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- Title
- Peach Blossom Spring
- Artist
- Chen Shaomei (aka Ch'en Shao-mei)
- Physical Description
- In this long narrative landscape, our eyes trace the journey of the fisherman, who may be standing in the distance on the left. His boat can be seen tucked behing a rock, and the mouth of a small cave. Pink petals of peach blossoms adorn the trees along to shore of a stream.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1909-1954
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1930-1954
- Accession Number
- 2006/2.21
- Medium and Support
- ink and light color on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.09566
- Secondary Keywords
- scale
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- deciduous trees
- landform components
- landforms and landform components
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in agriculture or natural resource occupations
- people in science-related occupations
- plants
- riverine bodies
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
- settlements
- settlements and landscapes
- settlements by form
- transportation vehicles
- trees
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- woody plants
- Title
- Dhow Sail, Lamu, Kenya, 1997
- Artist
- Lynn Davis
- Physical Description
- A large ship sail against a cloud-filled sky in Kenya. The angle from which the photograph was taken creates a triangular shape to the sail. From the top corner to the left edge of the photo is a rope, and on the right side of the sail is a small black figure protruding from behind the cloth, possibly the top of the mast to which the sail is connected.
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born 1944
- Object Creation Date
- 2005
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.102
- Medium and Support
- selenium-toned gelatin silver print on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.07728
- Secondary Keywords
- architectural elements
- associated concepts
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- image-making processes and techniques
- objects we use
- people and culture
- photographic processes
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- physical sciences concepts
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- sailing vessels
- sailing vessels by size
- scientific concepts
- structural elements
- structural elements and structural element components
- supporting and resisting elements
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- watercraft by method of propulsion
- watercraft by specific type
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- Title
- A Group of Eight Landscapes on Four Sheets
- Artist
- Franz Edmund Weirotter
- Physical Description
- TOP IMAGE: A river scene, with the river and scenery in the bottom 1/3 of image, and the skyfilling the top 2/3rds. A boat with two fisherman near shore in bottom left corner, and nother small pair of fishermen appear on bank in bottom center. To the right is a grove of trees, stretching from bottom right to top right. Distant mountains appear on the bottom left, as the river stretches into the background. An architectural structure - walls with perhaps dwellings on top - stretches along the riverbank on the left.
- BOTTOM IMAGE. A river appears in the bottom right corner and streches into the central background. A path tops the left-hand bank, on which a group of three travelers, facing the viewer, walk in the bottom left corner of image. Two carry walking sticks. In the center stands a medieval pilgrimage marker, near whose base is a traveler in large hat with walking stick. Trees line the river on both the right and left sides, and in the left grove is a partially hidden thatched house.
- Object Creation Date
- 1759
- Accession Number
- 2007/2.115
- Medium and Support
- engraving in black ink on white Arches laid paper
- relevance
- rank 2.06604
- Secondary Keywords
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- buildings and the land
- components of bodies of water
- hunting and commercial fishing vessels
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by activity
- religious figures
- residential structures
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- walkways
- watercraft
- watercraft by function
- watercraft by specific type
- worshippers
- Title
- Help Your Country Stop This - Enlist in the Navy
- Artist
- Sir Frank William Brangwyn
- Artist Life Dates
- 1867-1956
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.9A
- Medium and Support
- auto-lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.06147
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- armed conflicts
- armed forces
- army
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- european
- european styles and periods
- events
- fighting
- figures
- how we live
- human-powered watercraft
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- military
- modern and contemporary art
- modern british styles and movements
- modern british styles by reign
- modern european regional styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- objects
- objects we use
- organizations
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- rowed watercraft
- ships
- single level rowed watercraft
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- text-based art
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- war
- watercraft
- watercraft by method of propulsion
- watercraft by specific type
- waterscapes
- world wars
- Title
- Help Your Country Stop This - Enlist in the Navy
- Artist
- Sir Frank William Brangwyn
- Artist Life Dates
- 1867-1956
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1917
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.35.9B
- Medium and Support
- auto-lithograph on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.05066
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- armed conflicts
- armed forces
- army
- buildings
- declaratory and advertising artifacts
- european
- european styles and periods
- events
- fighting
- figures
- how we live
- human-powered watercraft
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- military
- modern and contemporary art
- modern british styles and movements
- modern british styles by reign
- modern european regional styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- objects
- objects we use
- organizations
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- rowed watercraft
- ships
- single level rowed watercraft
- soldiers
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- text-based art
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- war
- watercraft
- watercraft by method of propulsion
- watercraft by specific type
- waterscapes
- world wars
- Title
- Night Rain on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Physical Description
- In this landscape a misty, meandering river is depicted with two boathouses along its banks. Reeds and other foliage grow lush along the banks, partially obscuring the boathouse in the foreground. Accompanying text is in the upper register.
- Artist Life Dates
- (Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- last quarter of 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.127
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.04168
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- garden structures
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- paintings
- paintings by form
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- precipitation
- riverine bodies
- scientific concepts
- scroll paintings
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by location or context
- single built works by specific type
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- Title
- A Han Dynasty Envoy Navigating on a Tree-Raft
- Artist
- Yu Zhiding (Yü Chih-ting)
- Physical Description
- This is a dense but muted landscape painting. The lines are very well defined. The colors consit of muted greens and browns, with a bid of red in some places. There is a river flowing through the center of the painting, running down the landscape and toward the viewer. There is a figure sitting on a gnarled tree-raft towards the bottom left of the painting, with another figure looking upon the scene from the opposite bank of the river. There are ornate buildings present toward the top of the panting. The viewer can see a lone figure in an interior covered by stylized clouds.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1647 - circa 1705
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1696
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.30
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
- relevance
- rank 2.03723
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- animals and creatures
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- buildings and the land
- components of bodies of water
- displacement vessels
- dwellings
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- mammals
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- plants
- residential structures
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- surface craft
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- watercraft
- watercraft by displacement
- watercraft by operating environment
- watercraft by specific type
- woody plants
- Title
- Landscape in Ni Tsan Style
- Artist
- Hine Taizan
- Physical Description
- A lone pavilion sits among trees in the foreground. Birds flock nearby, and in the background are more trees and rocky formations. Calligraphic texts in in the upper right corner.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1813-1869
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1867
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.247
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink on silk
- relevance
- rank 2.03658
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- animals
- animals and creatures
- architecture
- asia
- asian
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- forms
- garden structures
- geography
- image-making processes and techniques
- inorganic material
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- locality
- making art
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- plants
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by location or context
- single built works by specific type
- text-based art
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- waterscapes
- woody plants
- writing (processes)
- Title
- Landscape with a Church beside a Lake
- Artist
- Crescenzio Onofrij
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts a serene landscape. A road running alongside a stream appears in the foreground among rocky outcrops, thick vegetation and bushy trees. The vista opens out in the middle ground and includes a lake at the right with a church standing on its shores at the left. A town is visible on the far shore of the lake and low mountains rise in the distance.
- Artist Life Dates
- ca 1632 - ca 1698
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1675-1689
- Accession Number
- 1958/2.53
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 2.03281
- Secondary Keywords
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- drawing and drawing techniques
- image-making processes and techniques
- lacustrine bodies
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by function
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- religious buildings
- religious structures
- riverine bodies
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- transportation spaces
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Edo Meisho: Ochanomizu
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- A snow scene of the canal. Snow covers the house roofs, the boat shelters, and the trees. Three travelers in blue robes are walking in the snow, two of them are carrying umbrellas.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1853
- Accession Number
- 1948/1.142
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.02459
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories carried
- dwellings
- earth sciences concepts
- events
- hydraulic structures
- hydraulic structures by form
- natural events
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- precipitation
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- relief prints
- residential structures
- scientific concepts
- seasons
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- Title
- The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Kichizo Edition): #3 Kawasaki
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- A group of figures with parasols and hats wait on shore for two approaching boats filled with passengers. Trees and a village are seen on the opposite shore. Writing in the upper left corner. Title in red box in upper right corner.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1850
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.314
- Medium and Support
- woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 2.00992
- Secondary Keywords
- layout features
- scale
- accessories worn on the head
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories carried
- costume accessories worn
- descriptors
- dwellings
- headgear
- illustrations
- illustrations by form
- images and ornament
- information form components
- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
- layout features
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- plants
- residential structures
- settlements
- settlements and landscapes
- settlements by form
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- woody plants
- Title
- Cottage with White Paling
- Artist
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Physical Description
- Etching is tipped on cream woven paper. Print is trimmed to the frame. Size: h 12 2/5cm x tw 15 4/5cm & bw 16cm.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1606-1669
- Object Creation Date
- 1648
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.396
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint on beige laid paper
- relevance
- rank 1.98316
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- dwellings
- engraving (printing process)
- factories
- factories by power source
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- houses
- houses by form
- image-making processes and techniques
- industrial buildings
- industrial structures
- intaglio printing processes
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- objects we use
- open spaces and site elements
- printing and printing processes and techniques
- printing processes
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- residential structures
- service and utility vehicles
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- site elements
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- Title
- Oiso Station, tora-ga-ame (Tora's Rain), Plate 9 from Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi (Fifty-three Stations of the Eastern Road)
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- A landscape of the bank by the river with mountains in the distance. There are trees, huts, and several tombstones in the foreground. Two figures are walking toward a hut.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1855
- Accession Number
- 1974/1.102
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper, ôban yoko-e size
- relevance
- rank 1.96209
- Secondary Keywords
- layout features
- upward
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- dwellings
- funerary structures
- houses
- houses by form
- illustrations
- illustrations by form
- images and ornament
- information form components
- inorganic material
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- layout features
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- plants
- residential structures
- sailing vessels
- sailing vessels by size
- sepulchral monuments
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- watercraft by method of propulsion
- watercraft by specific type
- woody plants
- Title
- The Happy Life of Fishermen
- Artist
- Qian Gong (Ch'ien Kung)
- Physical Description
- A group of fishermen and families sit in reeds, resting, playing, drinking, eating, and chatting. Birds fly in the backgrounf, and the reeds bend under the wind. At top center is calligraphic text.
- Artist Life Dates
- (active Suzhou, ca. 1573 - ca. 1620)
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1610
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.29
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on gold paper
- relevance
- rank 1.95777
- Secondary Keywords
- books
- books by internal form
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories carried
- descriptors
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by physical form
- information forms
- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in agriculture or natural resource occupations
- people in science-related occupations
- physical activities
- physical activities by location
- physical activities by specific context
- plants
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- water activities
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- woody plants
- Title
- Battle of the Genji and Heike Forces
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Physical Description
- This 6-fold screen is a depiction of the Battle of Genji and Heike. In samurai armor, the Heike forces approach by ship from the left, while Genji forces rush to the shore on horseback and on foot—drawing the viewer’s attention to the center of the screens, where their confrontation will finally take place. The Heike forces can be identified by the red banners on their ships, while the Genji clan carries white banners.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1573-1650
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.64
- Medium and Support
- 6-fold screen, ink and color on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.93052
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- armed conflicts
- associated concepts
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- earth sciences concepts
- events
- evergreens
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture
- furniture by form or function
- landscapes (environments)
- mammals
- marine bodies
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in military occupations
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- projectile weapons
- projectile weapons with nonexplosive propellant
- projectiles with nonexplosive propellant
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation vehicles
- trees
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
- Title
- Famous Views of the 60-odd Provinces: #9 The Tennô Festival at Tsushima in Owari Province
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- This piece depicts boats decorated with lanterns, the evening sky and festivities. The shore is lined with teahouses set up for the event. The title for the print is located in the upper right corner in a red box.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1853-1856
- Accession Number
- 1960/2.144
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.91963
- Secondary Keywords
- scale
- transfer method
- asian
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- east asian
- garden structures
- how we live
- japanese
- japanese printmaking styles
- japanese styles
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people and culture
- plants
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- relief prints
- religious buildings
- religious structures
- riverine bodies
- settlements
- settlements and landscapes
- settlements by form
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by location or context
- single built works by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- waterscapes
- Title
- Eight Views of Edo Suburbs: Fishing Boats Returning to Gyôtoku
- Artist
- Andô Hiroshige
- Physical Description
- The pyramid shaped hills in the background of this print are those of the boiling houses and salt piles of Gyôtoku’s salt industry. A ferry boat, or watashi-bune, carries passengers in the foreground of this picture. In this print a shipman steers using the large rudder located in the back of the boat.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1797-1858
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1835-1842
- Accession Number
- 1948/1.138
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.89101
- Secondary Keywords
- relation to water
- transfer method
- asian
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- early modern japanese periods
- east asian
- edo (japanese period)
- hunting and commercial fishing vessels
- japanese
- japanese periods
- japanese printmaking styles
- japanese styles
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by position
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical activities
- physical activities by location
- physical activities by specific context
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- relief prints
- riverine bodies
- settlements and landscapes
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- water activities
- watercraft
- watercraft by function
- watercraft by method of propulsion
- watercraft by specific type
- Title
- The Sea Monster
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer
- Physical Description
- Two figures are seen riding through the water in the foreground; the woman is nude save for an elaborate headdress, the man holds a tortoise shell as a shield and has an antler-like object on his head and has a serpent-like body which supports the woman. Behind is a minutely described landsape with walled town, castle, and along the opposite bank o the water, nude females swimming and a man running in alarm to the water's edge.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1471-1528
- Century
- Late 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1498
- Accession Number
- 1956/1.74
- Medium and Support
- engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 1.86815
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- animals and creatures
- buildings and the land
- combination inorganic/organic animal material
- combination inorganic/organic material
- descriptors
- fortifications
- image-making processes and techniques
- inorganic material
- intaglio prints
- legendary creatures
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects we use
- printing
- printing and printing processes and techniques
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- reptiles
- sailing vessels
- sailing vessels by size
- shell and shell material
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- watercraft
- watercraft by method of propulsion
- watercraft by specific type
- Title
- White Mountains in September, North Conway, New Hampshire
- Artist
- Sylvester Phelps Hodgdon
- Physical Description
- Landscape with trees in foreground, valley in middle ground dotted with minute figures of sheep and a farmer with a team of oxen pulling well-filled haywain. Mountains in distance with a snow-capped mountain in center background.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1830 - 1906
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1853
- Accession Number
- 1895.57
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 1.84990
- Secondary Keywords
- downward
- upward
- americas
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- design elements
- earth sciences concepts
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- geographic and political locations
- grass (plant material)
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- locality
- mammals
- materials
- materials by origin
- natural landscapes
- north & central america
- north and central america (continent)
- objects we use
- ornament areas
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by occupation
- people in agriculture
- people in agriculture or natural resource occupations
- people in science-related occupations
- physical sciences concepts
- plant material
- plants
- scientific concepts
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
- service and utility vehicles
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- united states
- united states (nation)
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Fishermen Returning in the Evening Snow
- Artist
- Jiang Song (Chiang Sung)
- Physical Description
- Swift, spontaneous brushwork is used to capture a winter landscape. Two fishermen, wearing wide-brimmed straw hats and thatched grass rain capes, work their way through the heavy snow as they cross a bridge, carrying nets on their shoulders.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1478 - after 1567)
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.139
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink on silk
- relevance
- rank 1.81632
- Secondary Keywords
- accessories worn on the head
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories worn
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- fishing vessels
- fishing vessels by function
- hats
- headgear
- hunting and commercial fishing vessels
- image-making processes and techniques
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- materials by function
- object genres
- object genres by form
- objects we use
- painting and painting techniques
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in agriculture or natural resource occupations
- people in science-related occupations
- physical sciences concepts
- precipitation
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- scientific concepts
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by function
- watercraft by specific type
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- Title
- Journey of the Soul to the Paradise of the Queen Mother of the West
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Limestone slab carved bas-relief with six registers. The lower register depicts a chariot procession above fish-inhabited waters. The central three registers depict figures carrying out funerary rites. The top register shows a winged creature with a human face flanked by two writhing dragons and other animals, including two rabbits and a nine-tailed fox.
- Century
- 2nd century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.1
- Medium and Support
- carved limestone slab
- relevance
- rank 1.79164
- Secondary Keywords
- agricultural equipment
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- ceremonial objects
- death
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- equipment
- equipment by process
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- funerary structures
- great lake and central woodland native american styles
- how we live
- inorganic material
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- legendary creatures
- mammals
- materials
- materials by composition
- native american
- native north american styles
- object genres
- object genres by function
- object-making processes and techniques
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- religious structures
- rites of passage
- scientific concepts
- sculpture techniques
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the americas
- tools and equipment
- transportation vehicles
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- One of a pair of six-fold screens
- Artist
- Attributed Kanô Tan'yû
- Physical Description
- These panels represent six of the twelve months. The panels each have calligraphy and a red seal in one corner. In each panel there is a bird and a type of plant, which are suggestive of particular months. On the top left panel there is bamboo, the bow of the boat with a small lamp attached to it, and a type of water fowl. In the bottom middle panel is a blooming sakura tree and a pheasant. In the bottom left panel is blue and white wisteria ans small sparrows. In the bottom right panel there is a willow slowly coming back to life after winter over a thatched building.
- Artist Life Dates
- (Kyoto, 1604 - 1674, Edo)
- Century
- 19th century?
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1965/1.179
- Medium and Support
- ink and light color on paper, one of pair of Six fold screens
- relevance
- rank 1.79084
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- animals and creatures
- asian
- associated concepts
- birds
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- deciduous trees
- descriptors
- dwellings
- earth sciences concepts
- east asian
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture
- furniture by form or function
- grass (plant material)
- herbaceous plants
- japanese
- japanese styles
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by origin
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- plant material
- plants
- residential structures
- riverine bodies
- scientific concepts
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- shrubs
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- transportation vehicles
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- woody plants
- Title
- The Famous Picnic at Val Kill
- Artist
- Ann Murfee Allen
- Physical Description
- Primitive painting depicting three sailboats in the foreground, and figures sitting around tables and standing on a lawn in the middle ground, with two houses in the background.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1923 - 1995
- Century
- late 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1975
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.178
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 1.77303
- Secondary Keywords
- american regions
- art genres
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- dwellings
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture
- furniture by form or function
- how we live
- identifying artifacts
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by function
- information forms
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- north american
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- plants
- political and social issues
- residential structures
- sailing vessels by size
- seating furniture
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- single seating furniture
- standing
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- support furniture
- tables (support furniture)
- tables by function
- the americas
- the natural world
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- watercraft
- watercraft by method of propulsion
- watercraft by specific type
- waterscapes
- woody plants
- Title
- The Attack on an Emigrant Train
- Artist
- Charles Ferdinand Wimar
- Physical Description
- The painting depicts a group of American settlers attempting to defend themselves against attack by a band of Native Americans. A covered wagon pulled by two horses is at the center of the composition; at left, two Native Americans attack the wagon with war clubs and tomahawks; a figure on the lead horse points a pistol directly at the head of one of his attackers, while a figure at the rear of the wagon shoots another attacker. At right other warriors on horseback ride past the train shooting arrows and wielding tomahawks.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1828-1862
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1856
- Accession Number
- 1895.80
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 1.70605
- Secondary Keywords
- american regions
- americas
- animals
- animals and creatures
- armed conflicts
- associated concepts
- atmospheric effects
- buildings and the land
- cargo vehicles
- cargo vehicles by form
- cutting equipment
- cutting tools
- earth sciences concepts
- edged weapons
- equipment
- equipment by process
- events
- fights
- firearms
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- grassland
- how we live
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- landscapes (environments)
- locality
- long guns
- mammals
- natural landscapes
- north & central america
- north american
- objects
- objects we use
- passenger vehicles
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by activity
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- physical sciences concepts
- plant communities
- projectile launchers with nonexplosive propellant
- projectile weapons
- projectile weapons with explosive propellant
- projectile weapons with nonexplosive propellant
- projectiles with nonexplosive propellant
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- small arms by form
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the americas
- the natural world
- tools and equipment
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- war
- weaponry
- weapons
- weapons and ammunition
- Title
- Do yu Get it
- Artist
- Martin Johnson
- Physical Description
- 7-sided frame made of reclaimed wood moulding and slats nailed together and backed with strips of green felt, possibly from a pool table. Gold wire traces the wood frame, and is accented with a fuzz ball or googly eye at each corner. A toy car is placed on the gold wire “track” at bottom center; car racing flag stickers attached to the frame in a couple places. Three pieces of thread are strung horizontally across the frame, a “spider web” attached to top two lines with puffy paint. A wood (?) cutout of a smiling joker mouth hung from web by wire.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1951 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1996
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.235
- Medium and Support
- mixed media consruction, paint, wood, wire, toy car
- relevance
- rank 1.64953
- Secondary Keywords
- abstract expressionist
- animals and creatures
- applied decoration
- arthropods
- associated concepts
- biological components
- biological concepts
- buildings and the land
- built complexes and districts
- complexes
- complexes by function
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- design elements
- faces
- found object sculpture
- freewheeled vehicles
- freewheeled vehicles by form or function
- heads
- image-making processes and techniques
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- land vehicles
- land vehicles by form
- leisure and competition vehicles
- life
- life stages
- metalwork
- object genres
- object genres by material
- object-making processes and techniques
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in the arts
- people in the arts and related occupations
- people in the humanities
- people in the performing arts
- performing artists
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- recreation areas
- recreational artifacts
- recreational artifacts for noncompetitive activities
- scientific concepts
- sculpture
- sculpture by material
- sculpture techniques
- sports complexes
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the human body
- transportation vehicles
- upper body
- vehicles
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique