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- Title
- Stones from the River, vessel 13/22
- Artist
- Dan Kvitka
- Physical Description
- On a large, sinuous platform, twenty-two finished wood pieces are nestled within their respective positions; the pieces are comprised of large and small flat cylindrical shapes in shades of red and black.
- Artist Life Dates
- (active Los Angeles, California, 1958 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2000
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.153N
- Medium and Support
- Nigerian black ebony
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- The Thames
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
- Physical Description
- This work portrays a view across a river, whose surface is dotted with shipping. Drawn from a very high vantage point, a roadway is seen through a screen of nearly leafless trees at the bottom of the image; in the distance the far bank of the shore is congested with buildings, some towers--particularly a large one to the right of center--and smoke blowing away and to the right from the viewer can be seen.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1834-1903
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1896
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.463
- Medium and Support
- Lithotint with scraping on a prepared half-tint ground on heavy wove paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Hidden Garden (or Suspended Redwood Flora)
- Artist
- Ronald F. Fleming
- Artist Life Dates
- (active Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1937 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1994
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.135
- Medium and Support
- sandblasted walnut
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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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
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Very Very Cherries
- Artist
- Mark Bressler
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1951
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2004
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.83A
- Medium and Support
- maple, lacquer and silver
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Bowl with fish design on interior
- Artist
- Edwin and Mary Scheier
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.202
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Articulation: Formulation, from the portfolio "Formulation: Articulation"
- Artist
- Josef Albers
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born Germany, 1888-1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1972
- Accession Number
- 1983/1.336.46
- Medium and Support
- screenprint on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Red Mesa Black on White Chaco Branch Vessel
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Native American, Anasazi
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1000
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.18
- Medium and Support
- earthenware
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Illuminated Landscape
- Artist
- Chet LaMore
- Physical Description
- Nocturnal scene with landscape populated by otherworldly pink, green, and blue flora and fauna resembling marine life or celestial bodies.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1908-1980
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1948
- Accession Number
- 1982/1.199
- Medium and Support
- casein on board
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Woman Combing her Hair
- Artist
- Frans Wildenhain
- Physical Description
- A vertical abstract sculpture with a ledge and a bowl. The base is an inverted "V" shape.
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1905
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1905-1960
- Accession Number
- 1960/1.182
- Medium and Support
- glazed stoneware
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- (Buildings)
- Artist
- Sears Gallagher
- Artist Life Dates
- 1869-1955
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1926
- Accession Number
- 1940.157
- Medium and Support
- etching on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Front door to the Henry O. Havemeyer house, New York (one of a pair)
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- One of a pair of doors that formed an arched entryway. In the upper two thirds of the door are opalescent square glass "coffers" in an arched composition that corresponds to the silhouette of the doors. The interior-facing side of the doors include curvilinear lead caming, inset with medium-sized beach stones, that frame the glass "coffers". The exterior-facing side of the doors has the "coffers" framed by patinated copper sheeting.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1890-1891
- Accession Number
- 1986.146.3A
- Medium and Support
- wood, copper, stone and favrile glass
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Lincoln Center/Dusk, from "City-Scapes Portfolio"
- Artist
- Fran Bull
- Physical Description
- This screenprint depicts two sculptures jutting from a pool in the center right of the composition. The pool takes up the bottom half of the print, and shows the reflections from the top half of the scene. Two trees are at the left with a tall building in the background behind them, and a building with large windows takes up the background in the right two-thirds of the composition.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1938
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1979
- Accession Number
- 1991/1.66.5
- Medium and Support
- screenprint on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Spring Shoreline, East Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan
- Artist
- Gregory D. Seman
- Artist Life Dates
- born1959
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2003
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.149
- Medium and Support
- selenium-toned gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Pillars
- Artist
- Josef Albers
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born Germany, 1888-1976
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.74
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Auburndale Site, Highland Park, MI, #5
- Artist
- Object Orange
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2007
- Accession Number
- 2007/2.4
- Medium and Support
- iris print on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Studio Self-Portrait with Lucille
- Artist
- Edgar Levy
- Artist Life Dates
- (active 1907 - 1975 )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1932
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.64
- Medium and Support
- ink on vellum
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- One of a Pair of Casement Windows from the Darwin Martin House, Buffalo, NY
- Artist
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Physical Description
- One of a pair of windows with a highly regular, rectilinear, although asymetric, design in both clear and colored glass. Window has an oak frame. Window design consists of vertical and horizontal bands of green and amber colorerd glass at top and bottom of window; along one side are colored squares of glass; along the other is a chevron-shaped column of glass. The overall effect is of colored pieces of glass suspended within a clear window subdivided by abstract bands and patterns of lead caming.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1867-1959
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1904
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.53
- Medium and Support
- glass, oak and lead
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- (Rocks and Sea)
- Artist
- Sears Gallagher
- Artist Life Dates
- 1869-1955
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1869-1955
- Accession Number
- 1940.178
- Medium and Support
- drypoint on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Miniature vase
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1896-1900
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.209
- Medium and Support
- iridescent red and gold glass
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Food Will Win the War - You cam here seeking Freedom - You must now help to preserve it - Wheat is needed for the allies - Waste nothing
- Artist
- Charles Edward Chambers
- Physical Description
- Text: Food Will Win the War - You cam here seeking Freedom - You must now help to preserve it - Wheat is needed for the allies - Waste nothing - United States Food Administration
- Artist Life Dates
- 1883-1941
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1917-1918
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.17
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Martin Luther King
- Artist
- Ben Shahn
- Physical Description
- A black and white wood engraving of Martin Luther King Jr. His mouth is open wide as if giving one of his famous speeches. Underneath his image is a quote of King's and his signature.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898-1969
- Object Creation Date
- 1968
- Accession Number
- 2011/1.103
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- 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
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Morning Orison
- Artist
- Guy Palazzola
- Artist Life Dates
- 1919-1978
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1977-1978
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.94
- Medium and Support
- acrylic on canvas
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Yellow - Black - Red, from "Sixteen Lithographs in Color"
- Artist
- Sol LeWitt
- Physical Description
- A suite of 15 lithographs and a composite gage in four colors hand drawn on aluminum plates and printed from those plates by hand. Printed in an edition of 50 on Italia paper by Landfall Press, Inc. Size: 23 x 23”. Contained in a paper box designed by Sol LeWitt with the cooperation of Service Bindery of Chicago, Ill.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1928-2007
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1971
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.61.13
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on Italia paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Southbank 2007
- Artist
- Liam Gillick
- Artist Life Dates
- British, b. 1964
- Object Creation Date
- 2007
- Accession Number
- 2008/1.150
- Medium and Support
- silkscreen on skateboard
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Pitcher
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- This small blown glass pitcher consists of bands of glass applied to the body of the vessel; as the pitcher was blown, the glass between the bands expanded, shaping the vessel into four lobes.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1896-1900
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.226
- Medium and Support
- iridescent glass
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Artist
- William Merritt Chase
- Physical Description
- Horizontal view of harbor scene with water, dock, and boats. Small figures and trees on pier in middle ground. WMC painted in green in lower right corner.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1849 - 1916
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1886-1890
- Accession Number
- 1961/1.170
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Du Paty de Clam, from "Dreyfus Affair"
- Artist
- Ben Shahn
- Physical Description
- A portrait of a man's profile. He is decorated in military attire and his uniform embellished with gold trimmings. Beneath the piece reads "Du Paty de Clam".
- Object Creation Date
- 1968
- Accession Number
- 2011/1.112.8
- Medium and Support
- pochoir print on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Highboy (Tall-Boy)
- Artist
- Anonymous American
- Physical Description
- Four layers of drawers, four legs on the bottom, the chest sits on top of the four legs, in two separate pieces.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.230A&B
- Medium and Support
- mahogany and pine
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Spawning
- Artist
- Gabor Peterdi
- Artist Life Dates
- Hungary, 1915 - 2001
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1952
- Accession Number
- 1952/2.13
- Medium and Support
- etching and engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Soap Bubbles, from "The Science Pictures"
- Artist
- Berenice Abbott
- Artist Life Dates
- 1898-1991
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1982
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.331.9
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Untitled (I do not always feel colored...), from Four Etchings
- Artist
- Glenn Ligon
- Physical Description
- Stencilled black capital letters on white background.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1960
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1992
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.13.2
- Medium and Support
- softground etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift aquatint on white Rives BF
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Art Attack
- Artist
- Keith Haring
- Physical Description
- Oak panel with screen print; signed K.Haring 88 along lower right edge.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1958 - 1990
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1988
- Accession Number
- 1991/1.137
- Medium and Support
- screenprint on oak panel
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Feeding Grounds
- Artist
- Mark Tobey
- Physical Description
- This is a vertical abstract drawing in tones of gold, brown, gray, black and white. It has a large rectangular form surrounded by a darker brownish background. Within the form are paint strokes, lines and shading.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1890-1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1954
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.545
- Medium and Support
- tempera on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Plywood with Roller Marks #1
- Artist
- John Clem Clarke
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1937
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1974
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.228
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Barn in Snow
- Artist
- Jean Paul Slusser
- Artist Life Dates
- 1886-1981
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1906-1981
- Accession Number
- 1982/2.29
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas board
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Garo Zareh Antreasian
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1922
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1962
- Accession Number
- 1964/1.116
- Medium and Support
- embossed color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Vase
- Artist
- Pewabic Pottery
- Physical Description
- Vessel with rounded body, short neck and wide mouth. Brown clay body with wiped on black slip is covered with a pearlescent thick sky blue glaze dripping down two-thirds of the vessel.
- Artist Life Dates
- 20th c.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1912
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.182
- Medium and Support
- brown clay body with sky blue glaze over black slip, wiped on
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Yellow Interior
- Artist
- Blanche Ackers
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1916
- Century
- late 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1987-2000
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.197
- Medium and Support
- marker, black ink, paper collage, crayon, graphite on white wove paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Monhegan Sketches: Landscape with Trees and Water
- Artist
- Warren Lombard
- Artist Life Dates
- 1855-1939
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1918
- Accession Number
- 1940.339
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Title
- Key and Cue No. 1182 (Remembrance has a rear and front)
- Artist
- Roni Horn
- Physical Description
- Aluminum shaft with block letters cast in black plastic.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1955
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1994
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.470
- Medium and Support
- cast plastic and aluminum
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Michigan Worker
- Artist
- George Vargas
- Physical Description
- Mixed media assemblage consisting of goggles, rusted sheets and pieces of metal, a padlock and two rusted bells hanging from a chain mounted on a wooden board with screws.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1948
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1985
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.153
- Medium and Support
- goggles, metal, hanging bells mounted on wood
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Landscape
- Artist
- Allan D'Arcangelo
- Artist Life Dates
- 1930-1998
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1968
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.77
- Medium and Support
- screenprint on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- The Hun - his Mark - Blot it Out with Liberty Bonds
- Artist
- James Allen St. John
- Artist Life Dates
- 1872-1957
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.94.2
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Keep 'Em Going!
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Text: Keep 'em Going! - "Every Bad order Locomotive is a Prussian soldier. Every live Locomotive is an American soldier. Let us get on top of the Prussian Locomotives and make American soldiers out of them"W. G. McAdoo - Director General of Railroads
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.117
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Vase
- Artist
- Pewabic Pottery
- Physical Description
- This tall, slender vase has a narrow mouth and a mottled iridescent glaze in tans, peach, and green. Throughout there is a pronounced crackle pattern in the glaze.
- Artist Life Dates
- 20th c.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1909
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.147
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with matte iridescent frosty-cream color glaze with delicate crackle
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Dawn, Autumn, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Tennessee, from the "Museum Set Edition"
- Artist
- Ansel Adams
- Artist Life Dates
- 1902-1984
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1948; printed 1981
- Accession Number
- 1988/1.92
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- Untitled Cube
- Artist
- Alvin D. Loving
- Physical Description
- A framework three-dimensional cube sits at an angle so that one of its corners appears to protrude from the center of the piece. The cube is gray, with dark gray shading on the shadowed edges, and dark and light yellow shading on the lit edges. The canvas is cut to the dimensions of the cube.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1935-2005
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1969
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.25
- Medium and Support
- acrylic on canvas
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
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- Title
- The Fruits of Victory - National War Garden Commission
- Artist
- Leonebel Jacobs
- Physical Description
- Text: The Fruits of Victory - Write for Free Book to National War Garden Commission - Washington, D.C. - Charles Lathrop Pack, President - P.S. Ridsdale, Secretary
- Artist Life Dates
- 1883-1967
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1918
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.53
- Medium and Support
- color lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.85366
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)