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Title

Demolished Building, Paris, France

Artist

Leonard Freed

Physical Description

A demolished building in ruins on a city street. There is pavement and trees below.

Object Creation Date

1978

Accession Number

2014/2.335

Medium and Support

vintage gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 10.34674

Primary Keywords

building

ruins

Title

Ceramic Kiln in Seto

Artist

Kawase Hasui

Physical Description

A crescent moon hangs in a gray sky above a Seto kiln. A figure with his back to the viewer walks alongside the kiln.

Artist Life Dates

1883-1957

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1920s - 1940s

Accession Number

1991/2.115

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper, ôban tate-e size

relevance

rank 10.23172

Primary Keywords

building

moons, crescent

Title

Gas Tower Study #11, Vero Beach, Florida

Artist

David Bence

Physical Description

Top of a gas tower, highlighting the staircase.

Object Creation Date

2005

Accession Number

2013/1.237

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 10.23172

Primary Keywords

towers (building divisions)

Title

Gas Tower Study #10, Vero Beach, Florida

Artist

David Bence

Physical Description

Two gas towers surrounded by a concrete wall.

Object Creation Date

2000

Accession Number

2013/1.236

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 10.23172

Primary Keywords

towers (building divisions)

Title

Callecita

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

A black and white sketch of a building.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

circa 1959

Accession Number

2011/2.108

Medium and Support

black and white lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 10.11923

Primary Keywords

black and white

building

sketch

Title

The Rookery Building

Artist

Stanford Lipsey

Physical Description

A photograph of the light court of the Rookery Building in Chicago, Illinois.

Artist Life Dates

American, born 1927

Object Creation Date

2007

Accession Number

2011/1.79

Medium and Support

digital print on paper

relevance

rank 10.11923

Primary Keywords

building

ceiling

glass

photograph

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 10.11923

Primary Keywords

abstraction

building

cubist

gouaches

Title

Landscape

Artist

Katsushika Hokusai

Physical Description

The print depicts a landscape with water scene on the foreground with buildings, trees, and a bridge on the bank.

Artist Life Dates

1760 - 1849

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1st half of the 19th century

Accession Number

1984/2.39

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 9.90151

Primary Keywords

bridges

building

docks

landscape

trees

water

Title

Conway Castle

Artist

Alfred Rosling

Artist Life Dates

1802-1880's

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1987/1.337

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

relevance

rank 9.90151

Primary Keywords

castles

suspension bridges

towers (building divisions)

Title

Stupa: Hyakuman tô (one of one million pagodas)

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

Wooden miniture model of a tower, comprised of a round base, a bar in the middle where three larger discs and six or seven small discs are inserted. A bulb-shaped ornament rests on top.

Century

8th century

Object Creation Date

764-770

Accession Number

1969/2.21

Medium and Support

carved wood with traces of gesso

relevance

rank 9.79613

Primary Keywords

miniature (size attribute)

pagoda (building)

reliquary

stupa

Title

Pagoda of Hommon Temple, Ikegami

Artist

Kawase Hasui

Physical Description

Tall color print of Hommon Temple. A bright blue sky characterizes the top portion of the image, getting darker in the lower registers. The spire of the red temple stretches up into the sky.

Artist Life Dates

1883-1957

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1928

Accession Number

1982/1.202

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 9.79613

Primary Keywords

pagoda (building)

prints, woodblock

sky

temples

trees

Title

Aqueduct of Nerone, Tivoli

Artist

Joseph Antoine David de Marseille

Physical Description

This drawing depicts a landscape with two figures against a tree in dark wash in the lower left foreground and a faintly washed mid-ground scene of a relief of a crowd of figures on an architectural element. An arch of an aqueduct and a faint castle tower somewhat in ruins appear in the background surrounded by lush foliage.

Artist Life Dates

1725-1789

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

2012/2.191

Medium and Support

pen and ink, black chalk and grey wash over graphite on laid paper, laid down

relevance

rank 9.79613

Primary Keywords

aqueducts

landscapes (representations)

towers (building divisions)

trees

Title

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Artist

Stanford Lipsey

Physical Description

A photograph of part of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California.

Artist Life Dates

American, born 1927

Object Creation Date

2006

Accession Number

2011/1.78

Medium and Support

digital print on paper

relevance

rank 9.59195

Primary Keywords

building

concert hall

modern north american architecture styles and movements

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 9.59195

Primary Keywords

boats

italy (nation)

riverbanks

rivers

towers (building divisions)

watercolors

Title

Evening in Tokyo: Figures in Silhouette behind a Shoji screen

Artist

Takahashi Hiroaki

Physical Description

Near dusk, a woman in a kimono walks outside a Japanese style building with a shoji screen for a wall. The silhouettes of merry-makers inside can be seen, revealing the figure of a man and also a woman, probably a geisha, holding an instrument that appears to be a shamisen.

Artist Life Dates

1871-1944

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1900-1921

Accession Number

1991/2.110

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 9.49302

Primary Keywords

building

instruments, musical

kimono

night

screen (furniture)

tokyo (metropolis)

ukiyo-e

Title

The Labors of Hercules: The Dragon of the Garden of the Hesperides (one of the s

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1550

Accession Number

1956/1.68

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 8.25333

Primary Keywords

buildings

clubs (weapons)

dragon

dragons

fighting

hercules

house

lame

monsters

nudes

rocks

standing

tower

towers (building divisions)

towers (single built works)

trees

Title

Hunping (spirit jar)

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

Jar with grey-green celadon glaze; top half of vessel is filled with an assortment of figures, birds, and architectural elements in a tiered arrangement.

Century

3rd century

Object Creation Date

3rd century

Accession Number

2000/1.39

Medium and Support

stoneware with celadon glaze

relevance

rank 8.09280

Primary Keywords

birds

building

buildings

ceramics

flower (plant)

flowers

funerary object

funerary urns

funerary vessels

vessel

vessels