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Title
Oversized Lamp Shade
Artist
Stickley Brothers Furniture Company
Physical Description
The peaked shade has eight panels with overlaid linear copper border decoration above a cove molded lower rim. The lamp retains four original sockets. The upper column consists of an octagonal capped vase-form with a dominant ogee profile over a round medial column which is slightly beveled in form and decorated with spaced, spirally arranged brass rods applied to its surface. The octagonal molded base repeats the ogee profile of the upper vase form.
Artist Life Dates
1891 - circa 1947
Object Creation Date
circa 1904-1918
Accession Number
2013/2.241B
Medium and Support
patinated and hammered copper and brass with textured caramel slag glass panels
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rank 43.26076
Primary Keywords
lamps (lighting device components)
lamps (lighting devices)
lampshades
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Title
Monument to the Lycée Chases
Artist
Christian Boltanski
Physical Description
Three black and white photographs of young people's faces are vertically arranged. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictues. All the photos are surrounded by an arrangement of light bulbs, which are connected by a network of electrical cables that snake along the walls and over the photos.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1944
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1989
Accession Number
2006/1.154
Medium and Support
gelatin silver prints, biscuit tins, electric cables, and sixty-eight lightbulbs
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rank 34.46752
Primary Keywords
assemblages (sculpture)
deaths
gelatin silver prints
lamps (lighting device components)
light art
memory
mortality
vienna (inhabited place)
youth
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Title
Untitled (March 5th) #2
Artist
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Physical Description
Two forty-watt light bulbs in simple porcelain light sockets hang together by their extension cords from a nail on the wall.
Artist Life Dates
1957-1996
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1991
Accession Number
1999/2.17
Medium and Support
40-watt light bulbs, extension cords, porcelain light sockets
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rank 34.14223
Primary Keywords
abstraction
aids
conceptual
deaths
installations (sculpture)
lamps (lighting device components)
light art
lovers
memory
minimal
mortality
ready-mades
time
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