
Artist Life Dates: born 1953
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 2000
Accession Number: 2001/2.81
Medium and Support: color lithograph, woodcut, chine collé, and collage
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Secondary Keywords: allegory and literature; american regions; art genres; artistic concepts; artistic devices; associated concepts; concepts in the arts; how we live; north american; objects we use; people and culture; people and occupations; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; visual works; visual works by function

Drum; Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Title: Drum
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1983/2.171
Medium and Support: wood, animal skin and plant fibers
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Secondary Keywords: single-headed; descriptors; drums (membranophones); materials; materials by origin; membranophones; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; sound devices; sound devices by acoustical characteristics; struck drums; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; tubular drums; wood and wood products

Firescreen from the entrance hall of the Henry O. Havemeyer house, New York; Louis Comfort Tiffany

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Title: Firescreen from the entrance hall of the Henry O. Havemeyer house, New York
Artist: Louis Comfort Tiffany
Physical Description: Firescreen consists of a rectangular metal frame with glass and metal elements set in rectangular (largely geometric) framing patterns around a central panel of white and purple vertical glass rods. Along the bottom is a border of white, amber, and green glass circular elements in a more naturalistic pattern evoking grapes.
Artist Life Dates: 1848-1933
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1890-1891
Accession Number: 1986.146.10
Medium and Support: gilt metal and opalescent favarile glass
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Secondary Keywords: components; components and systems; components by specific context; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; furniture by form or function; objects we use; screens (furniture)

Frenchman's Cove I Table; George Nakashima Woodworkers

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Title: Frenchman's Cove I Table
Artist: George Nakashima Woodworkers
Object Creation Date: early 1950
Accession Number: 2014/2.99A&B
Medium and Support: walnut
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Secondary Keywords: arts and related disciplines; arts-related disciplines; descriptors; disciplines; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; humanities; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; wood and wood products

Wall Mounted Cabinet; George Nakashima Woodworkers

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Title: Wall Mounted Cabinet
Artist: George Nakashima Woodworkers
Object Creation Date: early 1950
Accession Number: 2014/2.101
Medium and Support: walnut and woven pandanus cloth
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Secondary Keywords: arts and related disciplines; arts-related disciplines; descriptors; disciplines; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; humanities; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; wood and wood products

Unititled; Sonia Sheridan

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Title: Unititled
Artist: Sonia Sheridan
Artist Life Dates: born 1925
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1991
Accession Number: 2000/2.9.4
Medium and Support: color digital photograph on paper
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Secondary Keywords: image form; biological components; components; components and systems; components by specific context; hands; human body; objects we use; people and occupations; the human body; the natural world; upper body; views; views by vantage point or orientation; visual works; visual works by form

Grass-Seated Chair (two of four); George Nakashima Woodworkers

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Title: Grass-Seated Chair (two of four)
Artist: George Nakashima Woodworkers
Object Creation Date: early 1950
Accession Number: 2014/2.98.2
Medium and Support: walnut frame with woven grass seats
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Secondary Keywords: arts and related disciplines; arts-related disciplines; descriptors; disciplines; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; humanities; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; wood and wood products

Grass-Seated Chair (four of four); George Nakashima Woodworkers

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Title: Grass-Seated Chair (four of four)
Artist: George Nakashima Woodworkers
Object Creation Date: early 1950
Accession Number: 2014/2.98.4
Medium and Support: walnut frame with woven grass seats
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Secondary Keywords: arts and related disciplines; arts-related disciplines; descriptors; disciplines; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; humanities; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; wood and wood products

Single Pedestal Desk; George Nakashima Woodworkers

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Title: Single Pedestal Desk
Artist: George Nakashima Woodworkers
Object Creation Date: early 1950
Accession Number: 2014/2.100A&B
Medium and Support: figured walnut
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Secondary Keywords: arts and related disciplines; arts-related disciplines; descriptors; disciplines; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; humanities; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; wood and wood products

Unititled; Sonia Sheridan

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Title: Unititled
Artist: Sonia Sheridan
Artist Life Dates: born 1925
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1991
Accession Number: 2000/2.9.3
Medium and Support: color digital photograph on paper
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Secondary Keywords: image form; biological components; components; components and systems; components by specific context; hands; human body; objects we use; people and occupations; the human body; the natural world; upper body; views; views by vantage point or orientation; visual works; visual works by form

Credenza; George Nakashima Woodworkers

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Title: Credenza
Artist: George Nakashima Woodworkers
Object Creation Date: early 1950
Accession Number: 2014/2.102
Medium and Support: walnut and woven pandanus cloth
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Secondary Keywords: arts and related disciplines; arts-related disciplines; descriptors; disciplines; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; humanities; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; wood and wood products

Grass-Seated Chair (one of four); George Nakashima Woodworkers

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Title: Grass-Seated Chair (one of four)
Artist: George Nakashima Woodworkers
Object Creation Date: early 1950
Accession Number: 2014/2.98.1
Medium and Support: walnut frame with woven grass seats
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Secondary Keywords: arts and related disciplines; arts-related disciplines; descriptors; disciplines; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; humanities; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; wood and wood products

Lord Jaganatha with his brother Balarama and sister Subhadra; India, Orissa

Title: Lord Jaganatha with his brother Balarama and sister Subhadra
Artist: India, Orissa
Physical Description: This image has three large figures sitting in a row. The two slightly larger figures (one with a white face; left and the other with a black face; right) flank a smaller yellow faced figure. Painted in a distinct blue-background strip beneath these large figures are several smaller figures. Next to three of these figures are trays holding food.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1969
Accession Number: 2002/2.192
Medium and Support: ink and opaque watercolor on cotton
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Secondary Keywords: visual arts; asia (continent); associated concepts; concepts in the arts; geographic and political locations; historical, theoretical and critical concepts; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by state or condition; religions; religions and religious concepts; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Grass-Seated Chair (three of four); George Nakashima Woodworkers

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Title: Grass-Seated Chair (three of four)
Artist: George Nakashima Woodworkers
Object Creation Date: early 1950
Accession Number: 2014/2.98.3
Medium and Support: walnut frame with woven grass seats
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Secondary Keywords: arts and related disciplines; arts-related disciplines; descriptors; disciplines; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; humanities; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; plant material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the americas; wood and wood products

Untitled, (Guatamala, foreground boat); Brett Weston

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Title: Untitled, (Guatamala, foreground boat)
Artist: Brett Weston
Physical Description: A black and white photo of boats left on sandbanks. In the background, men stand by a group of wooden huts.
Artist Life Dates: 1911-1993
Object Creation Date: 1976
Accession Number: 2011/2.148
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
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Secondary Keywords: color; bodies of water and components of bodies of water; buildings and the land; landscapes (environments); natural landscapes; objects we use; photographs; photographs by form; settlements and landscapes; transportation vehicles; vehicles; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; watercraft; watercraft by general type

Black Spot; James Brown

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Title: Black Spot
Artist: James Brown
Artist Life Dates: born 1952
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1982
Accession Number: 1997/1.113
Medium and Support: oil and enamel on canvas
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Secondary Keywords: image form; biological components; components; components and systems; components by specific context; genres; hands; human body; modern and contemporary art; objects we use; the human body; the natural world; upper body; views; views by vantage point or orientation; visual works; visual works by form

Straw Jewelry (six strings and four pieces); Artist Unknown, African

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Title: Straw Jewelry (six strings and four pieces)
Artist: Artist Unknown, African
Physical Description: Multiple pieces of straw jewelry. Some have strands of bright blue beads with them and others are on brown string.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2010/2.4
Medium and Support: straw, string
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Secondary Keywords: costume; costume accessories; costume accessories worn; descriptors; object genres; object genres by function; object genres by material; objects we use

Downtown Detroit; Carlos Lopez

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Title: Downtown Detroit
Artist: Carlos Lopez
Artist Life Dates: 1908-1953
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1947
Accession Number: 1956/1.90
Medium and Support: gouache on paper
relevance: rank 0.29688
Secondary Keywords: americas; buildings and the land; freewheeled vehicles; freewheeled vehicles by form or function; land vehicles; land vehicles by form; locality; lower peninsula; michigan; modern and contemporary art; north & central america; objects we use; open spaces and site elements; passenger vehicles; site elements; transportation vehicles; united states; vehicles

Palm wine cup; Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo

Title: Palm wine cup
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description: Cylindrical, wood carved cup with geometric motifs and linear, interlocking surface designs that cover the entire surface of the object.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1940
Accession Number: 1983/1.372
Medium and Support: wood
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Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; containers; containers by function or context; containers for serving and consuming food; culinary containers; descriptors; design elements; drinking vessels; motifs; objects we use; people and culture; social science concepts; social status; sociological concepts; vessels for serving and consuming food

Palm Wine Drinking Horn; Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo

Title: Palm Wine Drinking Horn
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Kuba Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description: Buffalo horn with concentric circles, geometric shapes and beadlike bands carved in relief follow the natural contours of the horn to its pointed tip. Has a local repair—a metal suture sewn at the mouth to stabilize a crack. Has cord pierced through tip.
Century: late 18th - early 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1800-1850
Accession Number: 2005/1.209
Medium and Support: buffalo horn
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Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; containers; containers by function or context; containers for serving and consuming food; culinary containers; descriptors; design elements; drinking vessels; motifs; objects we use; people and culture; social science concepts; social status; sociological concepts; vessels for serving and consuming food

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A short glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder which at the top is attached to a shallow dish. At the bottom of the base as well as a circle on the top of the dish there is some discoloration and morphing of the ceramic.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.44
Medium and Support: glazed porcelain
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A glazed porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a narrow tapered cylinder with a ridged pattern on it. On top of it is a wide and shallow dish.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.46
Medium and Support: glazed porcelain
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Untitled; Robert F. George

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Robert F. George
Physical Description: Two standing girls speaking to three seated girls on a city street with stores surrounding.
Object Creation Date: 1998
Accession Number: 2014/2.140
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
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Secondary Keywords: buildings and the land; objects we use; open spaces; open spaces and site elements; open spaces by function; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by age group; roads; roads by form; transportation spaces; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; youth

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A tall glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder which widens at the top into a shallow dish. At the bottom of the base as well as a circle on the top of the dish there is some discoloration and morphing of the ceramic, most likely through use.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.39
Medium and Support: glazed porcelain
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A glazed porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide cylinder which tapers sharply into a narrow top. The base supports a wide, almost flat disk as the bowl.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.48
Medium and Support: glazed porcelain
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A tall glazed and speckled white-blue porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder. Where the base of the dish and the top of the base meet there is a bowl-shape ring as the bottom of the dish and a wide angled lip that surrounds it.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.41
Medium and Support: ceramic
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A tall glazed and speckled white-blue porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide, slightly tapered cylinder. The dish a the top is quite wide and shallow until it reaches the point of the base, where there is a deep hole in the cylinder of the base.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.43
Medium and Support: glazed porcelain
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A tall glazed and speckled porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a narrow and sharply tapered cylinder which meets an angular bottom of a dish. The dish itself is wide and shallow.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.45
Medium and Support: glazed porcelain
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

The warrior Watanabe no Tsuna battling the demoness Ibaraki (okimono); Gyokubun

Title: The warrior Watanabe no Tsuna battling the demoness Ibaraki (okimono)
Artist: Gyokubun
Artist Life Dates: 20th century
Century: 19th century?
Object Creation Date: late 19th century - early 20th century
Accession Number: 2002/2.43
Medium and Support: ivory
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Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; armed conflicts; attributes and properties; attributes and properties by specific type; descriptors; events; form attributes; legendary creatures; objects we use; people and culture; size (extent); size by specific type; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A glazed and speckled porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a wide decorated cylinder which tapers sharply into a narrow top. The base supports a wide, shallow bowl.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.47
Medium and Support: glazed porcelain
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Altar Dish; Artist Unknown, Korea

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Title: Altar Dish
Artist: Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description: A short glazed and speckled gray porcelain offering dish for an altar. The base is a small, tapered cylinder which then becomes the base of a slighlt deep dish. The gray glaze has some green coloration throughout the piece.
Object Creation Date: 1000-1800
Accession Number: 2009/2.40
Medium and Support: glazed porcelain
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Secondary Keywords: asian; ceremonial containers; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; east asian; liturgical containers; liturgical vessels; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; pottery (object genre); stoneware; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Erotic Caricature; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Title: Erotic Caricature
Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Physical Description: A crouched figure on the left side with large ears and large mouth holds it's own genetalia. There are two woman figures on the right side with backs to the crouched man. The women are fainter and harder to see in the drawing.
Artist Life Dates: 1864-1901
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1864-1901
Accession Number: 1997/1.106
Medium and Support: graphite on cloth
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Secondary Keywords: image form; figures (representations); objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; physical activities; physical activities by general context; visual works; visual works by form; visual works by subject type

Dragons; Robert W. Chatelain

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Title: Dragons
Artist: Robert W. Chatelain
Physical Description: wood and purple resin vase with gold leaf
Artist Life Dates: born 1945
Century: late 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1997
Accession Number: 2002/2.126
Medium and Support: black cherry burl, violet pigmented epxoy resin and gold inlay
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Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; containers; containers by form; descriptors; legendary creatures; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; plant material; processes and techniques; processes and techniques by material; processes and techniques by specific type; wood and wood products

Feathered Hat; Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon

Title: Feathered Hat
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1983
Accession Number: 1983/1.100
Medium and Support: feathers and woven fiber
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Secondary Keywords: accessories worn on the head; animal material; costume; costume accessories; costume accessories worn; descriptors; headgear; keratinous material; materials; materials by origin; objects we use; people and culture; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Frederick Douglass; Ben Shahn

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Title: Frederick Douglass
Artist: Ben Shahn
Physical Description: Black and white lithograph, three quarter portrait representation of Fredrick Douglass: A man is potrayed with curly hair and beard, a stern facial expression, and a formal suit and bowtie. His head and gaze is turned to the right of the piece. The words "Frederick Douglass" border the piece along with two copies of the artist's signature and the screenprint number .
Object Creation Date: 1965
Accession Number: 2011/1.110
Medium and Support: serigraph on paper
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Secondary Keywords: costume; costume by form; main garments; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; prints; prints by process or technique; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Fragment of base of a seated Buddha, with incense burner, lion, and attendant; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Fragment of base of a seated Buddha, with incense burner, lion, and attendant
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 6th-7th century
Object Creation Date: circa 580 - 620
Accession Number: 1964/2.24
Medium and Support: marble
relevance: rank 0.29670
Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; associated concepts; buddhist doctrinal concepts; containers; containers by function or context; descriptors; doctrinal concepts; mammals; object genres; object genres by form; objects we use; people and culture; religions; religions and religious concepts; religious concepts

Stool; Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Bamoun

Title: Stool
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Bamoun
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.314
Medium and Support: carved wood
relevance: rank 0.29668
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; furniture by form or function; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; single seating furniture

Large Leather Purse; Artist Unknown, African

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Title: Large Leather Purse
Artist: Artist Unknown, African
Physical Description: A large leather purse shaped like an arrow. The purse is almost completely bordered with fringe and has green red, and orange decorative badges on it.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2010/2.3
Medium and Support: leather
relevance: rank 0.29668
Secondary Keywords: bags (costume accessories); containers; containers by form; costume; costume accessories; costume accessories carried; descriptors; object genres; object genres by function; objects we use

Ekpo Society Mask; African, Ibibio

Title: Ekpo Society Mask
Artist: African, Ibibio
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1940
Accession Number: 1985/1.148
Medium and Support: wood, egg shell
relevance: rank 0.29668
Secondary Keywords: accessories worn on the head; costume; costume accessories; costume accessories worn; costume by function; objects we use; people and culture; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee; Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School

Title: Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
Physical Description: This is a brightly colored painting on a light background. It depicts a three- tiered scene with several figures, standing and kneeling, looking toward a central seated figure in the top tier. This male figure is seated in lotus position on a throne, decorated with colorful designs. To his left and right are attendants who fan him. In the middle tier, there is a nude man with long hair, a kneeling woman and a figure who is half-man and half-serpent. In the bottom tier, there are two kneeling men, wearing robes and headdresses, with hands pressed together and eyes gazing upward toward the main figure. They are surrounded by a tiger, a bird, an insect and a serpent.
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.167
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
relevance: rank 0.29667
Secondary Keywords: animals; animals and creatures; mammals; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by activity; people by state or condition; physical activities; physical activities by general context; religious figures; reptiles; reptiles and amphibians; the natural world; visual works; visual works by subject type

The Tidal Wave - 95 Ships Launched; Joseph Clement Coll; Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore, New York (printer)

Title: The Tidal Wave - 95 Ships Launched
Artist: Joseph Clement Coll
Artist Life Dates: 1881-1921
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: July 4, 1918
Accession Number: 1954/2.35.24
Medium and Support: color lithograph on paper
relevance: rank 0.29661
Secondary Keywords: animals; armed conflicts; armed forces; army; declaratory and advertising artifacts; events; fighting; horsemen; how we live; information artifacts; information artifacts by function; information forms; mammals; military; modern and contemporary art; objects we use; organizations; people and culture; people and occupations; ships; soldiers; text-based art; the natural world; war; waterscapes; world wars

A Woman in an Evening Dress, Singing; Constantin Guys

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Title: A Woman in an Evening Dress, Singing
Artist: Constantin Guys
Physical Description: A sketch drawing of a woman in an evening dress. Her face and mouth are drawn in a way to show the action of singing as the title suggests. In her right hand she is holding her gown; she is leaning forward that might suggest she is moving while singing, as one would in a performance.
Artist Life Dates: (1802 - 1892)
Object Creation Date: 1825-1892
Accession Number: 2009/1.503
Medium and Support: graphite on paper
relevance: rank 0.29660
Secondary Keywords: costume; costume by form; dresses; dresses by form; entertainment events; events; main garments; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

El Regalo de Anita; Emilio Sanchez

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Title: El Regalo de Anita
Artist: Emilio Sanchez
Physical Description: A color print of a group of children walking.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1921
Object Creation Date: 1971
Accession Number: 2011/2.124
Medium and Support: color lithograph on paper
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Secondary Keywords: objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by family relationship; physical activities; physical activities by general context; prints; prints by process or technique; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Untitled; Artist Unknown; Santonan

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Artist Unknown
Physical Description: Anstract print with aggressive lines in black, yellow, green, grey and white.
Object Creation Date: 1960
Accession Number: 2014/2.205
Medium and Support: color etching and aquatint on paper
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Secondary Keywords: international post-1945 styles and movements; objects we use; people and culture; post-1945 fine arts styles and movements; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Untitled; Grace Hartigan

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Title: Untitled
Artist: Grace Hartigan
Physical Description: A black and white ink print.
Artist Life Dates: (active 1922 - 2008)
Object Creation Date: 1960
Accession Number: 2011/1.63
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
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Secondary Keywords: coating (material); coating by form; descriptors; materials; materials by function; objects we use; photographic prints; photographic prints by color; photographs; photographs by form; positives; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

(Boy with Puppy) Knoxville, from "Knoxville, Tennessee"; Danny Lyon

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Title: (Boy with Puppy) Knoxville, from "Knoxville, Tennessee"
Artist: Danny Lyon
Physical Description: Two boys, one in the driver's seat of a car, one standing and leaning on the car. He is wearing a dirty white striped button down shirt holding a dark colored puppy. He is looking to the side.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1942
Object Creation Date: 1967; printed 2010
Accession Number: 2013/2.344
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
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Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; freewheeled vehicles; freewheeled vehicles by form or function; land vehicles; land vehicles by form; mammals; objects we use; passenger vehicles; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; transportation vehicles; vehicles

Daniel Intervening on Behalf of Susanna; Hans Collaert I

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Title: Daniel Intervening on Behalf of Susanna
Artist: Hans Collaert I
Physical Description: A large gathering of figures looks toward a young male figure gesticulating to the crowd on the right with his back to the viewer. Two imposing older male figures are positioned to the left of the young man. The architectural cityscape recedes perspectivally in the distance. A large domed building looms over the horizon line.
Artist Life Dates: c. 1530-1581
Object Creation Date: circa 1579
Accession Number: 2012/2.224
Medium and Support: engraving on medium off-white laid paper
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Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, flanked by two donor figures and with a mandorla of the seven Buddhas of the past (fragment of a stele); Artist Unknown, China

Title: Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, flanked by two donor figures and with a mandorla of the seven Buddhas of the past (fragment of a stele)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 6th century
Object Creation Date: circa 500-550
Accession Number: 1964/1.89
Medium and Support: stone
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Deep bowl with vegetal and calligraphic designs; Iran, Nishapur

Title: Deep bowl with vegetal and calligraphic designs
Artist: Iran, Nishapur
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century
Accession Number: 1961/1.185
Medium and Support: fritware with painted designs in red, yellow, and dark brown
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Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; containers; containers by form; descriptors; image-making processes and techniques; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; processes and techniques; processes and techniques by specific type; religions; religions and religious concepts; vessels; writing (processes)

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