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A Visit to the Gallery; Pier Celestino Gilardi

Title: A Visit to the Gallery
Artist: Pier Celestino Gilardi
Physical Description: Two women on a settee dressed in elegant 19th century attire, one holding a fan and the other a parasol, while another richly clad woman leans in close beside them, in a lavishly decorated interior setting with ornately carved gilded walls, a large mirror above the settee, inlaid marble floor, and large vases to either side of the settee. In the center of the room is a sculpture of the Medici Venus on a pedestal with her back to the viewer, her reflection evident in the mirror. Between the base of the sculpture and the viewer is an elaborately carved gilt stool covered with rich red fabric. Beside the sculpture, another woman holding a book walks towards the cluster of women.
Artist Life Dates: 1837 - 1905
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1877
Accession Number: 1895.94
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Secondary Keywords: allegory and literature; building divisions; candles and candleholders; components; components and systems; components by specific context; descriptors; display rooms and spaces; figures; furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; genres; household objects; inorganic material; lighting devices; lighting devices by form; materials; materials by composition; mythology; objects; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; reflections; rock; rock by form; roman; rooms and spaces; rooms and spaces by function; sculpture by subject type; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha seated in dhyana mudra, and flanked by two stupas; Artist Unknown, China

Title: A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha seated in dhyana mudra, and flanked by two stupas
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Physical Description: A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.
Century: 7th-9th century
Object Creation Date: 618-907
Accession Number: 1964/2.23
Medium and Support: terracotta, molded
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; attributes and properties; attributes and properties by specific type; buildings and the land; descriptors; design elements; form attributes; motifs; object genres; object genres by form; object-making processes and techniques; objects we use; people and culture; plant-derived motifs; processes and techniques; processes and techniques by specific type; relief; religions; religions and religious concepts; religious structures; sculpture techniques; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type; size (extent); size by specific type; visual works; visual works by subject type

Ancestral Shrine Figure (Female); African, Nigeria, Ibo

Title: Ancestral Shrine Figure (Female)
Artist: African, Nigeria, Ibo
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1940
Accession Number: 1981/2.142
Medium and Support: carved inoko wood and kaolin
Secondary Keywords: buildings and the land; descriptors; figures; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by family relationship; religious structures; sculpture; sculpture by technique; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Ancestral Shrine Figure (Male); African, Nigeria, Ibo

Title: Ancestral Shrine Figure (Male)
Artist: African, Nigeria, Ibo
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1940
Accession Number: 1985/1.87
Medium and Support: carved wood
Secondary Keywords: figures; figures (representations); objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by family relationship; people by gender; physical activities; physical activities by general context; sculpture; sculpture by function; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Angry Neptune; Michele Oka Doner

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Title: Angry Neptune
Artist: Michele Oka Doner
Physical Description: Large bronze sculpture resembling a headless human figure. The surface texture is very rough with deep voids and coarse patches of metal. The brown patina has a whitish tinge.
Artist Life Dates: Born 1945
Object Creation Date: 2008
Accession Number: 2009/1.466
Medium and Support: cast bronze
Secondary Keywords: copper alloy; copper and copper alloy; descriptors; figures; inorganic material; materials; materials by composition; metal; metal and metal products; metal by composition or origin; nonferrous metal; objects we use; people and occupations; sculpture; sculpture by location or context; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Apostle; Artist Unknown, Belgium

Title: Apostle
Artist: Artist Unknown, Belgium
Physical Description: This marble statue depicts a standing male figure, who holds a closed book in his left hand and makes what appears to be a gesture indicating speech with his right. The curls of his flowing beard and long hair are echoed in the gentle curving folds and undulating edges of his long robe and mantle. He turns his head downward and to his left
Century: 14th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1350-1360
Accession Number: 1957/2.3
Medium and Support: marble with gilding
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; card, table and board game elements; disciples; functions; functions (activities); functions by specific context; game pieces; information artifacts; information artifacts by physical form; information forms; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by activity; recreational artifacts; recreational artifacts for competitive activities; religions; religions and religious concepts; religious functions; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Balzac - The Open Sky, Meudon, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 34/35, April-July, 1911"; Edward Jean Steichen

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Title: Balzac - The Open Sky, Meudon, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 34/35, April-July, 1911"
Artist: Edward Jean Steichen
Physical Description: An albumen print black and white image of a statue of the French novelist Balzac against an open sky. The statue is off-center in the photo and angled so it is facing to the right of the image. A faint light illuminates the backside of the statue and the empty space behind it.
Artist Life Dates: (Luxembourg, 1879 - 1973)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: July 1911
Accession Number: 2012/1.214
Medium and Support: photogravure on paper
Secondary Keywords: color; associated concepts; earth sciences concepts; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; photographic prints; photographic prints by process; photographs; photographs by form; physical sciences concepts; positives; scientific concepts; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Black Americans (Girl with Doll); Bruce Davidson

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Title: Black Americans (Girl with Doll)
Artist: Bruce Davidson
Physical Description: Girl seated on metal chair playing with doll.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1933
Object Creation Date: 1962; printed 1999
Accession Number: 2013/2.114
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
Secondary Keywords: building divisions; components; components and systems; components by specific context; exterior covered spaces; figurines; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by family relationship; rooms and spaces; rooms and spaces by location or context; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, attended by Indra; Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)

Title: Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, attended by Indra
Artist: Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Physical Description: A fragment of a stucco relief sculpture.
Century: 2nd-4th century
Object Creation Date: 100-399
Accession Number: 1961/2.83
Medium and Support: stucco relief with traces of polychromy
Secondary Keywords: asian; associated concepts; buildings and the land; descriptors; figures (representations); indian; indian dynastic styles and periods; indian styles and periods; kushan; object-making processes and techniques; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by activity; processes and techniques; processes and techniques by specific type; religions; religions and religious concepts; religious structures; sculpture techniques; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type; south asian; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; visual works; visual works by subject type

Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, flanked by two donor figures and with a mandorla of the seven Buddhas of the past (fragment of a stele); Artist Unknown, China

Title: Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, flanked by two donor figures and with a mandorla of the seven Buddhas of the past (fragment of a stele)
Artist: Artist Unknown, China
Century: 6th century
Object Creation Date: circa 500-550
Accession Number: 1964/1.89
Medium and Support: stone
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; descriptors; figures (representations); object-making processes and techniques; objects we use; people and culture; processes and techniques; processes and techniques by specific type; relief; religions; religions and religious concepts; sculpture techniques; visual works; visual works by subject type

Bust of a Satyr; Massimiliano Soldani Benzi

Title: Bust of a Satyr
Artist: Massimiliano Soldani Benzi
Physical Description: This small bust-length figure represents a mustached satyr turning his head toward his left. He wears an animal skin tied at his right shoulder over his bare chest. The liquid character of the cast bronze admirably captures the rippling muscles of the satyr's chest and the flowing curls of his hair and the animal pelt.
Artist Life Dates: 1656-1740
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1695
Accession Number: 1970/1.193
Medium and Support: bronze on wood base
Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; associated concepts; concepts in the arts; genres in the arts; legendary creatures; literary, oral and motion picture genres; mammals; objects we use; people and culture; portraits; sculpture; sculpture by material; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Chief’s Caryatid Stool (citwamo ka kaponya); Artist Unknown, African, Chokwe Peoples Angola

Title: Chief’s Caryatid Stool (citwamo ka kaponya)
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Chokwe Peoples Angola
Physical Description: This hour-glass shaped stool is supported by two caryatid figures who sit in a pose of lamentation—crouched with head in hands. Scarified patterned abstracted tears spill from their lower eyelids. Brass studs adorn the perimeter of the stool’s seat, base, and figures. Both figures wear strings of black, red and white beads around their necks.
Century: Late 19th century
Object Creation Date: 2nd half of 19th century
Accession Number: 2005/1.204
Medium and Support: wood, glass beads, and brass tacks
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; descriptors; metalwork; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people and culture; political concepts; sculpture; sculpture by material; sculpture by technique; social science concepts; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Conversation under the Statue, Luxembourg Gardens; James McNeill Whistler

Title: Conversation under the Statue, Luxembourg Gardens
Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Physical Description: In the lower left corner, two women are seen seated out of doors conversing in a park-like setting. In the middle distance is a large sculpture on a raised pedestal. Grouped around the sculpture are other small gatherings of people in conversation. Behind the figures and sculpture is the loose indication of trees.
Artist Life Dates: 1834-1903
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1893
Accession Number: 1954/1.438
Medium and Support: transfer lithograph with stumping on laid paper
Secondary Keywords: armed forces; buildings and the land; europe; europe (continent); france; france (nation); furnishings; furnishings by form or function; furniture; furniture by form or function; geographic and political locations; locality; military; objects; objects we use; open spaces; open spaces and site elements; open spaces by form; organizations; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; physical activities; physical activities by general context; religious figures; saint; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; seating furniture; single seating furniture; ville de paris, dèpartement de (department); visual works; visual works by medium or technique; œle-de-france (region)

Crown for Vairocana Buddha (J. Dainichi Nyorai); Artist Unknown, Japan

Title: Crown for Vairocana Buddha (J. Dainichi Nyorai)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 2003/2.59.2
Medium and Support: openwork metal and semi-precious stones
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; components; components and systems; components by specific context; costume components; objects we use; people and culture; religions; religions and religious concepts; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Daughters of Mr. Thaxton, near Mechanicsburg, OH; Ben Shahn

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Title: Daughters of Mr. Thaxton, near Mechanicsburg, OH
Artist: Ben Shahn
Physical Description: Two girls in floral dresses stand on a wooden front porch holding matching dolls. Both girls stare inquisitively to their right. Behind them sits a rocking chair and windowsill with lace curtains and a flower box.
Artist Life Dates: 1898-1969
Object Creation Date: 1938; printed 1995
Accession Number: 2013/2.174
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
Secondary Keywords: figural toys; figurines; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by age group; people by family relationship; people by gender; recreational artifacts; recreational artifacts for noncompetitive activities; recreational dolls; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; toys (recreational artifacts); toys by form; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; youth

Doriforo di Policleto; James Anderson; Attributed to

Title: Doriforo di Policleto
Artist: James Anderson
Artist Life Dates: 1813-1877
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1880
Accession Number: 1980/1.199
Medium and Support: albumen print on paper
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; edged weapons; figures; figures (representations); inorganic material; materials; materials by composition; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; physical activities; physical activities by general context; rock; rock by form; sculpture by subject type; staff weapons; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type; weapons; weapons and ammunition

Equestrian figure; Artist Unknown, India

Title: Equestrian figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.259
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; mammals; objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Equestrian Figure; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Equestrian Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.31
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; art genres; artistic concepts; associated concepts; concepts in the arts; mammals; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by activity; people by gender; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Equestrian Statuette of Marcus Aurelius; Anonymous Italian

Title: Equestrian Statuette of Marcus Aurelius
Artist: Anonymous Italian
Accession Number: 1895.10
Medium and Support: bronze on marble base
Secondary Keywords: ancient italian periods; ancient italian styles and periods; animals; animals and creatures; early western world; mammals; mediterranean; monarchs; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by occupation; people in government and administration; rulers (people); sculpture by material; sculpture by subject type; statues; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the natural world; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Female Ancestor Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon

Title: Female Ancestor Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Mali, Dogon
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1971
Accession Number: 1971/2.24
Medium and Support: carved wood, patination, blood, millet, egg shell
Secondary Keywords: figures; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by family relationship; people by gender; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Female Fertility Doll; Artist Unknown, African, South Africa, Shambala

Title: Female Fertility Doll
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, South Africa, Shambala
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1983
Accession Number: 1983/2.194
Medium and Support: wood
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; figures; figures (representations); figurines; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; toys; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Fetish Idol; Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Ekoi

Title: Fetish Idol
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Ekoi
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1971
Accession Number: 1971/1.187
Medium and Support: carved wood, antelope skin and vegetable pigment
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; religion; religions; religious visual works; sculpture; sculpture by function; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by function; visual works by medium or technique

Firenze - Palazzo Pitti, La Fontana; Fratelli Alinari

Title: Firenze - Palazzo Pitti, La Fontana
Artist: Fratelli Alinari
Artist Life Dates: (active 1854 - 1920)
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1832-1865
Accession Number: 1982/1.229
Medium and Support: albumen print on paper
Secondary Keywords: architecture; buildings and the land; descriptors; europe (continent); geographic and political locations; hydraulic structures; hydraulic structures by function; inorganic material; italy (nation); landscapes (environments); materials; materials by composition; objects; objects we use; photographic prints; photographic prints by process; photographs; photographs by form; plants; positives; rock; rock by form; sculpture by subject type; settlements and landscapes; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type; the natural world; tuscany (region); visual works; visual works by medium or technique; water distribution structures

Flora; Richard James Wyatt

Title: Flora
Artist: Richard James Wyatt
Physical Description: White marble sculpture of female figure, partially nude with a cloth draped loosely around her waist and over her left forearm. She holds a cluster of flowers in her left hand, and a single bloom in her right; a basket of flowers located on base to left and slightly behind figure.
Artist Life Dates: 1795 - 1850
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1850
Accession Number: 1931.17
Medium and Support: marble
Secondary Keywords: artistic concepts; artistic devices; associated concepts; buildings and the land; concepts in the arts; european; european styles and periods; figures; figures (representations); genres; genres in the arts; herbaceous plants; landscapes (environments); literary, oral and motion picture genres; modern european styles and movements; natural landscapes; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; plants; sculpture by subject type; settlements and landscapes; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; symbolism; the natural world; vegetation and vegetation components; vegetation components; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type; woody plants

Girl with French Loaves; Chet LaMore

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Title: Girl with French Loaves
Artist: Chet LaMore
Physical Description: Highly abstracted figure with oval body, short straight legs, and a large mushroom shaped head with a crude, wide-mouthed face. Between the body and head are two horizontal bars that are slightly longer than the width of the head. The sculpture is quite flat, and the bronze has a molten look.
Artist Life Dates: 1908-1980
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1959
Accession Number: 1981/2.111
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Keywords: copper alloy; copper and copper alloy; descriptors; european; european styles and periods; food; inorganic material; materials; materials by composition; materials by function; metal; metal and metal products; metal by composition or origin; modern and contemporary art; modern european fine arts styles and movements; modern european styles and movements; movement; nonferrous metal; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; sculpture; sculpture by material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Goldweight in the shape of a crocodile; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title: Goldweight in the shape of a crocodile
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description: Goldweight in the shape of a crocodile.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1985
Accession Number: 1997/1.508
Medium and Support: brass
Secondary Keywords: africa (continent); animals and creatures; geographic and political locations; goldweights; objects we use; reptiles; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Goldweight in the shape of a human figure; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title: Goldweight in the shape of a human figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description: Goldweight in the shape of a human figure, kneeling with buttocks on the heels and the hands at the side of the head, wearing elaborate headgear. Evidence of calcification.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1985
Accession Number: 1997/1.453
Medium and Support: brass
Secondary Keywords: africa (continent); geographic and political locations; goldweights; objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Goldweight in the shape of a man; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title: Goldweight in the shape of a man
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description: Goldweight in the shape of a man with a large head, tilted slightly backwards, on a thick, heavy neck, and topped by hair or headgear in the shape of a ball; the face has protruding eyes and nose, and the mouth holds a snake-like animal above a small beard (goatee). The figure is wearing a loincloth and holds a short stick under the left arm as well as two small jars in the hands.; Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1985
Accession Number: 1985/2.42
Medium and Support: brass
Secondary Keywords: africa (continent); geographic and political locations; goldweights; human males; man; objects; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Goldweight in the shape of a man hoeing; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title: Goldweight in the shape of a man hoeing
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description: Goldweight in the shape of a man, wearing a loin cloth and wielding a hoe against a large, oval object, sitting on a flat, square base.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1970
Accession Number: 1986/2.128
Medium and Support: brass
Secondary Keywords: africa (continent); geographic and political locations; goldweights; objects; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Goldweight in the shape of a snake; Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire

Title: Goldweight in the shape of a snake
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Akan-Speaking Peoples, Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire
Physical Description: Goldweight in the shape of a coiling snake.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1985
Accession Number: 1997/1.504
Medium and Support: brass
Secondary Keywords: africa (continent); animals and creatures; geographic and political locations; goldweights; objects we use; reptiles; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Half-figure Fetish; African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa

Title: Half-figure Fetish
Artist: African, Congo (Zaire), Tabwa
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1900-1920
Accession Number: 1982/1.263
Medium and Support: wood
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; figures; figures (representations); object genres; object genres by function; objects we use; people and culture; people and occupations; physical activities; physical activities by general context; sculpture; sculpture by function; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Head; Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan

Title: Head
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
Century: late 19th - early 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1890-1920
Accession Number: 2000/2.105
Medium and Support: terracotta
Secondary Keywords: biological components; components; components and systems; components by specific context; figures (representations); objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by material; the human body; upper body; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Head; Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan

Title: Head
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
Accession Number: 2003/2.50
Medium and Support: terracotta
Secondary Keywords: biological components; components; components and systems; components by specific context; figures (representations); objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by material; the human body; upper body; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Head; Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan

Title: Head
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
Accession Number: 2003/2.51
Medium and Support: terracotta
Secondary Keywords: biological components; components; components and systems; components by specific context; objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by material; the human body; upper body; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Head; Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan

Title: Head
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Akan
Accession Number: 2003/2.52
Medium and Support: terracotta
Secondary Keywords: objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by material; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Head; Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Ashanti

Title: Head
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Ghana, Ashanti
Century: 18th - 19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 2000/2.117
Medium and Support: terracotta
Secondary Keywords: african; african styles by region; akan; biological components; components; components and systems; components by specific context; objects we use; people and culture; sculpture; sculpture by material; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; the human body; upper body; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type; west african styles; western guinea coast styles

Hercules; James Anderson; Attributed to

Title: Hercules
Artist: James Anderson
Artist Life Dates: 1813-1877
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1880
Accession Number: 1980/1.198
Medium and Support: albumen print on paper
Secondary Keywords: allegory and literature; descriptors; figures; figures (representations); iconography; inorganic material; materials; materials by composition; mythology; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by state or condition; rock; rock by form; sculpture by subject type; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Human Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji

Title: Human Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Cameroon, Namji
Physical Description: Carved wooden figure of a human form. String atatched to the head to represent hair.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.351
Medium and Support: carved wood, string and human hair
Secondary Keywords: visual arts; artistic concepts; associated concepts; concepts in the arts; figurines; forms of expression; healing; objects we use; people and culture; people and occupations; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Ibeji Twin Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba

Title: Ibeji Twin Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1988
Accession Number: 1988/1.160
Medium and Support: carved wood, glass and nutshell beads, twine, pigment and nail
Secondary Keywords: objects we use; people and culture; physical activities; physical activities by general context; sculpture; sculpture by technique; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Indian Terracottas; Artist Unknown, India

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Title: Indian Terracottas
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Physical Description: A terracotta bust of a person. They are carrying an object over one shoulder.
Object Creation Date: n. d.
Accession Number: 2009/2.140
Medium and Support: terracotta
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by material; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Indian Terracottas; Artist Unknown, India

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Title: Indian Terracottas
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Physical Description: Terracotta fragment of two figures carved on one side of the peice in raised relief. One figure has head and shoulders visible, the second figure has only the head visible.
Object Creation Date: n. d.
Accession Number: 2009/2.161
Medium and Support: terracotta
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; object genres; object genres by form; object genres by material; objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by material; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Interior of a Pompeiian Home with Figures (The Impluvium); Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Title: Interior of a Pompeiian Home with Figures (The Impluvium)
Artist: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Physical Description: An ink drawing in shades of gray with very exact detailing of objects and architectural elements in the scene. It shows the interior of a Roman house with sunlight streaming into an open courtyard with a fountain. The stone fountain has a square basin supported by a pedestal and a standing nude sculpture above it. One wall of the courtyard is decorated with floral designs and two figural scenes. A small bush is growing in a dirt area of the floor and there are two large vessels against the wall. Two figures are standing in a colonnade to the left of the courtyard. One is a woman dressed in a toga who is looking at a man dressed in a short sleeved tunic. The decorations of the floor, walls and ceiling depict ancient classical designs such as ascanthus leaves, meander and scroll patterns and the roof tiles have floral plume decorations and lion's head spouts.
Artist Life Dates: 1814-1879
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1873
Accession Number: 1976/2.20
Medium and Support: ink and wash over graphite on cream wove paper
Secondary Keywords: architecture; building divisions; buildings and the land; components; components and systems; components by specific context; containers; containers by form; descriptors; dwellings; figures; genres; landscapes (environments); natural landscapes; object genres; objects; objects we use; people and culture; people and occupations; physical activities; physical activities by general context; residential structures; rooms and spaces; rooms and spaces by location or context; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; settlements and landscapes; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type; the natural world; vegetation and vegetation components; vegetation components; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Kneeling Female Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Burkina Faso, Lobi

Title: Kneeling Female Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Burkina Faso, Lobi
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1950
Accession Number: 1982/1.276
Medium and Support: carved and painted wood
Secondary Keywords: african; african styles by region; descriptors; gur-speaking peoples styles; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; physical activities; physical activities by general context; sculpture; sculpture by technique; styles and periods; styles and periods by region; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type; west african styles; western sudanese styles

La Villa Madama; Jean-François Janinet; After Hubert Robert

Title: La Villa Madama
Artist: Jean-François Janinet
Physical Description: This etching, in a pale blue, brown and gray color scheme, depicts an outdoor scene with a large Roman style building and several human figures in the foreground. One giant wall, with two large arches, with semi-circular apses behind, crosses the middle section of the composition from left to right. It intersects a massive building that has a series of vaulted chambers. Both structures have crumbling stonework and overgrown vegetation. There are several groups of women in the foreground on both sides of a river. Some are in the water washing laundry and some are standing with wash hanging on lines. There is a small dog on the shore.
Artist Life Dates: (active 1752 - 1814, )
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1778
Accession Number: 1973/1.737
Medium and Support: etching and lavis-manner engraving printed in color on paper
Secondary Keywords: animals; animals and creatures; arches and arch components; architectural elements; architecture; bridges by form; buildings and the land; commercial buildings; components; components and systems; components by specific context; landscapes (environments); laundry; mammals; natural landscapes; objects; objects we use; people and occupations; plants; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; service industry buildings; settlements and landscapes; single built works; single built works by function; single built works by specific type; spanning and projecting structural elements; structural elements; structural elements and structural element components; the natural world; transportation structures; transportation structures by form; vegetation and vegetation components; vegetation components; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; woody plants

Male Figure (possibly mukuya figure repurposed as nkisi); Artist Unknown, African, Beembe Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo

Title: Male Figure (possibly mukuya figure repurposed as nkisi)
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Beembe Peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description: Wood-carved, standing figure with knees slightly flexed, prominent gentalia, naturalistic face, pointed beard and eyes inset with a white material, probably small ceramic fragments. The feet are missing. It wears a metal ring around its neck, and a string with metal fragments, glass beads and a small metal bell is attached across its chest, from arm to arm. A vertical crack on the front right side of the figure is filled with a gauzy material.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1870
Accession Number: 2005/1.189
Medium and Support: wood, beads, metal, ceramic fragments
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; fetish figures; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by family relationship; religions and religious concepts; religious concepts; sculpture; sculpture by function; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Male Ibeji Figure; Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba

Title: Male Ibeji Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Nigeria, Yoruba
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1900-1978
Accession Number: 1978/2.15
Medium and Support: carved wood and pigment
Secondary Keywords: descriptors; object genres; object genres by material; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people and occupations; people by gender; sculpture; sculpture by technique; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Male Spirit Spouse Figure (Blolo Bian); Artist Unknown, African, Baule Peoples Côte D'Ivoire

Title: Male Spirit Spouse Figure (Blolo Bian)
Artist: Artist Unknown, African, Baule Peoples Côte D'Ivoire
Physical Description: Male figured seated on high-backed stool with hands resting on abdomen; symmetrical scarification patterns on cheeks and temples, also down center of forehead and at base of the nose. Coiffure is high crested and segmented. Figure wears sandals and necklace or amulet around neck. Figure has sheen to patina, pigmented deep brown in contrast to stool. Figure has bore hole in back between buttocks.
Century: Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date: 1920-1960
Accession Number: 1971/2.32
Medium and Support: wood, pigment
Secondary Keywords: analytical functions; associated concepts; figures (representations); functions; functions (activities); functions by general context; objects we use; people and culture; religions and religious concepts; religious concepts; sculpture; sculpture by material; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Michigan Worker; George Vargas

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Title: Michigan Worker
Artist: George Vargas
Physical Description: Mixed media assemblage consisting of goggles, rusted sheets and pieces of metal, a padlock and two rusted bells hanging from a chain mounted on a wooden board with screws.
Artist Life Dates: b. 1948
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1985
Accession Number: 2004/1.153
Medium and Support: goggles, metal, hanging bells mounted on wood
Secondary Keywords: biological components; components; components and systems; components by specific context; found object sculpture; groups of people; heads; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; sculpture; sculpture by material; social classes; social classes by specific type; social groups; the human body; upper body; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

Model of goat; Artist Unknown, Japan

Title: Model of goat
Artist: Artist Unknown, Japan
Century: 19th century?
Object Creation Date: 19th century (?)
Accession Number: 1972/2.101
Medium and Support: bronze
Secondary Keywords: animals and creatures; mammals; objects we use; sculpture; sculpture by subject type; statues; visual works; visual works by medium or technique

Nail figure (nkisi nkondi); Artist Unknown, Vili Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Title: Nail figure (nkisi nkondi)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Vili Peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Physical Description: Wood-carved, standing male figure 40 inches in height. Its shoulders and torso are impaled with iron blades, nails and fragments. The torso is long, arms at side are bent at elbow and hands rest on lower abdomen. The right wrist wears a bracelet with attachments. The legs are truncated, with twisted metal anklet on right foot. The face is naturalistic, the mouth slightly open, the nose long and narrow with slightly flared nostrils. Eyes are almost shaped, may have had inlay that is now gone. The top of the head shows a tiered, "layer cake like" coiffure. The figure has a long and deep crack down the entire length of its left side, from top of the head to the left ankle.
Century: Late 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1850
Accession Number: 2005/1.192
Medium and Support: wood, iron nails, blades and fragments, fiber cord
Secondary Keywords: associated concepts; components; components and systems; components by specific context; descriptors; events; fetish figures; object genres; object genres by form; objects we use; people and culture; religions and religious concepts; religious concepts; sculpture; sculpture by function; tool and equipment components; visual works; visual works by medium or technique; visual works by subject type

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