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Title

Potsherd of presumable Han type

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Object Creation Date

2nd century BCE - 2nd century

Accession Number

1940.424

Medium and Support

earthenware, unglazed

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:25:03

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

inorganic material

materials

materials by composition

objects we use

rock

rock by form

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Shaped stone tool

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

50th c BCE

Object Creation Date

circa 5000 BCE

Accession Number

1940.422

Medium and Support

gray stone

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:25:03

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

inorganic material

materials

materials by composition

objects we use

rock

rock by form

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Ax or agricultural tool

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

50th c BCE

Object Creation Date

circa 5000 BCE

Accession Number

1940.421

Medium and Support

polished gray stone

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:25:03

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

inorganic material

materials

materials by composition

objects we use

rock

rock by form

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

St. Jerome

Artist

Carlo Naya

Artist Life Dates

Active from the late 1860s

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1860

Accession Number

1989/2.100

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:24:58

Secondary Keywords

descriptors

faces

figures

inorganic material

materials

materials by composition

objects we use

people and occupations

rock

rock by form

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Poet's (Conrad Aiken) Garden, New York City

Artist

André Kertész

Physical Description

A decapitated sculpture of a human head sits peacefully atop a stone pile. In the front of the photo stretches a stem bursting with floral blooms while flora and fauna seep out rom the cracks of the rocks in the foreground.

Artist Life Dates

1894-1985

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1950

Accession Number

2000/2.16

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:24:20

Secondary Keywords

biological components

buildings and the land

components

components and systems

components by specific context

descriptors

inorganic material

landscapes (environments)

materials

materials by composition

natural landscapes

objects we use

rock

rock by form

sculpture

sculpture by subject type

settlements and landscapes

the human body

upper body

vegetation and vegetation components

vegetation components

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty)

Artist

Jene Highstein

Physical Description

Heavily worked and reworked pencil drawing on large square of grid paper. Form is an ovoid shape with longitudinal and lateral lines, thinner than it is tall, fit into a rectangular box that represents the block of stone to be carved. At the bottom right of the sketched image, Highstein has noted the dimensions (7’ x 7’ x 2’) x 7. Seven blocks of granite at 2’ x 2’ x 7’ were meant to be stacked and carved into the proposed shape.

Artist Life Dates

(1942 - )

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1987

Accession Number

2008/2.232

Medium and Support

graphite on paper

Date Added/Updated

2012-11-25 18:13:26

Secondary Keywords

visual arts

abstraction

animal material

animal material by form or function

artistic concepts

associated concepts

concepts in the arts

descriptors

egg and egg components

forms of expression

inorganic material

international post-1945 styles and movements

materials

materials by composition

materials by origin

objects we use

people and culture

post-1945 fine arts styles and movements

rock

rock by form

styles and periods

styles and periods by region

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Tara

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India

Physical Description

Black schist carved in the relief of Green Tara, a guide and saviouress on the Buddhist path to enlightenment. She holds two lotuses, one open and one closed and makes the gesture of gift-giving with her palm facing outwards, towards the devotee.

Century

10th century

Object Creation Date

10th century

Accession Number

1981/2.156

Medium and Support

black schist

Secondary Keywords

asia (continent)

associated concepts

descriptors

design elements

geographic and political locations

inorganic material

materials

materials by composition

motifs

natural element motifs

people

people (agents)

people and culture

people by state or condition

religions and religious concepts

religious concepts

rock

rock by form

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

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