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Title

Untitled (Dollhouse); from the 2002 Peter Norton Family Christmas Project

Artist

Yinka Shonibare

Physical Description

Dollhouse replica of a two-storey Victorian-style flat in the East End of London. The façade is red brick with white molding. The upper storey has two tall windows that face onto the street; the door into the flat is on the left, and to the right of it is a large bay window. The split-level interior holds a bedroom and parlor, both of which are decorated with wallpaper and furnishings, including cabinets, chairs, tables, fireplaces, and a canopy bed. Reproductions of paintings by Shonibare and Jean-Honoré Fragonard hang on the walls. A seal on the right-facing outside wall reads: “Yinka Shonibare, artist, lives here.”

Artist Life Dates

born 1962

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

2002

Accession Number

2008/2.256

Medium and Support

resin, plastic, wood, paper and fabric

Secondary Keywords

architectural elements

associated concepts

british

case furniture

components

components and systems

components by specific context

culture and related concepts

culture-related concepts

derivative objects

descriptors

england (country)

europe (continent)

european

european regions

european styles and periods

fireplaces and fireplace components

furnishings

furnishings by form or function

furniture by form or function

geographic and political locations

greater london (metropolitan area)

heating and cooking elements

image-making processes and techniques

modern british styles and movements

modern british styles by reign

modern european regional styles and movements

modern european styles and movements

object genres

object-making processes and techniques

objects we use

originals and derivative objects

paintings

paintings by form

people and culture

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

recreation

recreational artifacts

recreational artifacts for noncompetitive activities

sculpture techniques

seating furniture

single seating furniture

sleeping and reclining furniture

storage and display furniture

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

support furniture

united kingdom (nation)

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Ellen Van Volkenburg (Mrs. Maurice Browne)

Artist

Kathleen Wheeler

Physical Description

White plaster bust.

Artist Life Dates

1884-1977

Century

20th-century

Object Creation Date

circa 1900-1946

Accession Number

1946.2

Medium and Support

plaster

Secondary Keywords

head

people and occupations

women

Title

Landscape with emissaries coming to bestow high rank on scholar in retirement

Artist

Zhan Weijin (Chan Wei-ch'in)

Artist Life Dates

active late 18th century

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1798

Accession Number

2002/2.352

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper

Secondary Keywords

figures

people and occupations

the natural world

Title

Medicine in Ancient Egypt, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

An Egyptian physician of the Eighteenth Century (1500-1400 B.C.), clothed in clean white linen and a wig, as became the dignity of his status, is confronted with a patient having symptoms of lockjaw (described in an ancient scroll now known as the Edwin Smith papyrus). With sure, sympathetic hands, the physician treats the patient, who is supported by a "brick chair." Directions for treatment appear on the scroll held by his assistant. Specially trained priests observe prescribed magico-religious rites. Egyptian medicine occupied a dominant position in the world of the ancients for 2500 years.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.1

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

The Temples and Cult of Asclepius, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Every night for nearly a thousand years (500 B.C. - 500 A.D.), sick and afflicted pilgrims flocked to the Grecian Temples of Asclepius to take part of a ritual called incubation. The ancient kindly god of medicine was expected to visit them during a dream state and either heal or prescribe drugs, diet, and modes of treatment. Only requisites were that they should be clean and "think pure thoughts." To show their appreciation, recipients of Asclepius' favor caused votives (stone or terra cotta images of the afflicted parts which supposedly had been healed) to be made, suitably inscribed, and presented to be hung as testimony on the temple walls. More than 200 such temples existed.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.5

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)

Artist

Joseph Rosset

Artist Life Dates

1706-1786

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1726-1786

Accession Number

1969/2.14

Medium and Support

ivory with wood base

Secondary Keywords

figures

people and occupations

Title

Rhazes and Arabic Medicine, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

The West is deeply indebted to medieval Arabs for preservation of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge during the Middle Ages. and for improving on it. Our numeral system and many words, such as alcohol, came from the East, as did many medical advances. Leaders in the Arabic medicine were the Persians, Rhazes, and Avicenna. Rhazes (865-925 A.D.), noted for keen observation and inventiveness, was first to describe measles and smallpox; to observe pupillary reaction to light; to use mercurial purgatives; and to publish a text on children's diseases. His teachings were highly regarded for many centuries.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.9

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Ambroise Paré: Surgery Acquires Stature

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Ambroise Paré, a young French army surgeon with troops of King François at Turin, in 1536, had his first experience treated men for arquebus wounds. Running ouf of boiling oil (traditional treatment for gunshot injuries), he improvised, discovered that unburned patients healed much better, and resolved never to use hot oil again. Countless soliders and citizens benefited from this rule. It was some years later, in 1552, that Paré put aside cautery irons used to stop bleeding in amputations and reintroduced ligatures for tying blood vessels. During his life (1510-1590), inventive, observant, compassionate Paré served as surgeon to four French kings; earned the title: "Father of Surgery."

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.13

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Madame Rejane

Artist

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Physical Description

Portrait of a woman wearing mens clothign with a top hat, scarf around her neck and a suit jacket.

Artist Life Dates

1864-1901

Object Creation Date

late 19th century

Accession Number

2014/1.622

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

Secondary Keywords

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

visual works

visual works by subject type

Title

Morgagni and Pathologic Anatomy, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

In the famous anatomic amphitheatre built in 1590, Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) demonstrated before medical students from many countries during the 56 years he served as Professor of Anatomy at the famed University of Padua. Although his first book was published in 1704, Morgagni's greatest contribution to medicine, "On the Seats and Causes of Disease," came out 57 years later, in 1761. This five-book work, embodying a lifetime's experience in dissection and in observation, convinced medical men that diseases were not dispersed generally throughout the body, but got their start locally in specific organs or tissues. It ranks high among 18th-century scientific works.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.18

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Pinel Unchains the Insane, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

The Father of Psychiatry, French physician Philippe Pinel, in 1795 ordered chains and fetters removed from insame women in the Salpêtrière, large Parisian hospital. Two years earlier, he had similarily unchained insane men in the Bicêtre. Despite political and medical opposition and uncertainties of life during the hectic period of the French Revolution, Pinel persisted in replacing cruelty and inhumanity with understanding, kindness, and rational therapy. His success in curing and relieving patients suffering from mental diseases opened new perspectives for psychiatric research and practice.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.22

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Semmelweis-Defender of Motherhood, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Hungarian physician Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), while Assistant at the First Obstetric Clinic of Vienna's great Allgemeine Krankenhaus in 1847, discovered means of preventing puerperal fever: he insisted that physicians and medical students wash their hands in chlorinated solution before entering obstetric wards and again before examining each patient. His rule was much resented and opposed - but hundreds of mothers' lives were saved. Though his doctrine was proved repeatedly, in hospitals in Vienna and in Budapest, most of his contemporaries opposed it; and, both depressed from worry and broken-hearted from disappointment, Semmelweis died at age 47, of blood poisoning, the infection he had fought so valiantly to prevent in mothers under his care.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.26

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Egúngún headress (erin type)

Artist

Adugbologe Workshop of Abeokuta, Yoruba Peoples Nigeria

Physical Description

A massive, baroque, and busy wood-carved headdress with stylized face (showing classic Yoruba features) of bulging eyes with defined upper lids, long, straight, triangular nose, symmetrical scarification patterns consisting of three horizontal lines on each cheek, a short beard from ear to ear just underneath the lower lip. Two large “ears” protrude on either side of head and act as “scaffolding” for numerous attachments of symbolic content: birds and lions predominate, but also visible are amulets, wooden claws and beads, crosses, and an insignia shield of some kind. The ears terminate in two oblong mirrors with lions leaping off of each. Layers of pigment are visible, giving impression it has been repainted over time.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1960

Accession Number

1985/1.183

Medium and Support

wood, mirrors, pigment, gourd, beads, metal

Secondary Keywords

accessories worn on the head

animals and creatures

associated concepts

costume

costume accessories

costume accessories worn

events

headgear

mammals

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by family relationship

religions and religious concepts

religious concepts

Title

J. Marion Sims: Gynecologic Surgeon, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.30

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Charcot: Master of Neurology, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

Greatest neurologist of the 19th century, Parisian physician Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) developed La Salpêtrière from an asylum for indigent women to one of France's leading hospitals. Charcot's study and care of its vast patient population led to teaching, research, and the creation of the world's leading neurological clinic; attracted students from many nations; raised neurology to a respected medical science. Some of Charcot's teachings inspired Sigmund Freud of Vienna (Charcot's student, 1885-1886) to develop the world-famous Freudian hypothesis on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.34

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Walter B. Cannon: Physiologic Investigator, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

While a first-year student at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1896, Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945) employed newly discovered x-rays to study the activities of digestive organs in animals. Cannon induced cats to eat radiopaque meals, and followed food through alimentary organs with the aid of a fluroscopic screen. Basic studies of digestion, and of effects of emotions on it, led to new understandings of food utilization, of transmission of nerve impulses, and of actions of endocrine glands. Second Professor of Physiology at Harvard, Dr. Cannon earned world-wide respect as a researcher, as a teacher, and also as an ambassador of scientific good will.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.38

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Goldberger: Dietary Deficiency and Disease, from "The History of Medicine"

Artist

Robert Thom

Physical Description

When Dr. Joseph Goldberger, Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, and his assistant, Dr. C. H. Waring, begam studies of pellagra at the Baptist Orphanage near Jackson, Mississippi, in 1914, they faced puzzling questions: why were adults, older children, and the very young, free of the disease? Why, every year, did it strike children aged three to twelve? Dr. Goldberger ruled out infection or toxic foods as causes. With cooperation of Director J.R. Carter and House Mother "Miss Ida," the doctors added fresh meat, eggs, and milk to diets. Pellagra disappeared. By bold experiments, Dr. Goldberger proved dietary deficiency the cause of pellagra; pointed other researchers toward discovery of essential nutrients, now called vitamins, required to maintain health.

Artist Life Dates

1915-1979

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1952

Accession Number

UMHS.42

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

disciplines

health sciences

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in health and medicine

people in science-related occupations

science and related disciplines

scientists and people in science-related occupations

Title

Pot and Stone

Artist

Takahashi Suigaku

Physical Description

Japanese style ink painting of a pot with vegetation inside of it next to a stone. The image is colored, with the rock painted in a grayish ink and the vegetation a green color. The pot has no color but is outlined in black ink only. There is writing in the top right corner of the paper.

Artist Life Dates

(c. 1840)

Object Creation Date

mid 19th century

Accession Number

2009/2.101

Medium and Support

ink and light color on paper

Secondary Keywords

asian

coating (material)

coating by form

containers

containers by function or context

containers for cooking food

cookware

culinary containers

descriptors

east asian

inorganic material

materials

materials by composition

materials by function

objects we use

people and culture

rock

rock by form

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

vessels for cooking food

Title

Untitled

Artist

Ernestine Ruben

Physical Description

This work consists of seven photographic prints on semi-transparent fabric, gradually increasing in length, that hang from the sloping ceiling of a stairway in the Frankel Wing. Each panel of fabric has a different image including, craggy rocks, tree branches against the sky, sunlight reflecting on water and marshland, flames of fire and cloud like formations. Four are black and white images and the three others are color prints.

Artist Life Dates

born 1931

Century

21st century

Object Creation Date

2009

Accession Number

2009/1.469.1-7

Medium and Support

inkjet prints on fabric

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

daylight

descriptors

electromagnetic radiation

energy

energy and related concepts

inorganic material

light (energy)

materials

materials by composition

objects we use

people and culture

photographs

physical sciences concepts

physics concepts

rock

scientific concepts

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Thangka

Artist

Tibet

Accession Number

1995/1.54

Medium and Support

cotton with opaque watercolor

Secondary Keywords

asian

associated concepts

people and culture

religions

religions and religious concepts

south asian

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

Title

Element from a mosiac frieze, entrance hall of the H.O. Havemeyer House New York (one of 10 elements)

Artist

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Physical Description

This mosaic panel depicts flowers and tendrils against a background with both a chevron pattern and a round flower-like patten. Along either side is a tapering beige element that is half of a blade of a plant; when joined with another panel, they create a full plant blade. [fragment]

Artist Life Dates

1848-1933

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1890-1891

Accession Number

1986.146.8G

Medium and Support

iridescent glass and plaster

Secondary Keywords

architecture

buildings

historical figures

people and occupations

Title

Kesa (monk's surplice) Fragment

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Century

17th century?

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

2003/2.21

Medium and Support

kinran (gold-covered paper) peony designs againt a floating floss silk ground

Secondary Keywords

objects

people and occupations

religion

religions

religious figures

Title

Bacchanale

Artist

Louis-Felix de La Rue

Physical Description

Image of women, children and a man by a tree and more figures in the background to the right.

Artist Life Dates

1731-1765

Accession Number

2015/1.385

Medium and Support

etching on paper

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

buildings and the land

landscapes (environments)

natural landscapes

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by age group

people by gender

plants

settlements and landscapes

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

woody plants

Title

Pope Nicholas V (obverse), Nicholas V in the Ship "Eclesia" (reverse)

Artist

Andrea Guacioloti

Physical Description

The obverse of this medal depicts a profile portrait of a man with a tonsure. The reverse represents a man holding a cross-staff piloting a boat labeled "Eclesia" along the gunwale. Both sides of the medal have inscriptions around the edge.

Artist Life Dates

1435-1495

Century

15th century

Object Creation Date

1455

Accession Number

1984/1.283

Medium and Support

cast bronze

Secondary Keywords

image form

biological components

christian clergy

clergy

components

components and systems

components by specific context

descriptors

forming

medals

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by occupation

people in religion

people in religion and related occupations

people in the humanities

prelates

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

the human body

transportation vehicles

upper body

vehicles

views

views by vantage point or orientation

visual works

visual works by form

visual works by subject type

watercraft

watercraft by general type

Title

Formal gray crested kimono with embroidered designs of suzume odori figures dancing in the rain

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

Gray silk crepe (repp weave) shot through with metallic threads, with silk and metallic thread embroidered design of figures doing the suzume odori (crow dance) in the rain (suzume odori). Lining is plain weave silk, white above and gray below.

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1970s - 1980s

Accession Number

2005/1.382

Medium and Support

gray silk crepe with silk and metallic thread embroidery

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

arts

arts and related disciplines

associated concepts

costume

costume by form

descriptors

disciplines

earth sciences concepts

humanities

main garments

needleworking

needleworking and needleworking techniques

objects we use

people and culture

performing arts

physical sciences concepts

precipitation

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by material

processes and techniques by specific type

scientific concepts

textile processes and techniques

textile working processes and techniques

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

Title

Portrait of a Man

Artist

Artist Unknown

Object Creation Date

n.d.

Accession Number

1895.25

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

people and occupations

Title

Workers Council, Geran Car Factory, Poland

Artist

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Physical Description

A group of people meeting for their council at a car factory.

Artist Life Dates

1908-2004

Object Creation Date

1956

Accession Number

2014/2.324

Medium and Support

vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

freewheeled vehicles

freewheeled vehicles by form or function

industrial buildings

industrial structures

land vehicles

land vehicles by form

objects we use

passenger vehicles

people

people and culture

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

transportation vehicles

vehicles

Title

Esther and Ahasuerus

Artist

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Physical Description

Drawing of a male figure on left wearing a headress and holding a stick-like object with three female figures on the right, two of which are standing behind the third as if holding her up.

Artist Life Dates

1591 - 1666

Object Creation Date

1639

Accession Number

2008/1.161

Medium and Support

pen and ink on paper

Secondary Keywords

drawings

drawings by function

monarchs

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by gender

people by occupation

people in government and administration

rulers (people)

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Moire silk michiyuki coat

Artist

Artist Unknown, Japan

Physical Description

This michiyuki features a cloud design with a shimmering effect created by the layering of silk material. Blue, green, and turquoise clouds are painted in an alternating pattern without touching one another, and appear to shimmer from behind a transparent blue painted silk overlay.

Century

second half of 20th century

Object Creation Date

1970s - 1990s

Accession Number

2005/1.403

Medium and Support

dark burgundy silk with green, blue, and purple dyed clouds

Secondary Keywords

associated concepts

costume

costume by form

earth sciences concepts

main garments

objects we use

people and culture

physical sciences concepts

scientific concepts

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

Title

Landscape with Figure

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

A man leaning against trees in a landscape scene. A mountain in the back and a trail beginning at the bottom left.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1953/1.54

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

atmospheric effects

geography

people and occupations

plants

the natural world

Title

Album of 11 Sketches ( collaborative work by multiple artists): hauling a boat

Artist

Japan, Signature and/or Seal Unread

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1923

Accession Number

1982/2.7.9

Medium and Support

album leaf, ink and light color on paper

Secondary Keywords

asian

forms

making art

people and occupations

plants

sketches

the natural world

Title

Figure of a Man sitting with a rifle

Artist

African, Nigeria, Ibo

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1950

Accession Number

1983/2.175

Medium and Support

Pottery

Secondary Keywords

objects

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people and occupations

people by gender

physical activities

physical activities by general context

visual works

visual works by subject type

weaponry

Title

Rouge box with lid

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

Early 20th century

Object Creation Date

early 20th century

Accession Number

1983/1.365.1-2

Medium and Support

porcelain with overglaze enamel painting with gold

Secondary Keywords

containers

containers by form

objects we use

people and occupations

plants

the natural world

vessels

Title

Serpent Speaking to a Young Man (Allegory)

Artist

Anonymous Italian

Physical Description

There are three figures. At the left is a man running away. At the center is a woman holding a lute and at the right is a man seated with his hand on his head. At the center, there is a woman-headed serpent facing the seated man. Behind the seated man is an apple tree and in the far distance there is a large fortified city.

Century

15th-16th century

Accession Number

2013/2.576

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

open spaces

open spaces and site elements

open spaces by form

people

people (agents)

people and culture

Title

Small bottle with incised design

Artist

Artist Unknown, Korea

Physical Description

It has a flat round shaped-body and a rim in the shape of a hemisphere. The foot is small and low-rising. The shoulder is adorned with cloud.

Century

12th century

Object Creation Date

12th century

Accession Number

1966/2.28

Medium and Support

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Secondary Keywords

asian

containers

containers by form

east asian

objects we use

people and culture

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

vessels

Title

Yao Ritual Scroll

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

mid 19th century–mid 20th century

Object Creation Date

19th century - mid 20th century

Accession Number

1983/2.122

Medium and Support

handscroll, ink and color on cotton

Secondary Keywords

animals

mammals

objects

people and occupations

religion

the natural world

transportation

vehicles

Title

Ring me again Third Liberty Loan

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

Text: Ring Me Again - (in center cut out) Push Over Door Knob - Third Liberty Loan - Buy U.S. Government Bonds

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1917

Accession Number

1995/2.21

Medium and Support

color lithograph on paper

Secondary Keywords

armed conflicts

declaratory and advertising artifacts

events

information artifacts

information artifacts by function

information forms

objects we use

people and culture

world wars

Title

Sibyl Seated with Tablet

Artist

Bartolomeo Coriolano

Physical Description

A woman wearing long robes sits holding a pen in her right hand and props up a blank tablet in her lap. A putto helps support the table from behind and points toward the seated figure. A pot of ink with another pen appears next to his foot.

Artist Life Dates

(ca. 1599 - ca. 1676)

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

17th century

Accession Number

2009/2.23

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

descriptors

design elements

drafting, drawing and writing equipment

drafting, drawing and writing equipment by specific type

equipment

equipment by process

figure- and animal-derived motifs

image-making equipment

information artifacts

information artifacts by physical form

information forms

motifs

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by activity

prints

prints by process

prints by process or technique

relief prints

tools and equipment

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

woodcuts

Title

Covered jar with design of flower maiden, sage, and child amidst flowering plants

Artist

Artist Unknown, Imari ware, Japan

Physical Description

A medium size, well potted porcelain jar with wooden rid, round shoulder and neck. Floral designs are painted with blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze enamels. There are Chinese scholar and attendant boy with a fan on one side and Japanese lady in kimono on the opposite side, painted with enamels. Band of flowers on the neck, another broader band of chrysanthemums on the shoulder. There is also a band of leaf patterns on the bottom. A large crack from neck to the middle of the body; porcelain glaze has small cracks all over the body. The foot is unglazed; the eye is fully glazed. No glaze on the rim. The teak wood lid, a later addition, has a finial made of an ivory netsuke of laughing Hotei.

Century

Mid-17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1650

Accession Number

1972/2.72A&B

Medium and Support

porcelain, blue underglaze, and enamel overglaze painting

Secondary Keywords

buildings and the land

containers

containers by form

flowers (plants)

herbaceous plants

landscapes (environments)

natural landscapes

objects we use

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by activity

people by gender

plants

sage (people)

settlements and landscapes

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

vessels

woody plants

Title

Single Pedestal Desk

Artist

George Nakashima Woodworkers

Object Creation Date

early 1950

Accession Number

2014/2.100A&B

Medium and Support

figured walnut

Secondary Keywords

arts and related disciplines

arts-related disciplines

descriptors

disciplines

furnishings

furnishings by form or function

furniture

humanities

materials

materials by origin

objects we use

people and culture

plant material

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

the americas

wood and wood products

Title

Covered Box in the Shape of a Stacked Basket (Base)

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Congo (Zaire), Kuba

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1930

Accession Number

1985/1.162B

Medium and Support

carved wood

Secondary Keywords

african

african styles by region

central and equatorial african styles

central democratic republic of congo styles

containers

containers by form

descriptors

object genres

object genres by function

objects

objects we use

people and culture

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

vessels

western democratic republic of congo styles

Title

Ali Mountain Based on Sketches - 5

Artist

Chang Ku-nien

Physical Description

One of six hanging scrolls in a series depicting the landscape of Ali Mountain, trees and hillside are shown below calligraphic text. The artist uses alternating wet ink washes for the misty clouds and dry flying-brushes for the large pine trees

Artist Life Dates

(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1965

Accession Number

2006/1.140

Medium and Support

hanging scroll, ink on paper

Secondary Keywords

upward

associated concepts

buildings and the land

coating (material)

coating by form

descriptors

earth sciences concepts

image-making processes and techniques

landforms

landforms and landform components

landforms by shape or position

materials

materials by function

natural landscapes

objects we use

paintings

paintings by form

people and culture

physical sciences concepts

plants

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

scientific concepts

scroll paintings

settlements and landscapes

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena

woody plants

writing (processes)

Title

Empress Elizabeth I of Russia (1709-1762)

Artist

Anonymous

Object Creation Date

n.d.

Accession Number

1895.78

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Secondary Keywords

people and occupations

Title

Illuminated Manuscript

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

Two columns of text with a large decorated letter and an ornate floral border of blue, gold and brown.

Accession Number

2015/2.3A&B

Medium and Support

ink and gold leaf on paper

Secondary Keywords

components

components and systems

components by specific context

document genres

document genres by conditions of production

european

european styles and periods

information form components

information forms

layout features

medieval styles and periods

objects we use

people and culture

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

Title

Staff

Artist

Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba

Accession Number

2001/2.41

Medium and Support

wood with metal

Secondary Keywords

african

african styles by region

descriptors

equipment

equipment by context

equipment for personal use

object genres

object genres by material

objects we use

people and culture

southern nigerian styles

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

tools and equipment

west african styles

Title

Illuminated Manuscript

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

Brown ink notes and lettering with red staff lines and some red lettering with a decorated letter.

Accession Number

2015/2.7A&B

Medium and Support

ink and gold leaf on paper

Secondary Keywords

components

components and systems

components by specific context

document genres

document genres by conditions of production

european

european styles and periods

information form components

information forms

layout features

medieval styles and periods

objects we use

people and culture

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

Title

Bust of a Man, Possibly Garibaldi (1807-1882)

Artist

Richard Greenough

Physical Description

Man's head with beard, black paint with faded green.

Artist Life Dates

1819-1904

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1889

Accession Number

before6/30/46.12

Medium and Support

painted plaster

Secondary Keywords

people and occupations

Title

Portrait of a Young Man

Artist

Anonymous American

Physical Description

Man seated wearing a dark suit, hands folded in lap. Brown hair, red chair behind.

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1940.382

Medium and Support

oil on canvas, mounted on panel

Secondary Keywords

man

people and occupations

Title

Quathlamba II, from "Notched V Series"

Artist

Frank Stella

Artist Life Dates

born 1936

Object Creation Date

1968

Accession Number

2014/2.21

Medium and Support

lithograph on paper

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

european

european styles and periods

image-making processes and techniques

modern european fine arts styles and movements

modern european styles and movements

people and culture

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

Title

Duality of Opposites II

Artist

Patricia Olynyk

Physical Description

An abstract image of red, blue, purple, orange and yellow with varying lines going in different directions. One side of the work is the darker colors and slowly changes to the brighter on the right hand side.

Object Creation Date

2002

Accession Number

2014/2.103

Medium and Support

color monoprint on paper

Secondary Keywords

components

components and systems

components by specific context

disciplines

european

european styles and periods

information form components

layout features

modern european fine arts styles and movements

modern european styles and movements

people and culture

styles and periods

styles and periods by region