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Title

Key and Cue No. 1182 (Remembrance has a rear and front)

Artist

Roni Horn

Physical Description

Aluminum shaft with block letters cast in black plastic.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1994

Accession Number

2009/1.470

Medium and Support

cast plastic and aluminum

relevance

rank 11.20082

Primary Keywords

abstraction

memory

poetry

text

Title

Untitled [Manassas #25]

Artist

Sally Mann

Physical Description

Antique- and aged-looking photograph of a dreamy, perhaps nocturnal landscape. In the foreground a massive tree rises up into the hazy night, and trees recede into the distance. White pock marks give the whole scene, sky and land, an ethereal starry look.

Artist Life Dates

Born 1951

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

2000

Accession Number

2004/2.129

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 9.89532

Primary Keywords

battlefields

cultural landscape

daylight

gelatin silver prints

history (discipline)

memory

natural landscapes

time

trees

virginia (state)

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

relevance

rank 9.70676

Primary Keywords

assemblages (sculpture)

deaths

gelatin silver prints

lamps (lighting device components)

light art

memory

mortality

vienna (inhabited place)

youth

Title

Untitled (Virginia)

Artist

Sally Mann

Physical Description

Contemporary black and white photograph made to look old. The image is contained within the circular field created by the aperture. A foggy landscape with silhouetted trees receding from the left into the hazy distance and sky.

Artist Life Dates

Born 1951

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1993; printed 2002

Accession Number

2003/1.365

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print, toned with tea on paper

relevance

rank 9.61530

Primary Keywords

daylight

field

gelatin silver prints

historic landscapes

history (discipline)

memory

natural landscapes

time

virginia (state)

Title

Study for 'Image in Xhorkom'

Artist

Arshile Gorky

Physical Description

Black and white drawing of organic forms vaguely resembling human figures flowing into one another in a room-like space. On the right hand side of the grouping stands the most recognizably humanoid figure.

Artist Life Dates

1904 - 1948

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1936

Accession Number

1964/2.41

Medium and Support

graphite and tempera on off-white laid paper

relevance

rank 9.61530

Primary Keywords

armenia

armenia (historical region)

biomorphic abstraction

childhood

families

figures (representations)

memory

preparatory drawings

surrealism

surrealist

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

relevance

rank 9.61515

Primary Keywords

abstraction

aids

conceptual

deaths

installations (sculpture)

lamps (lighting device components)

light art

lovers

memory

minimal

mortality

ready-mades

time

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 9.48444

Primary Keywords

figures (representations)

land vehicles

memory

natural landscapes

oil painting

oil paintings

rouen (inhabited place)

world war ii

Title

Three Gold Rings, from Ringed Series

Artist

Todd Hoyer

Physical Description

A bulbous vessel with narrow mouth and base. The wood is burned and cracked and circled by three gold bands, two of which overlap.

burnt wood vessel with gold

Artist Life Dates

b. 1952

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

2002/2.145

Medium and Support

eucalyptus, imitation gold leaf

relevance

rank 9.39809

Primary Keywords

burning

deaths

families

memory

mortality

pyrography

vessels

wood (plant material)

woodworking

woodworking and woodworking processes and techniques