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Title

Human Anatomy, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, first great teacher of anatomy from natural observations, conducted many anatomical demonstrations on human bodies while Professor of Surgery and of Anatomy at the University of Padua, 1537-1543. Highly successful, these were attended by medical students, physicians, interested civic officials, sculptors and artists. First to break with Galen's 1400-year-old anatomical texts, Vesalius published "Tabulae Anatomicae Sex" in 1538, and the monumental "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" in 1543. Though reviled and ridiculed by Galenists, the validity of Vesalius' works soon overcame detractors and they became classic in medical literature.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.12

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Hemholtz: Physicist- Physician, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Among great contributions to medicine in the nineteenth century was the ophthalmoscope, an instrument used for inspection of the interior of they eye, invented in 1850 by Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894), Professor of Physiology at Königsberg. Physician by training and teacher by profession, Helmholtz became Germany's foremost physicist, succeeding to the Chair of Physics at the University of Berlin. His contributions to the knowledge of acoustics nearly equaled those he made to physiologic optics. His discoveries in physics advanced knowledge in a dozen scientific fields, earned him ennoblement, and brought him eminence, distinction, and world-wide recognition.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.29

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Medicine Today and Tomorrow, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Medicine is ancient, yet ever new. The scientific discoveries and advances resulting from work of countless thousands of dedicated medical men throughout fifty centuries are at the command of today's physician, and through him, brought to focus upon the needs of sick patients. Never before in the world's history have people had the medical advantages available today. Physicians, research scientists, specialists in production and distribution, are all collaborating in a constant effort to improve medical service and to make available better diagnoses, better treatment, and better medicines for a better world.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.45

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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The Temples and Cult of Asclepius, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Every night for nearly a thousand years (500 B.C. - 500 A.D.), sick and afflicted pilgrims flocked to the Grecian Temples of Asclepius to take part of a ritual called incubation. The ancient kindly god of medicine was expected to visit them during a dream state and either heal or prescribe drugs, diet, and modes of treatment. Only requisites were that they should be clean and "think pure thoughts." To show their appreciation, recipients of Asclepius' favor caused votives (stone or terra cotta images of the afflicted parts which supposedly had been healed) to be made, suitably inscribed, and presented to be hung as testimony on the temple walls. More than 200 such temples existed.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.5

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Title

Pinel Unchains the Insane, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

The Father of Psychiatry, French physician Philippe Pinel, in 1795 ordered chains and fetters removed from insame women in the Salpêtrière, large Parisian hospital. Two years earlier, he had similarily unchained insane men in the Bicêtre. Despite political and medical opposition and uncertainties of life during the hectic period of the French Revolution, Pinel persisted in replacing cruelty and inhumanity with understanding, kindness, and rational therapy. His success in curing and relieving patients suffering from mental diseases opened new perspectives for psychiatric research and practice.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.22

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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Walter B. Cannon: Physiologic Investigator, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

While a first-year student at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1896, Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945) employed newly discovered x-rays to study the activities of digestive organs in animals. Cannon induced cats to eat radiopaque meals, and followed food through alimentary organs with the aid of a fluroscopic screen. Basic studies of digestion, and of effects of emotions on it, led to new understandings of food utilization, of transmission of nerve impulses, and of actions of endocrine glands. Second Professor of Physiology at Harvard, Dr. Cannon earned world-wide respect as a researcher, as a teacher, and also as an ambassador of scientific good will.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.38

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Title

Harvey and the Circulation of Blood, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

William Harvey, slight, energetic, scientific English physician of the seventeenth century, with his famed pointed in hand, used demonstrations to prove his revolutionary theory of the circulation of blood, during his anatomical lectures before the College of Physicians of London. His book, "De Motu Cordis," published in 1628, upset traditional followers of Galen, rought entirely new concepts of circulations and of anatomy to medicine. Harvey, a graduate in medicine from Padua and Cambridge, physician to Kings James I and Charles I, was unperturbed by criticism, dedicated to research and to hard work. He died in 1657, after having seen his theory generally accepted by physicians.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.14

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Bernard: Explorer of Pathologic Frontiers, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

The only place where Claude Bernard (1813-1878) felt at home, outside experimental laboratories, was a the provincial farm near Saint-Julien (Rhône), France, where he was born. Bernard's great skill at dissection and at observation gave medical science benefit of outstanding physiologic discoveries concerning pancreatic secretions, animal sugar, poisons, and vasomotor nerves. He held professorships in physiology at leading Paris schools; he was awarded national and international scientific honors; but his great book, "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine," was written at his old farm home whie he recuperated from recurrent attacks of illness.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.31

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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Hippocrates: Medicine Becomes a Science, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

The art of medicine in the ancient world developed to its highest point in Greece, durng the millennium between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. This creative period is symbolized by Hippocrates, the "Father of Medicine," whose name has come to represent the beauty, value, and dignity of medicine for all times. Hippocrates' kindness and concern are embodied in his aphorism, "Where there is love for mankind, there is love for the art of healing." These qualities are reflected in the face of this great practioner, scientist, and teacher, as he palpates a young patient and attempts to sooth a worried mother sometime late in the fifth century B.C. His name is still revered in medical circles.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.7

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Title

Laennec and the Stethoscope, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Theophile Laennec (1781-1826), young French physician, while at Necker Hospital, Paris, in 1816, devised foot-long, hollow, wooden cylinders for listening to sounds in patients' chests. These he called "stethoscopes." Comparing opinions formed during stethoscopic examinations with later findings in autopsy, Laennec learned to accurately diagnose pathologic heart and lung conditions, and to better understand many chest diseases. his instrument and his published reports on its use were among the greater contributions to nineteenth-century medicine, helping physicians to understand pulmonary diseases - especially tuberculosis, the malady that ended Laennec's own short life.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.24

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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Title

Ramón y Cajal: Charting the Nervous System, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Boyhood teachers were positive that no good would come from backward, headstrong Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), but the country surgeon's son was destined to become Spain's leading medical scientist and a world-renowned neuroanatomist. His contributions to neurology and to psychiatry began in a crowded laboratory in Barcelona. For 40 years, Ramón y Cajal combined insatiable scientific curiosity, inventiveness that resulted in new stains for sections under his microscope, intensive observation, and inborn artistic ability, to reveal a wealth of new anatomical and functional facts about the nervous system, and about disorders affecting it. He received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.40

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Title

Leeuwenhoek and the "Little Animals", from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Antony van Leewenhoek, draper of seventeenth-century Delft, Holland, in his spare time retired to his "closet" to observe the wonders of the microscopic world through tiny lenses he laboriously ground and mounted. He was the first to report having seen "animalcules" - protozoa and bacteria - and to confirm by direct observation circulation of the blood. Though 200 years elapsed before practical application of his discoveries contributed to medicine, his work laid foundations for modern medicine's tremendous century-long onslaught against diseases caused by bacteria and other microbiologic entities - a world-wide campaign which has resulted in saving of millions of lives.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.15

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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James Lind: Conqueror of Scurvy, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Surgeon of Britian's Royal Navy aboard H.M.S. Salisbury, in the English Channel in 1747, James Lind conducted a series of clinical experiments that definitely proved citrus fruits or their juices could cure scurvy, dread dietary-deficiency disease that killed a million seamen between 1600 and 1800. Dr. Lind's work, at sea, in Edinburgh, and at Haslar Naval Hospital, plus his three books, on scurvy on care of sailors' health, and on tropical diseases, had much to do with reforming naval health practices, saving lives both on sea and land, and shaping destinies of nations, as world commerce increased.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.17

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Title

Lister Introduces Antisepsis, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

When Surgeon Joseph Lister (1827-1912) of Glasgow Royal Infirmary removed dressings from James Greenlees' compound fracture, the would had healed without infection - something unheard of before. For six weeks, beginning August 12, 1865, Lister had treated the boy's wound with carbolic acid. Now, Lister had proof of success of this principle of antisepsis - which was to revolutionize methods of treatment and to open new vistas in practice of surgery, of medicine, and of environmental sanitation. Hospials were turned from "houses of torture and death" to "houses of healing and cure." In 1897, Lister became the first British surgeon to be elevated to peerage.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.33

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 1.19010

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Title

Rhazes and Arabic Medicine, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

The West is deeply indebted to medieval Arabs for preservation of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge during the Middle Ages. and for improving on it. Our numeral system and many words, such as alcohol, came from the East, as did many medical advances. Leaders in the Arabic medicine were the Persians, Rhazes, and Avicenna. Rhazes (865-925 A.D.), noted for keen observation and inventiveness, was first to describe measles and smallpox; to observe pupillary reaction to light; to use mercurial purgatives; and to publish a text on children's diseases. His teachings were highly regarded for many centuries.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.9

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 1.19010

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Title

Semmelweis-Defender of Motherhood, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Hungarian physician Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), while Assistant at the First Obstetric Clinic of Vienna's great Allgemeine Krankenhaus in 1847, discovered means of preventing puerperal fever: he insisted that physicians and medical students wash their hands in chlorinated solution before entering obstetric wards and again before examining each patient. His rule was much resented and opposed - but hundreds of mothers' lives were saved. Though his doctrine was proved repeatedly, in hospitals in Vienna and in Budapest, most of his contemporaries opposed it; and, both depressed from worry and broken-hearted from disappointment, Semmelweis died at age 47, of blood poisoning, the infection he had fought so valiantly to prevent in mothers under his care.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.26

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 1.19010

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Title

Goldberger: Dietary Deficiency and Disease, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

When Dr. Joseph Goldberger, Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, and his assistant, Dr. C. H. Waring, begam studies of pellagra at the Baptist Orphanage near Jackson, Mississippi, in 1914, they faced puzzling questions: why were adults, older children, and the very young, free of the disease? Why, every year, did it strike children aged three to twelve? Dr. Goldberger ruled out infection or toxic foods as causes. With cooperation of Director J.R. Carter and House Mother "Miss Ida," the doctors added fresh meat, eggs, and milk to diets. Pellagra disappeared. By bold experiments, Dr. Goldberger proved dietary deficiency the cause of pellagra; pointed other researchers toward discovery of essential nutrients, now called vitamins, required to maintain health.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.42

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 1.19010

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Title

The Code of Hammurabi, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

The clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia document the practice of medicine as early as 3000 B.C. Of significance to medicine, too, is one of the oldest regulatory laws, the Code of Hammurabi, promulgated by that Babylonian ruler about 2000 B.C. In a Babylonian throne room, a physician is defending with dignity his professional practices against the complaints of a dissatisfied patient who seeks invocation of the drastic penalties of the Code. The King, the scribe, court attachés, guards, priests, friends of the plaintiff and of defendant, comprise the cast of the critical drama of law and of medicine 4000 years ago.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.2

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Title

Lavoisier: Oxygen, Combustion, and Respiration, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Greatest contribution of science to Medicine during the eighteenth century came from experiments relating to the processes of respiration, conducted between 1789 and 1792 by the Parisian chemist, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, in his laboratory at the Royal Arsenal. Mme. Lavoisier was his closest collaborator. Together with a young assistant, Sequin, Lavoisier recorded oxygen intake and carbon dioxide exhalation by a man while resting, while working, and while eating, and compared the results with statistics on combustion of carbon. Lavoisier made many scientific, social, economic, financial, and political contributions before French revolutionary radials executed him in 1794.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.19

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 1.19010

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Title

The Hopkins' Revolution in Medical Education, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Success of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, opened in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1893, stemmed from policies developed at meetings of the Faculty of Medicine and its advisors during formative years. The School, with cooperation of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, was to become world renowned for emphasis on research, for high admission standards, and for innovations in medical training. These advanced teaching methods influenced a revolutuon in medical education, led to higher requirements for medical licensure, brought about closure of many substandard schools of medicine, and helped raise the status of medicine in the United States to a position of world leadership.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.35

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 1.19010

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Title

Covered jar with design of flower maiden, sage, and child amidst flowering plants

Artist

Artist Unknown, Imari ware, Japan

Physical Description

A medium size, well potted porcelain jar with wooden rid, round shoulder and neck. Floral designs are painted with blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamels. There are Chinese scholar and attendant boy with a fan on one side and Japanese lady in kimono on the opposite side, painted with enamels. Band of flowers on the neck, another broader band of chrysanthemums on the shoulder. There is also a band of leaf patterns on the bottom. A large crack from neck to the middle of the body; porcelain glaze has small cracks all over the body. The foot is unglazed; the eye is fully glazed. No glaze on the rim. The teak wood lid, a later addition, has a finial made of an ivory netsuke of laughing Hotei.

Century

Mid-17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1650

Accession Number

1972/2.72A&B

Medium and Support

porcelain, blue underglaze, and enamel overglaze painting

relevance

rank 1.18979

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Title

Ancestral Shrine Figure (Male)

Artist

African, Nigeria, Ibo

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1940

Accession Number

1985/1.87

Medium and Support

carved wood

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rank 1.18979

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Title

Jain Tirthankara and a monk with animal forest scene, no. 12 from a Digambara series

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School

Physical Description

Two distinct registers divide a page in half. At the top, a yellow-orange colored nude jina sits in lotus position upon a three tiered throne [a patterned blue level at the bottom on feet, with an orange section with gold and red decoration and a green level at the top with gold vertical stripes]. He sits against a red background adorned with a pattern of three white dots. The background takes the shape of an elegant cusped arch with a green and white pattern along its outside with a gold pattern at its sides. To the right of the seated figure a nude Digambara monk sits with his legs folded and one knee up on a less elaborate throne with a lota or pot at the corner and a crossed bookstand to the side holding a book with some devanagari writing on it. He raises his right arm and holds his left to his ear.

Placed under a band of curving yellow stripes, the bottom register represents animals in a landscape. At the bottom are clumps of grass with four stylized mountain forms in blue at the right. Above the mountains stands a tiger facing a family of antelope striding towards him. The family consists of the blue male with his long spiraling horns and a yellow doe below him with a flesh-colored in front of her. Another small yellow fawn takes up the rear. Clumps of light blue and green grasses fill in the background.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1975/2.178

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

relevance

rank 1.18975

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Title

Mukha-Linga

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, South India

Physical Description

This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.

Century

18th-19th century

Object Creation Date

18th century - 19th century

Accession Number

1981/2.52B

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 1.18951

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Title

Shiva, in his form as ekamukhalinga

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Physical Description

Possibly used to cover a linga, a phallic representation of the god Shiva or representing a linga decorated with a face of Shiva, we find a stylized face on a tall, thick cylindrical neck. He is depicted with large, wide open eyes consisting of a double line above and below with a heavy eyebrows above them. A third eye is between them in a vertical direction. He has thick lips and wears a luxurious moustache. A decorated band fits tightly under his chin and may represent a decorated beard of necklaces. At the bottom of the band is a stylized linga on a base, looking like a cross on a line. His ears sport snake earrings and his hair is worn combed back from the forehead in wide matted bands.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1977/2.46

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 1.18916

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Title

Kuroneko to shojo (Black Cat and Girl)

Artist

Nakayama Tadashi

Physical Description

A girl in patterned dress is holding a black cat in her arms, looking to the left.

Artist Life Dates

born 1927

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1973

Accession Number

2011/2.26

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

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rank 1.18916

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Title

Unbeholding #3

Artist

Kay Denton

Physical Description

A girl sitting on a bicycle amongst leaves and trees.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1939

Object Creation Date

1996

Accession Number

2013/2.116

Medium and Support

gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 1.18916

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

descriptors

materials

materials by origin

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by family relationship

philosophical concepts

plant material

Title

Watercarrier

Artist

Artist Unknown, India

Physical Description

A standing figure of a watercarrier holding a bag on his left hand side. His right arm appears to be no longer part of the sculpture. He appears to be weighed down to the one side and his body is tilted. He is wearing a skirt and a turban.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

2012/2.164

Medium and Support

terracotta

relevance

rank 1.18916

Secondary Keywords

containers

containers by form

descriptors

inorganic material

materials

materials by composition

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

Title

The Awakening #5

Artist

Kay Denton

Physical Description

A girl in a white dress amongst trees and vines, appears to be twirling.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1939

Object Creation Date

1998; printed 2000

Accession Number

2013/2.119

Medium and Support

toned gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 1.18870

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by family relationship

philosophical concepts

Title

Circus Boy, Michigan Circus

Artist

D. James Galbraith

Physical Description

A child playing on top of a deflated circus tent.

Artist Life Dates

(1930 - 2002)

Object Creation Date

1980

Accession Number

2014/2.241

Medium and Support

vintage gelatin silver print on paper, laid down on board

relevance

rank 1.18870

Secondary Keywords

entertainment events

events

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

performances

Title

To Survive

Artist

Bitte Bjeregaard

Physical Description

A little boy in an oversized coat twirling around, an older man trying to get out of a chair in the background.

Object Creation Date

2000

Accession Number

2013/2.98

Medium and Support

digital pigment print on Epson Photo paper

relevance

rank 1.18870

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

materials

materials by function

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

Title

M. Labori, from "Dreyfus Affair"

Artist

Ben Shahn

Physical Description

Shown in court attaire, a man stands with arms bent at his waist, and left hand holding both a rolled up document and a small pair of spectacles. It reads above the man's head "M. Labori", who was Captain Dreyfus' defense attorney.

Object Creation Date

1968

Accession Number

2011/1.112.3

Medium and Support

pochoir print on paper

relevance

rank 1.18839

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

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social science concepts

sociological concepts

visual works

visual works by subject type

Title

El Abuelo y el Nino, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, from "Detroit Focus 2000"

Artist

Lisa Luevanos

Artist Life Dates

born 1965

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

2000

Accession Number

2003/2.69.23

Medium and Support

color photograph on paper

relevance

rank 1.18721

Secondary Keywords

accessories worn on the head

ancestors

costume

costume accessories

costume accessories worn

geographic and political locations

hats

headgear

michigan (state)

north and central america (continent)

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by family relationship

people by gender

united states (nation)

wayne (county)

Title

Two Scenes of Armies Fighting

Artist

Hans Burgkmair

Physical Description

This woodcut features a multitude of armored figures, some of which are on horseback, engaged in a battle with swords and lances in a hilly countryside. Two cannons are arranged on the lower right in the foreground and one cannon is being manipulated by a figure in the lower left corner of the composition. Various flags are included in the image including one with a Burgundian cross. In the distance of the scene there is a walled town with mountains positioned behind it.

Artist Life Dates

1473-1531

Object Creation Date

early 16th century

Accession Number

2012/2.179

Medium and Support

woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 1.18607

Secondary Keywords

ammunition

ammunition for artillery

armed conflicts

events

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information forms

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people

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people and culture

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people in military occupations

weapons and ammunition

Title

Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew

Artist

Workshop of Michael Wolgemut

Physical Description

A haloed man is attached to a plank in the foreground of the composition. A male figure positioned behind him holds a knife to his knee while a male figure in front of him holds a knife to his wrist. A figure dressed like a church father stands watching over the scene on the right.

Artist Life Dates

1434-1519

Object Creation Date

15th century - early 16th century

Accession Number

2012/2.206

Medium and Support

woodcut on medium ivory laid paper

relevance

rank 1.18304

Secondary Keywords

edged weapons

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

weapons

weapons and ammunition

Title

Martyrdom of St. Matthew

Artist

Workshop of Michael Wolgemut

Physical Description

A haloed man kneels in three-quarter profile in the left center of the foreground of the composition. A male figure stands behind the haloed figure in a wide stance with an ax raised above the kneeling figure's head. In the background is another male figure wearing a pointed hat and a jester or demonic figure shown falling of a column in the distance in the upper left.

Artist Life Dates

1434-1519

Object Creation Date

circa 1493

Accession Number

2012/2.205

Medium and Support

woodcut on medium ivory laid paper

relevance

rank 1.18304

Secondary Keywords

edged weapons

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

weapons

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Title

Dvarapala (temple guardian; pair with 1980/2.290)

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop

Physical Description

The two-armed figure dances with his left leg raised and wrapped around a club. His left arm is extended down his body and holds onto the club and his right hand is raised almost to his ear. He wears much of jewelry including bracelets, anklets, necklaces with should loops and an elaborate belt almost forming an apron. His stomach protrudes over the belt. He also has large earrings in the form of roaring lions and a jewel encrusted crown. His eyes bulge out and his mouth is open showing his teeth. The whole is badly weathered and not nearly as crisp as his partner, 1980/2.290.

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

15th century

Accession Number

1980/2.291

Medium and Support

wood

relevance

rank 1.18276

Secondary Keywords

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by activity

Title

Horse and rider

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

7th century

Object Creation Date

early 7th century

Accession Number

1987/1.149

Medium and Support

earthenware with pale straw glaze

relevance

rank 1.18276

Secondary Keywords

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by activity

Title

Forced March to the Front between Lonie and Mitulen, Poland

Artist

André Kertész

Physical Description

A long row of male soldiers march down a Hungarian landscape. They are dressed in uniform and carrying artilery. They are boardered by a field of vegetation and an arid mountain range.

Artist Life Dates

1894-1985

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

July 19, 1915; printed 1981

Accession Number

1985/1.125.9

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 1.18175

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

descriptors

design elements

firearms

objects we use

ornament areas

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in military occupations

projectile weapons

projectile weapons with explosive propellant

religions

religions and religious concepts

weapons

weapons and ammunition

Title

Portrait of Mlle. Moreno

Artist

Edmond-François Aman-Jean

Artist Life Dates

1860-1935

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1897

Accession Number

1981/2.81

Medium and Support

color lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 1.18130

Secondary Keywords

biological components

components

components and systems

components by specific context

figures

heads

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people and occupations

people by gender

the human body

upper body

visual works

visual works by subject type

Title

A Dream Half Remembered

Artist

Ken Rosenthal

Physical Description

A child's head with a devil's hat on, blurry image.

Object Creation Date

2004

Accession Number

2013/2.169

Medium and Support

toned gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

costume

costume by function

events

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by family relationship

personal life events

Title

Panch Mukha Shiva Riding a Horse (small folk bronze)

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1978/2.88

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

associated concepts

mammals

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

religions

religions and religious concepts

Title

Carved ivory snuff bottle in the shape of a male child

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

late 19th century–early 20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1880-1925

Accession Number

1980/2.69

Medium and Support

ivory

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

containers

containers by function or context

containers for personal use

containers for smoking and tobacco use

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

Title

Standing Hanuman, Upright figure of monkey God with hands in anjali position

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Century

16th-18th century

Object Creation Date

16th century - 17th century

Accession Number

1976/2.51

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

associated concepts

mammals

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

religions

religions and religious concepts

Title

Snuff bottle in the form of a bearded male figure

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1850-1920

Accession Number

1980/2.124

Medium and Support

porcelain with overglaze enamels; coral stopper

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

containers

containers by function or context

containers for personal use

containers for smoking and tobacco use

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

Title

Untitled

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

A child holding a cardboard sign next to a wall, woman in yellow dress and black heels is passing by quickly.

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2014/2.134

Medium and Support

color photograph on Kodak Pro paper

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by age group

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

youth

Title

Untitled

Artist

Bradley Jones

Physical Description

Black and white portrait of a nude woman from the chest up with a blunt haircut that is chin length and has straight cut bangs.

Object Creation Date

1987

Accession Number

2013/2.309

Medium and Support

oil and oil pastel on paper

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

figures (representations)

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

visual works

visual works by subject type

Title

Bust

Artist

Thomas Ball

Physical Description

Plaster cast bust of a caucasian male

Artist Life Dates

1819-1911

Object Creation Date

circa 1853

Accession Number

2008/2.313

Medium and Support

plaster

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

figures (representations)

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

visual works

visual works by subject type

Title

Ganesha

Artist

India, Central India

Century

10th-12th century

Object Creation Date

10th century - 12th century

Accession Number

1981/1.317

Medium and Support

sandstone

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

associated concepts

mammals

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

religions

religions and religious concepts

Title

Snuff bottle with painted design of a European male wooing a Chinese woman

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1900-1940

Accession Number

1980/2.121

Medium and Support

porcelain with blue underglaze painting; glass stopper

relevance

rank 1.18114

Secondary Keywords

containers

containers by function or context

containers for personal use

containers for smoking and tobacco use

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender