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Location Plan; Terry Winters

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Title: Location Plan
Artist: Terry Winters
Physical Description: A collection squares arranged in six rows of five columns. The squares are in black and white and are of abstract designs.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1949
Object Creation Date: 2000
Accession Number: 2011/1.83
Medium and Support: screenprint on Clearprint fade-out cotton, vellum graph paper
relevance: rank 2.78503
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; geometric concepts; geometric figures; mathematical concepts; objects we use; people and culture; photographic prints; photographic prints by color; photographs; photographs by form; plane figures; polygons; positives; prints; prints by process or technique; quadrilaterals; rectangles; scientific concepts; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Shift, Orange and Green; Julian Stanczak

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Title: Shift, Orange and Green
Artist: Julian Stanczak
Physical Description: This is a square painting with skinny vertical lines of green on a background of red. There are two square forms in the center, each with a diagonal line from the upper left to lower right corners. One square is created by a pinkish, purple line and the other is created by a reddish orange line.
Artist Life Dates: born 1928
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1991
Accession Number: 2009/2.12
Medium and Support: acrylic on canvas and wood
relevance: rank 2.77851
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; components; components and systems; components by specific context; descriptors; design elements; geometric concepts; geometric figures; geometric patterns; information form components; layout features; mathematical concepts; patterns (design elements); patterns by specific type; people and culture; plane figures; polygons; quadrilaterals; rectangles; scientific concepts

Rectangular bottle with drip glaze design; Hamada Shôji

Title: Rectangular bottle with drip glaze design
Artist: Hamada Shôji
Physical Description: This rectangular clay bottle has a speckled white glaze that seems to highlight the texture of the stoneware underneath. Three dripped, irregular lines of black glaze create a design on the top, spout, and widest two faces of the bottle.
Artist Life Dates: (1894 - 1978)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1967
Accession Number: 1967/2.10
Medium and Support: stoneware with iron drip glaze over white glaze
relevance: rank 2.77851
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; containers; containers by form; descriptors; geometric concepts; geometric figures; image-making processes and techniques; mathematical concepts; objects we use; painting and painting techniques; painting techniques; painting techniques by application method; people and culture; plane figures; polygons; processes and techniques; processes and techniques by specific type; quadrilaterals; scientific concepts; vessels

Half-figure Fetish; African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa

Title: Half-figure Fetish
Artist: African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1900-1920
Accession Number: 1982/1.263
Medium and Support: wood
relevance: rank 2.75957
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; figures; figures (representations); object genres; object genres by function; objects we use; people and culture; people and occupations; physical activities; physical activities by general context; sculpture; sculpture by function; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

The Labors of Hercules: Centaurs and Hippodamia (one of the set of 13 prints); Heinrich Aldegrever

Title: The Labors of Hercules: Centaurs and Hippodamia (one of the set of 13 prints)
Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever
Artist Life Dates: 1502- circa 1561
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 1550
Accession Number: 1956/1.70
Medium and Support: engraving on paper
relevance: rank 2.75847
Secondary Keywords: allegory and literature; animals and creatures; clubs; descriptors; fights; figures; figures (representations); iconography; inorganic material; legendary creatures; materials; materials by composition; objects; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; physical activities; physical activities by general context; religion; subject matter; visual works; visual works by subject type

Female Fertility Doll; Artist Unknown, African, South Africa, Shambala

Title: Female Fertility Doll
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, South Africa, Shambala
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1983
Accession Number: 1983/2.194
Medium and Support: wood
relevance: rank 2.74752
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; figures; figures (representations); figurines; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; toys; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Seated Nude; Aristide Maillol

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Title: Seated Nude
Artist: Aristide Maillol
Physical Description: This is a 21cm tall bronze sculpture of a nude female figure seated on a stump-like form with her legs extending out in front of her and crossed at the ankles. She leans the weight of her body on her left arm, as her left hand grasps the edge of the stump. Her right arm is bent and raised, with the back of her hand resting against the left side of her head. She is gazing downward and her arm seems to be shielding her face. Her hair is pulled back and gathered in a knot. The patina is dark brown and the metal surface has a uneven appearance.
Artist Life Dates: 1861 - 1944
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1881-1944
Accession Number: 1985/1.127
Medium and Support: patina on bronze
relevance: rank 2.72229
Secondary Keywords: copper alloy; copper and copper alloy; descriptors; figures; figures (representations); inorganic material; materials; materials by composition; metal; metal and metal products; metal by composition or origin; modern and contemporary art; nonferrous metal; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; visual works; visual works by subject type

Descent into Limbo; Zoan Andrea

Title: Descent into Limbo
Artist: Zoan Andrea
Artist Life Dates: active c.1475-c.1519
Century: 15th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1475-1480
Accession Number: 1979/1.159
Medium and Support: engraving on laid paper
relevance: rank 2.71639
Secondary Keywords: arches and arch components; architectural elements; architecture; components; components and systems; components by specific context; descriptors; figures; figures (representations); inorganic material; materials; materials by composition; objects; objects we use; people and occupations; religion; spanning and projecting structural elements; structural elements; structural elements and structural element components; subject matter; visual works; visual works by subject type

The Labors of Hercules: The Cerynean Hind (one of the set of 13 prints); Heinrich Aldegrever

Title: The Labors of Hercules: The Cerynean Hind (one of the set of 13 prints)
Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever
Artist Life Dates: 1502- circa 1561
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 1550
Accession Number: 1956/1.73
Medium and Support: engraving on paper
relevance: rank 2.71141
Secondary Keywords: allegory and literature; animals; animals and creatures; buildings and the land; clothing; costume; costume by form; descriptors; figures; figures (representations); geography; iconography; inorganic material; landform components; landforms and landform components; landscapes (environments); mammals; materials; materials by composition; natural landscapes; objects; objects we use; outerwear; people and occupations; settlements and landscapes; the natural world; visual works; visual works by subject type; waterscapes

Phulkari Shawl with Stylized Floral Patterns arranged in 54 squares; India, Eastern Punjab

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Title: Phulkari Shawl with Stylized Floral Patterns arranged in 54 squares
Artist: India, Eastern Punjab
Physical Description: This piece of brick red cloth is covered with geometric patterns in tones of red, greenish yellow, white and orange. Along the top and bottom edges (if the piece were vertical) are border grids made up of 6 squares with triangular patterns of thread inside them. The main body of the phulkari is a 6 by 9 square grid, each box housing a stylized floral pattern made from embroidery.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1st half of 20th century
Accession Number: 2005/2.10
Medium and Support: silk embroidery on homespun cotton cloth
relevance: rank 2.69314
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; descriptors; design elements; fiber and fiber products; fiber products; geometric concepts; geometric figures; materials; materials by form; materials by physical form; mathematical concepts; people and culture; plane figures; polygons; scientific concepts; textile materials; textile materials by form

Composition; Giuseppe Capogrossi

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Title: Composition
Artist: Giuseppe Capogrossi
Physical Description: This composition features thick black curved and straight lines that intersect to create fork-like abstracted forms. There is a highly saturated red square that punctuates the center of the composition.
Artist Life Dates: 1900-1972
Accession Number: 2012/2.218
Medium and Support: color etching on medium ivory wove paper
relevance: rank 2.68288
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; european; european styles and periods; geometric concepts; geometric figures; mathematical concepts; modern european fine arts styles and movements; modern european styles and movements; people and culture; plane figures; polygons; quadrilaterals; rectangles; scientific concepts; styles and periods; styles and periods by region

The Ho-Ho Brothers of Harmony; Artist Unknown, China

Title: The Ho-Ho Brothers of Harmony
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1989/2.145
Medium and Support: woodblock print on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Standing female attendant (tomb figurine); Artist Unknown, China

Title: Standing female attendant (tomb figurine)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Object Creation Date: 1368-1644
Accession Number: 1993/1.107
Medium and Support: earthenware with sancai glaze and painted facial features
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Ancestor Figure; Melanesian, New Guinea, Asmat

Title: Ancestor Figure
Artist: Melanesian, New Guinea, Asmat
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1971/2.52
Medium and Support: wood
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Hana-ogi of Ogiya Going into the Country; Hosoda Eishô

Title: Hana-ogi of Ogiya Going into the Country
Artist: Hosoda Eishô
Artist Life Dates: (active 1780 - 1800)
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century
Accession Number: 1948/1.193
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Young Arab Girl; Gaston Veuvenot Leroux

Title: Young Arab Girl
Artist: Gaston Veuvenot Leroux
Artist Life Dates: 1854-1942
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 1981/2.66
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Folk Durga; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Folk Durga
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.269
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Le Maréchal de Castelnau; Robert Nanteuil

Title: Le Maréchal de Castelnau
Artist: Robert Nanteuil
Artist Life Dates: 1623-1678
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1658
Accession Number: 1954/1.54
Medium and Support: engraving on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Maid Carrying a Box of Chinese Dishes; Katsukawa Shunchô

Title: Maid Carrying a Box of Chinese Dishes
Artist: Katsukawa Shunchô
Artist Life Dates: active 1780 - 1795
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: mid 1780
Accession Number: 1960/1.151
Medium and Support: Pillar-format full-color woodblock print (hashira e nishiki e)
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Portrait of a Man; Anonymous British or American?

Title: Portrait of a Man
Artist: Anonymous British or American?
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1895.33
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Arlequin Général; Jean Lurçat

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Title: Arlequin Général
Artist: Jean Lurçat
Artist Life Dates: (Lorraine, France, 1892 - 1966)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1892-1966
Accession Number: 2002/2.79
Medium and Support: color etching on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Two figures (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India

Title: Two figures (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1978/2.106
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Heavenly Offical Confers Wealth and Promotion(rank) ; (Pair with 1989/2.153); Artist Unknown, China

Title: Heavenly Offical Confers Wealth and Promotion(rank); (Pair with 1989/2.153)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1989/2.154
Medium and Support: woodblock print on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Goddess or female devotee holding a lotus in her right hand (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Goddess or female devotee holding a lotus in her right hand (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.85
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Bowl, Imari style, with design of lady in a garden; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Bowl, Imari style, with design of lady in a garden
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: A scalloped plate with design of a lady in the center, wearing a grey dress in a garden.
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: 19th century - 1982
Accession Number: 1982/1.218
Medium and Support: overglaze enamel painting on porcelain
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Couple Embracing; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Couple Embracing
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Accession Number: 1990/1.174
Medium and Support: terracotta
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

A Girl Seated; Augustus John

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Title: A Girl Seated
Artist: Augustus John
Artist Life Dates: 1878-1961
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1894-1899
Accession Number: 1954/1.230
Medium and Support: red and black chalk on grey pasteboard
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Procession of Girls with Fuji Foreheads (Fuji bitai hana no gyôretsu); Utagawa Toyokuni I

Title: Procession of Girls with Fuji Foreheads (Fuji bitai hana no gyôretsu)
Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I
Artist Life Dates: 1769 - 1825
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century - early 19th century
Accession Number: 1938.4
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper, one of series of five
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Reclining Female Nude; Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Title: Reclining Female Nude
Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Artist Life Dates: 1824-1898
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1960/2.84
Medium and Support: black chalk on cream paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

The Letter (Maud, seated); James McNeill Whistler

Title: The Letter (Maud, seated)
Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Physical Description: A woman is seen seated in a chair, facing to the left but looking towards the viewer. She is in a long dress with long sleeves. She has her hands in her lap and holds a sheet of paper.
Artist Life Dates: 1834-1903
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1873
Accession Number: 1993/2.33
Medium and Support: drypoint on old laid paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Cleopatra; Artist Unknown

Title: Cleopatra
Artist: Artist Unknown
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1949/1.144K
Medium and Support: etching on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Genji and the Young Damsels (Right-hand sheet of a triptych), from the series of "Popular Stories of Prince Genji" (Furyu Yatsushi Genji): Wakana no jô (chapter 34); Hosoda Eishi

Title: Genji and the Young Damsels (Right-hand sheet of a triptych), from the series of "Popular Stories of Prince Genji" (Furyu Yatsushi Genji): Wakana no jô (chapter 34)
Artist: Hosoda Eishi
Artist Life Dates: 1756 - 1829
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century
Accession Number: 1948/1.190
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper, one of triptych
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Woman; Ottochi

Title: Woman
Artist: Ottochi
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1959/1.79
Medium and Support: stone
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Miroku (Chûgûji, Nara); Saitô Kiyoshi

Title: Miroku (Chûgûji, Nara)
Artist: Saitô Kiyoshi
Artist Life Dates: (active 1907 - 1997)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1957
Accession Number: 1959/2.30
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Annie, One of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature,' or the 'French Set'; James McNeill Whistler

Title: Annie, One of the 'Twelve Etchings from Nature,' or the 'French Set'
Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Physical Description: A girl stands facing to the left, her face turned slightly towards the viewer. She is show standing in a dark dress with a high collar and long hair parted in the middle. Her dress comes to just below the knee and although she holds the hem of her skirt in her left hand, there is only slight indication of the girl's left leg. The result is a vignetted view; the artist's signature and the inscription bearing the information about the printer (Auguste Delatre) form the bottom of an implied oval frame.
Artist Life Dates: 1834-1903
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1858
Accession Number: 1954/1.318
Medium and Support: etching, printed in black ink on Japan paper, laid down on white wove plate paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Seated Figure of Devotee,; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Seated Figure of Devotee,
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.263
Medium and Support: copper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Voyage in China: Chinese Talking Politics; Honoré Victorin Daumier

Title: Voyage in China: Chinese Talking Politics
Artist: Honoré Victorin Daumier
Artist Life Dates: 1808-1879
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1844
Accession Number: 1988/1.151
Medium and Support: lithograph on newsprint
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Portrait of Clarence H. White, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 9, January, 1905"; Edward Jean Steichen

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Title: Portrait of Clarence H. White, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 9, January, 1905"
Artist: Edward Jean Steichen
Artist Life Dates: Luxembourg, 1879-1973
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1905
Accession Number: 2000/2.142.6
Medium and Support: photogravure on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Fragments of Ritual Vessels & Adze?; Artist Unknown, China

Title: Fragments of Ritual Vessels & Adze?
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 17th c - 14th c BCE
Object Creation Date: 17th century BCE - 14th century BCE
Accession Number: 1940.415
Medium and Support: stone
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Male Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon

Title: Male Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1990
Accession Number: 1991/1.84
Medium and Support: carved wood
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Wounded Man; Constantin-Emile Meunier

Title: Wounded Man
Artist: Constantin-Emile Meunier
Artist Life Dates: 1831-1905
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1896
Accession Number: 1987/1.263
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Terracotta figurine of a Female Devotee; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Terracotta figurine of a Female Devotee
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1981/2.155
Medium and Support: terracotta
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Aspara (Heavenly Maiden); India, Central India

Title: Aspara (Heavenly Maiden)
Artist: India, Central India
Century: 10th-12th century
Object Creation Date: 10th century - 12th century
Accession Number: 1981/1.316
Medium and Support: beige sandstone
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Jules Jacquemart; Marcellin Desboutin

Title: Jules Jacquemart
Artist: Marcellin Desboutin
Artist Life Dates: 1823-1902
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1876
Accession Number: 1973/1.759
Medium and Support: drypoint on paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Girl in Fur; James McGarrell

Title: Girl in Fur
Artist: James McGarrell
Artist Life Dates: born 1930
Century: 20th century
Accession Number: 2000/2.255
Medium and Support: lithograph on wove paper
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations

Genji and the Young Damsels, Left-hand sheet of a triptych (Waka-na), rom the series of "Popular Stories of Prince Genji" (Furyu Yatsushi Genji): Wakana no jô (chapter 34); Hosoda Eishi

Title: Genji and the Young Damsels, Left-hand sheet of a triptych (Waka-na), rom the series of "Popular Stories of Prince Genji" (Furyu Yatsushi Genji): Wakana no jô (chapter 34)
Artist: Hosoda Eishi
Artist Life Dates: 1756 - 1829
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: late 18th century
Accession Number: 1948/1.192
Medium and Support: color woodblock print on paper, one of triptych
relevance: rank 2.67711
Secondary Keywords: figures; people and occupations