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Title

Die Säule [The Piillar]

Artist

Paul Klee

Physical Description

watercolor and ink on paper

Artist Life Dates

1879-1940

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1926

Accession Number

2000/2.160

Medium and Support

watercolor and ink on paper

relevance

rank 13.84998

Secondary Keywords

genres

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Title

Infant Nude

Artist

Egon Schiele

Artist Life Dates

1890-1918

Accession Number

2007/2.95

Medium and Support

watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 13.21834

Secondary Keywords

child

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Title

Antwerp Port

Artist

William Lewis

Physical Description

This watercolor depicts a busy harbor scene in tones of brown with a bit of blue in the sky area and greenish blue for the water. One building on the shore is shown in bright red.

Artist Life Dates

born 1918

Object Creation Date

1964

Accession Number

2010/2.35

Medium and Support

watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 13.08279

Secondary Keywords

antwerpen (province)

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Title

Elsewhere, Therefore Here

Artist

Pierre Alechinsky

Artist Life Dates

born 1927

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1961

Accession Number

1963/1.86

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 12.68268

Secondary Keywords

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Title

The New Landscape

Artist

William Lewis

Physical Description

This is an abstract watercolor done in shades of black, blue and brown. There are highlights of bright red and blue and a line drawing of a tower in the upper left corner.

Artist Life Dates

born 1918

Object Creation Date

1965

Accession Number

2010/2.36

Medium and Support

watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 12.66110

Secondary Keywords

objects we use

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Title

Self-Portrait

Artist

Jean Paul Slusser

Physical Description

A middle-aged man in a gray-green button up shirt and wearing glasses looks at the viewer. He is shown in bust.

Artist Life Dates

1886 -1981

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1930

Accession Number

1982/2.28

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 12.56066

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Portrait of Jane Davis Tucker (Mother of Stephen Davis Tucker)

Artist

Anonymous American

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1970/2.112

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 12.45604

Secondary Keywords

figures (representations)

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Title

Adoration of the Magi

Artist

Jan Erasmus Quellinus

Physical Description

This unfinished painted study depicts a crowd of figures gathered around three richly dressed men and a woman and child, who appear on a flight of stairs near the entrance to a large building decorated with classical columns and pilasters. An elderly bald man wearing a red cloak trimmed with ermine kneels with his head bowed at the top of the stairs before a kneeling woman who holds an infant in her right arm. Another man wearing a turban decorated with a large feather stands behind the kneeling man and holds a gold censer hanging from a chain in his left hand. A third richly dressed man stands at the bottom of the stairs with his back turned toward the viewer. A number of other figures crowd around this central group from the sides. A large ox sits in the right foreground with a donkey standing behind it.

Artist Life Dates

1634-1715

Century

17th - 18th century

Object Creation Date

1634-1715

Accession Number

1963/2.44

Medium and Support

oil on paper mounted on canvas

relevance

rank 12.03844

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Moon over Lausanne

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Physical Description

Three figures stand in the bottom left corner. The image is mostly tan and light blue except very dark in the center. The blue horizon line is in the top third of the image stretching from a cityscape on the left side to a sweeping hill on the right side. There is a small moon in the middle at the very top of the image.

Artist Life Dates

1775-1851

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1836

Accession Number

1991/2.72

Medium and Support

watercolor and graphite on paper

relevance

rank 11.43656

Secondary Keywords

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Title

A Cottage

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Physical Description

A two-story cottage with two chimneys is in the middle of the page. The view of it is obstructed by the large mound that takes up the right half of the image. There is a green tree on the left side of the cottage.

Artist Life Dates

1775-1851

Century

18th-19th century

Object Creation Date

1775-1851

Accession Number

1985/1.100

Medium and Support

watercolor and graphite on off-white laid paper

relevance

rank 11.43265

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

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Title

The Death of Leander

Artist

Giulio Carpioni

Physical Description

In dark turbulent waters under a stormy sky four nude sea nymphs support the body of a long-haired man between them on a white shroud. The face of a man with kelp in his hair appears between two of the nymphs. On the right a bearded man with a trident in his right hand rides in a chariot fashioned from a seashell and pulled by two fished-tailed horses or hippocampi. Just visible in the distance behind the back of the rightmost nymph, a lofty tower rises above the waves.

Artist Life Dates

1613-1678

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1655

Accession Number

1984/1.290

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 11.26922

Secondary Keywords

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Title

View of the Fortifications at Gennep on the Maas River

Artist

Salomon van Ruysdael

Physical Description

The low horizon used in this landscape painting creates a sense of expansive sky and flat terrain, which is divided equally between river and land. Figures and animals engage in variety of activities on the riverbank and in boats, including fishing and ferrying cargo and animals. Silhouetted against the vast sky stands a fortress on a spur of land with an orange flag flying from its tower. The opposite bank is visible in the distance as a dark broken line across the shining stretch of water.

Artist Life Dates

c.1602-1670

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1665

Accession Number

2000/2.2

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 11.19469

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Title

Untitled, New York Skies

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers in neutral colors. Dark clouds hang in the sky.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

circa 1980

Accession Number

2011/2.138

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 11.17161

Secondary Keywords

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Title

New York Sunset

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

New York City skyscrapers seen from a distance. Dark clouds in the sky could be bringing rain.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

circa 1980

Accession Number

2011/2.137

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 11.17161

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Christ Healing the Deaf-Mute

Artist

Philippe de Champaigne

Physical Description

This painting depicts a river passing through a wooded landscape as human figures, dwarfed by the towering trees, move along its banks. The majestic landscape dominates the painting, but a group of four men in the right foreground also competes for attention since the bright, saturated primary colors of their robes stand out sharply against the muted tonalities of their surroundings. One of the men, wearing a blue cloak, places his left finger in the mouth of a man kneeling before him and touches the side of his head with his right hand. A third man leans forward to touch the kneeling figure's shoulder while the fourth, in a magnificent red cloak, raises his hands in astonishment.

Artist Life Dates

1602-1674

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1650-1660

Accession Number

1960/2.93

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 11.16072

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Luxembourg

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Physical Description

The top third of the landscape image is the sky with two tower-structures silhouetted on the far right side. There is a structure in the middle of the image with a bridge connecting the cliffs. The bottom right corner of the image is darker and more blue than the rest.

Artist Life Dates

1775-1851

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1839

Accession Number

1991/2.73

Medium and Support

watercolor and gouache on blue paper

relevance

rank 11.01091

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Untitled (Tree)

Artist

Jean Paul Slusser

Physical Description

This is a watercolor painting in a vertical format painted in tones of blue and green. It shows a large tree, with a black trunk and branches and without any leaves, in front of two houses. The sky is painted in a bright blue.

Artist Life Dates

1886 -1981

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

20th century

Accession Number

2009/1.541

Medium and Support

watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 11.00423

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Untitled

Artist

Richard Wilt

Physical Description

This is a multi-colored abstract watercolor painted in tones of bright blue, red and yellow. There are areas with sharp lines of color and other areas where the colors have bled together.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1981

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

2009/1.546

Medium and Support

watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 10.99983

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Li River

Artist

Mignonette Yin Cheng

Physical Description

Watercolor painting with very strong vertical lines of aquamarine, ochres, greens and dark blues. The colored sections follow the vertical lines but also reference an almost "poured" look of color.

Artist Life Dates

(China, 1933 - 2009)

Object Creation Date

2004

Accession Number

2012/1.226

Medium and Support

watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 10.99983

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Domodossola

Artist

Samuel Prout

Physical Description

This small watercolor depicts a city square viewed through the arches of an arcade. A small group clusters next to one of the columns in the foreground, and a few other figures are scattered about the square along with a man leading a horse and cart.

Artist Life Dates

(1783 - 1852)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1824-1852

Accession Number

2009/1.511.3

Medium and Support

watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper

relevance

rank 10.94380

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Drawing RIII 7 (Interlacing Triangles)

Artist

Bridget Riley

Physical Description

pencil drawing and gouache on paper

Artist Life Dates

born 1931

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1972

Accession Number

1983/1.170

Medium and Support

gouache and pencil on paper

relevance

rank 10.94160

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Lord Charles Spencer (1740-1820), Second son of the Third Duke of Marlborough

Artist

Joshua Reynolds

Physical Description

A young man leans against a stone ledge and gazes to his right. He wears a slate blue jacket with a white collar and cuffs and has a matching mantle. He casually hooks a finger of his left hand in the hilt of a sword that hangs at his waist. A plain stone column immediately behind the sitter creates a near silhouette of the shadowed side of his face. A hazy sky fills the background.

Artist Life Dates

1723-1792

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1759

Accession Number

2001/2.128

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.87176

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Bay of Naples

Artist

Samuel Prout

Physical Description

Three figures stand in a wooded clearing in the foreground of this small watercolor. A view opens out in the middle ground over a bay with a city descending from the adjacent hills to the water. A volcano smolders in the distance on the opposite side of the bay, a thick plume of smoke rising from its peak.

Artist Life Dates

(1783 - 1852)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1824-1852

Accession Number

2009/1.511.2

Medium and Support

watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper

relevance

rank 10.82034

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Rimini with a View of the Tiberius Bridge

Artist

Samuel Prout

Physical Description

This small watercolor represents a view of a city on the banks of a river. A bridge in the middle ground connects the city, whose buildings run to the water's edge. A woman wearing a bright white shirt with a blue dress and a brilliant red scarf stands in the foreground. A boat covered by a red-and-white striped canopy, poled by a man in the bow, approaches the near shore.

Artist Life Dates

(1783 - 1852)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1824-1852

Accession Number

2009/1.511.1

Medium and Support

watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper

relevance

rank 10.80009

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Untitled, Farm Buildings in Pennsylvania

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of a farmhouse and its surrounding land. The farmer stands on the road in overalls with his hand raised, while a cow grazes in a field.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

circa 1950

Accession Number

2011/2.139

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.79346

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Maitina

Artist

Atta Kwami

Physical Description

An abstract oil painting in various colors. The colors are set into their own rows or columns and do not run together.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1956

Object Creation Date

2011

Accession Number

2011/1.88

Medium and Support

oil on linen

relevance

rank 10.76972

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Sur le Flat-Iron

Artist

Albert Gleizes

Physical Description

Ink and gouache drawing in black, gray and white on tan paper with tall vertical structure at center of composition rendered in a series of quick vertical and diagonal lines.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1953

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1916

Accession Number

2000/2.172

Medium and Support

graphite, ink, gouache, and white heightening on tannish-gray wove paper

relevance

rank 10.76853

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Mercurius in the Vessel

Artist

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Physical Description

Concentric lines of bright red alternate with lines of blue and green to create an optical illusion of receeding squares. The juxtaposition of these colors also creates an appearance of intersecting orange lines and hues of purple.

Artist Life Dates

born 1930

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1963

Accession Number

1988/1.137

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.68049

Secondary Keywords

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Title

The Annunciation

Artist

Mariano Salvador de Maella

Physical Description

In this painting, rendered entirely in gray monochrome, a technique known as grisaille, an angel descends on a bank of clouds toward a woman who kneels on the floor before a prie-dieu. She looks downward and turns away from the angel in a gesture of humility, and her head is illuminated by the light from a luminescent dove in the cloud above her. A bearded man looks down from the summit of the cloud, nearly engulfed in light, and a number of cherubim appear throughout the scene. The robust forms and grounded materiality of the woman's body and the furniture around her give way to light-filled clouds and diffused forms in the upper part of the canvas as the heavenly and worldly realms come together.

Artist Life Dates

1739-1819

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1780

Accession Number

1967/1.37

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.67859

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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Title

Shift, Warm

Artist

Julian Stanczak

Physical Description

This is a square painting with skinny vertical lines of purple on a background of orange. There are two square forms in the center, each wth a diagonal line from the lower left to upper right corners. One square is created by a pinkish, purple line and the the other is created by a reddish orange line.

Artist Life Dates

born 1928

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

2009/2.11

Medium and Support

acrylic on canvas and wood

relevance

rank 10.60176

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Landscape

Artist

Carl Weber

Physical Description

Canvas size: h 50 3/5cm x tw 76 1/5cm & bw 76 1/2cm.

Artist Life Dates

(1850 - 1921)

Accession Number

2008/2.370

Medium and Support

oil on linen

relevance

rank 10.47720

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Untitled, Moroccan Abstraction

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An abstract oil painting of a blank, windowless building.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1970-1975

Accession Number

2011/2.142

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.38888

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Au Marais

Artist

Auguste Louis Lepère

Physical Description

This graphite and watercolor piece on paper contains thirteen slender trees on its horizon. There are multiple buildings in the background, with a large structure in the left center. The foreground is hilly and grassy.

Artist Life Dates

1849-1918

Object Creation Date

1875-1918

Accession Number

2009/1.505

Medium and Support

graphite and watercolor on paper

relevance

rank 10.38367

Secondary Keywords

upward

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Title

Women on a Balcony

Artist

Jacob Epstein

Physical Description

Eight women appear on a balcony in this drawing with a vaguely indicated crowd looking up at them from below. Most of the women appear at least partly nude, and several wear headdresses and necklaces reminiscent of Egyptian costume.

Artist Life Dates

(1880 - 1959)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1900-1959

Accession Number

2009/1.498

Medium and Support

watercolor and graphite on paper

relevance

rank 10.36945

Secondary Keywords

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Title

L'Alliance de la Poésie et de la Musique (The Alliance of Poetry and Music)

Artist

Charles Joseph Natoire

Physical Description

Two women clad in flowing robes sit beneath a curved colonnade at the center of this delicately painted scene. The woman on the left, wearing a blue mantle, holds a lyre in her right hand and leans toward her companion, who holds open a musical score on her lap to which she points with her right hand. Books are piled on the steps next to the woman on the left and a putto sits next to her with a scroll unrolled across his lap. A second putto stands next to the other seated woman and plays a viol. A winged putto hovers over the heads of the two women, holding a small trumpet in his left hand and a laurel crown in his right, which he is about to place on the head of the woman with the lyre. Two bust-length portraits of men in oval frames wreathed with laurel hang from the columns in the background.

Artist Life Dates

1700-1777

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1746

Accession Number

1994/1.81

Medium and Support

oil on panel

relevance

rank 10.33141

Secondary Keywords

bowed

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Title

D&H Rogue

Artist

Richard Francisco

Physical Description

Ombre orange and black abstract forms painted on paper cut out and attached to wood, laid on top of another larger cutout of pink abstract form with “shadows” from the cutout above it painted in red; the paper collage is centered on a large sheet of white paper. Signed “D[orothy] & H[erb] Rogue” in bottom left corner, “R. J. Francisco ‘82” in bottom right corner.

Artist Life Dates

(1942 - )

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1982

Accession Number

2008/2.229

Medium and Support

watercolor and ink wash on paper and painted wood

relevance

rank 10.30141

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

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visual works by medium or technique

wood and wood products

Title

Peasants in an Interior

Artist

Bartholomeus Molenaer

Physical Description

Groups of figures sit crowded around tables in a dark, smoky interior. In the foreground a man dressed in white hose and a red cap leans on a barrel, his tankard placed at his feet, and looks directly ahead out of the scene. To his left several men cluster around a table to drink and smoke, while other dimly lit figures sit and move about in the background.

Artist Life Dates

1618-1650

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1635-1645

Accession Number

1985/1.196

Medium and Support

oil on panel

relevance

rank 10.24491

Secondary Keywords

containers

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scientists and people in science-related occupations

vessels for serving and consuming food

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

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Title

Sandcastle

Artist

Anne Truitt

Physical Description

A long, low rectangular with a painted band of green extends around the rectangle at floor level. The upper half is painted off-white. About three fourths of the length is uniform. The other quarter, at the viewer's right, has several features: two depressed areas, and two raised areas, which are painted in a brighter white.

Artist Life Dates

1921-2004

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1963

Accession Number

1984/2.57

Medium and Support

acrylic on wood

relevance

rank 10.17947

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

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visual works by medium or technique

Title

Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry

Artist

Sebastiano Conca

Physical Description

Two women accompanied by a pair of putti appear seated in the foreground of this painting. On the left sits a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing a long white robe and a vivid ocher-colored mantle. She leans on a globe while cradling a large book in her right arm to which she points with her left hand. In her right hand she holds a compass. A putto peeks from beneath her mantle, and a viol is visible beneath the globe. The other woman sits on a cloud. She wears a golden crown and a richly colored blue mantle. She grasps a lyre with her left hand and leans toward the woman seated next to her, gesturing in the direction of the book with her right hand. A second putto stands near her left shoulder holding a gold circlet in his left hand. The background is filled with glimpses of neoclassical architecture, including fluted columns and a facade with a row of Ionic columns supporting an entablature.

Artist Life Dates

1680 - 1764

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1725

Accession Number

1987/1.159

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.15311

Secondary Keywords

artistic concepts

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descriptors

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paintings

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people and culture

sound devices

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visual works

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Title

Study for a Chapel in Vienna

Artist

Andrea Pozzo

Physical Description

This study depicts a rectangular chapel with the side walls bent outward at an angle in order to provide a clearer view of the decoration. The chapel design centers upon a sarcophagus placed beneath a painted altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, which are both set within a semicircular architectural projection that extends dynamically from the wall. On the left the pair of angels that support a large oval-shaped painting reach vigorously outward, their wings overlapping the pilasters. On the right appears another sarcophagus surmounted by a pair of putti. Leaning out from the oval niche above the sarcophagus is a female half-figure—probably a portrait of the deceased—making a gesture of devotion toward the altar.

Artist Life Dates

1642-1709

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1662-1709

Accession Number

1960/2.124

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.08007

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Esther before Ahasuerus

Artist

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Physical Description

A bearded man, wearing majestic red robes with a large ermine collar and a green turban surmounted by a crown, sits on a throne at left. He leans forward, holding a long thin scepter in his right hand while touching his chest with his left. Before him stand two women supporting a third, who has fainted. This third woman wears a splendid blue robe ornamented with a row of opulent clasps, a luxurious golden cloak lined with pink fabric, and a crown that seems to tilt precariously on the back of her head. The man looks intently into the face of the fainted woman, while the two women, in turn, watch his expression closely.

Artist Life Dates

1591-1666

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1639

Accession Number

1963/2.45

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.06376

Secondary Keywords

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Title

The Edwards Family on a Terrace

Artist

Charles Philips

Physical Description

Six figures appear in a formal garden landscape. On the right a pair of men in powdered wigs stand behind two women, one seated in a wheelchair, before an elaborate portico. A pair of boys, also sporting wigs, stand on the left, partly screened by a fountain. One of the boys holds a shell and the other carries a parrot. A small pool extends through the middle ground behind the figures and draws attention to the setting and the distant obelisk visible above the trees.

Artist Life Dates

1708 - 1747

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1732

Accession Number

2000/2.3

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.02026

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

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descriptors

england (country)

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Title

Abstract Composition (Abstrakte Komposition)

Artist

László Moholy-Nagy

Physical Description

A spare and restrained abstract composition, built up out of layers of mostly translucent basic geometric forms. The grey tones of the background are created with large rectangle shapes. In the upper part of the piece is a light colored circle, with a brighter circle inside it. Both are crossed by an axis of bright, thin orange lines. On the left, the point of a triangle protrudes from the edge. It is covered by a faint gray trapezoidal shape. Three small black semi-circles are also visible: one along the lines inside the circles; the other two along the trapezoidal shape and just beneath the triangle.

Artist Life Dates

Hungary, 1895-1946

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1925

Accession Number

1953/2.9

Medium and Support

watercolor, India ink, and collage on off-white wove paper

relevance

rank 10.01863

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

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Title

A Monument in Rouen

Artist

Hughie O'Donoghue

Physical Description

A collection of abstract landscape and figure with a photographic image. The figure, Christlike in its pose, runs up roughly the middle of the painting, looking also like a road or a path across the bleak landscape. In the upper left is a photographic image of some military trucks and a scaffold tower. Along the left half of the landscape, names of towns are written in the paint.

Artist Life Dates

born 1953

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1999-2000

Accession Number

2001/2.80

Medium and Support

oil and inkjet on gampi tissue on linen

relevance

rank 9.93431

Secondary Keywords

armed conflicts

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Title

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Artist

Gaspare Traversi

Physical Description

The half-length figure of a woman looks directly out of the painting and holds the bearded head of a man on a platter in her hands. She wears a fine robe with large white sleeves and collar, a soft hat with a small white feather, and a bejeweled pin on her left shoulder. The face of an older woman with deeply wrinkled skin appears in the shadows behind her.

Artist Life Dates

1722-1724 - circa 1770

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1760

Accession Number

1996/2.16

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 9.80040

Secondary Keywords

bible

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Title

Artillery Battle (Artillerieschlacht)

Artist

Otto Dix

Physical Description

A human face in anguish, with hands raised to his cheeks, looks out from the center of a visual field full of slashing diagonals and explosive triangles of color. On the left side, smoke billows.

Artist Life Dates

1891 - 1969

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1917

Accession Number

1967/1.41

Medium and Support

charcoal and gouache on paper mounted on linen

relevance

rank 9.78767

Secondary Keywords

armed conflicts

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visual works by medium or technique

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weapons

weapons and ammunition

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Title

Ancona with a View of the Arch of Trajan

Artist

Samuel Prout

Physical Description

This small watercolor shows the view of an arch by a city waterfront. A wall closes off the left side of the street leading up to the arch, and creates a powerful sense of recession into space leading from the foreground to the monument in the middle distance. Scattered figures inhabit the street. Beyond the arch may be glimpsed the waters of a bay and a hill rising above the far shore.

Artist Life Dates

(1783 - 1852)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1824-1852

Accession Number

2009/1.511.4

Medium and Support

watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper

relevance

rank 9.78196

Secondary Keywords

bodies of water

bodies of water and components of bodies of water

bodies of water by location

buildings and the land

coastline bodies of water

descriptors

europe (continent)

geographic and political locations

image-making processes and techniques

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memorial arches

monuments

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paintings

paintings by material or technique

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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 9.75568

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

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geometric concepts

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paintings

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solids (geometric)

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visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Fire Engine Red

Artist

Dorothea Rockburne

Physical Description

Two large panels painted red panels of aluminum, situated against one another so that the seam is visible at center. A line of white runs along each panel's outer edge.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1932

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1967

Accession Number

1997/1.136.1-2

Medium and Support

wrinkle finish paint (oil) on aluminum

relevance

rank 9.55239

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

emergency vehicles

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genres

image-making processes and techniques

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styles and periods

styles and periods by region

transportation vehicles

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visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Two Girls Reading (Deux Enfants Lisant)

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Physical Description

Two girls, depicted in bold geometric shapes and block colors, reading a book together. The figure seated at viewer's right, slightly taller, is green and wearing yellow. The figure at viewer's left has a face of blue and white and is clothed in red resting her clasped hands upon an open book.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1973

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

March 28, 1934

Accession Number

1994/1.67

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 9.47360

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

european

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genres

image-making processes and techniques

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visual works by medium or technique