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Title: Aston Martin, Hazor, Israel (R13), from "The Ryoichi Excavations"
Artist: Patrick Nagatani
Physical Description: Car under excavation in Israel. Desert scene with rocks, excavation supplies including pitchforks.
Artist Life Dates: born 1945
Object Creation Date: 1990; printed 2001
Accession Number: 2012/2.143
Medium and Support: toned gelatin silver print on paper
relevance: rank 11.03185
Primary Keywords: automobiles; deserts; israel (nation)

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Title: Jeep Cherokee, Shahr-I-Sokhta, Seistan, Iran (R12), from"The Ryoichi Excavations"
Artist: Patrick Nagatani
Physical Description: Jeep Cherokee under excavation in the desert. Excavation supplies, including pitchforks in scene.
Artist Life Dates: born 1945
Object Creation Date: 1990; printed 2001
Accession Number: 2012/2.142
Medium and Support: toned gelatin silver print on paper
relevance: rank 11.03185
Primary Keywords: automobiles; deserts; iran (nation)

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Title: Ray God and Cat, Ica, Peru
Artist: Marilyn Bridges
Physical Description: A black and white aerial landscape image of a desert valley. The walls and ridges of the downward-sloping desert are marked with a series of ancient Peruvian characters.
Artist Life Dates: American, born 1957
Object Creation Date: 1989
Accession Number: 2012/2.11
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
relevance: rank 10.91188
Primary Keywords: aerial photography; deserts; landscape (environment)

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Title: Kharanah Castle, Qasr-Al Kharahah, Jordan (Palace #15)
Artist: Lynn Davis
Physical Description: The outer walls of Karanah Castle in Jordan. The desert ground makes up the entire foreground with the horizon line almost reaching the half-point of the photograph. Just below the horizon is the base of the structure. The castle itself is a rectangular brick wall with three rounded pillars built into it, two at the corners and one in the center. The sky above it is clear and cloudless.
Artist Life Dates: American, born 1944
Object Creation Date: 1995-1996
Accession Number: 2012/2.98
Medium and Support: selenium-toned gelatin silver print on paper
relevance: rank 10.67960
Primary Keywords: castles; deserts; gelatin silver process; jordan (nation)

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Title: Untitled (Head)
Artist: Michael Lucero
Physical Description: White earthenware “sleeping” head lying on its right cheek (right ear omitted to lay flat) with a geometric section of crown removed. The cut at the head is painted terra cotta, the cut at the neck painted with a landscape of a tree at the edge of a cliff. A forest scene set against pink mountains covers the face, and desert rock formations in silhouette cover the back of the head.
Artist Life Dates: (1953 - )
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1985
Accession Number: 2008/2.245
Medium and Support: glazes on white earthenware
relevance: rank 10.24351
Primary Keywords: ceramics; deserts; dreams; faces; forests; landscapes (representations); mountains; sleeping; surrealist; trees

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Title: Untitled (Cactus)
Artist: Steve Keister
Physical Description: Drawing on spiral sketchbook paper in green, blue and orange gouache inscribed with graphite pencil.
Artist Life Dates: (1949 - )
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1998
Accession Number: 2008/2.237
Medium and Support: gouache on paper
relevance: rank 9.65229
Primary Keywords: cacti; deserts; drawing (image-making); flowers (plants); pots; sketches; southwest (general region); southwestern native american styles; terracottas

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