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Title

The Labors of Hercules: The Dragon of the Garden of the Hesperides (one of the s

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1550

Accession Number

1956/1.68

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

Primary Keywords

buildings

clubs (weapons)

dragon

dragons

fighting

hercules

house

lame

monsters

nudes

rocks

standing

tower

towers (building divisions)

towers (single built works)

trees

Title

Gas Tower Study #10, Vero Beach, Florida

Artist

David Bence

Physical Description

Two gas towers surrounded by a concrete wall.

Object Creation Date

2000

Accession Number

2013/1.236

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

Primary Keywords

towers (building divisions)

Title

Gas Tower Study #11, Vero Beach, Florida

Artist

David Bence

Physical Description

Top of a gas tower, highlighting the staircase.

Object Creation Date

2005

Accession Number

2013/1.237

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

Primary Keywords

towers (building divisions)

Title

Model of a four-story watchtower

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

model of a four story tower

each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges

a human figurine stands in front of each door

Century

1st century

Object Creation Date

1st century

Accession Number

1993/1.71.1

Medium and Support

red earthenware with green lead glaze

Primary Keywords

funerary art

towers

Title

Model of a four-story watchtower

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

part of the grave furnishing assemblage for the well-to-do family in Central Plains region of Han Dynasty China during the first century CE

Century

1st century

Object Creation Date

1st century

Accession Number

1993/1.71.2

Medium and Support

red earthenware with green lead glaze

Primary Keywords

funerary art

towers

Title

Model of a four-story watchtower

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

model of a four story tower

each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges

a human figurine stands in front of each door

Century

1st century

Object Creation Date

1st century

Accession Number

1993/1.71.4

Medium and Support

red earthenware with green lead glaze

Primary Keywords

funerary art

towers

Title

Model of a four-story watchtower

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Physical Description

model of a four story tower

each story has a movable door attached to the building through hinges

a human figurine stands in front of each door

Century

1st century

Object Creation Date

1st century

Accession Number

1993/1.71.3

Medium and Support

red earthenware with green lead glaze

Primary Keywords

funerary art

towers

Title

Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee from a Digambara Jain manuscript

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School

Physical Description

This painting is a rare depiction of the Jina’s first preaching. It is said that the speech of the Jina is like no other and that miracles occur upon hearing it. Here the Jina is depicted with four heads, representing the miraculous ability to see from all four directions at once. The golden-hued Jina and the monk who venerate a Jina are nude, identifying them as belonging to the Digambara (sky-clad) sect of Jainism.

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

1975/2.173

Medium and Support

ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Primary Keywords

deity

figures (representations)

nudes

towers (single built works)

trees

Title

Aqueduct of Nerone, Tivoli

Artist

Joseph Antoine David de Marseille

Physical Description

This drawing depicts a landscape with two figures against a tree in dark wash in the lower left foreground and a faintly washed mid-ground scene of a relief of a crowd of figures on an architectural element. An arch of an aqueduct and a faint castle tower somewhat in ruins appear in the background surrounded by lush foliage.

Artist Life Dates

1725-1789

Object Creation Date

18th century

Accession Number

2012/2.191

Medium and Support

pen and ink, black chalk and grey wash over graphite on laid paper, laid down

Primary Keywords

aqueducts

landscapes (representations)

towers (building divisions)

trees

Title

The Cluster

Artist

Arthur Osver

Artist Life Dates

born 1912

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1947

Accession Number

1950/1.175

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Primary Keywords

abstraction

factory

water towers

Title

Landscape with Tower and Distant Lake

Artist

William Payne

Physical Description

A watercolor primarily in greens, blues, black and grey depicting a landscape with rolling hills and a tower and lake in the distance. A family of weary travelers are positioned in the shaded left foreground. A herd of sheep and two donkeys rest in the sunlit fields in the mid-ground.

Artist Life Dates

(1760 - 1830)

Object Creation Date

late 18th century - early 19th century

Accession Number

2012/2.215

Medium and Support

watercolor on medium white wove paper

Primary Keywords

donkeys

lakes

landscapes (environments)

sheep

towers (single built works)

travelers

Title

Rimini with a View of the Tiberius Bridge

Artist

Samuel Prout

Physical Description

This small watercolor represents a view of a city on the banks of a river. A bridge in the middle ground connects the city, whose buildings run to the water's edge. A woman wearing a bright white shirt with a blue dress and a brilliant red scarf stands in the foreground. A boat covered by a red-and-white striped canopy, poled by a man in the bow, approaches the near shore.

Artist Life Dates

(1783 - 1852)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1824-1852

Accession Number

2009/1.511.1

Medium and Support

watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper

Primary Keywords

boats

italy (nation)

riverbanks

rivers

towers (building divisions)

watercolors

Title

Conway Castle

Artist

Alfred Rosling

Artist Life Dates

1802-1880's

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

19th century

Accession Number

1987/1.337

Medium and Support

albumen print on paper

Primary Keywords

castles

suspension bridges

towers (building divisions)

Title

Bounded on the West by the Land Under Water

Artist

Kay Sage

Physical Description

Four spare industrial structures rise at different angles into an empty landscape. On the viewer's right, a scaffolding rises from the lower corner and angles to the left. On the left, another scaffold structure runs from the bottom corner along the left edge. In the middle, a building-like structure rises from the bottom of the composition and leans into the visual space, resting on a long rectangular solid that is draped with a cloth.

Artist Life Dates

1898 - 1963

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1946

Accession Number

1963/2.1

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Primary Keywords

abstraction

industrial buildings

industrial complexes

industrial landscapes

landscapes

oil painting

scaffolds

surrealism

surrealist

tower

towers (single built works)

water

Title

Nostalgia (Boston)

Artist

Saitô Kiyoshi

Physical Description

The scene shows a group of buildings with white colored rooftops. Two buildings rise up in the foreground on the right and left. The right building has a red side with vertical lines hashed into it. The left building has two white triangles on its roof. In the middle ground is a smaller building with a green-domed tower rising up the middle of the composition. A small red figure stands on the white ground to the right of this tower. The background shows the large white rooftop of another building, with small dark rooflines of buildings visible behind it.

Artist Life Dates

(active 1907 - 1997)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1956

Accession Number

1958/2.36

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

Primary Keywords

boston (inhabited place)

church towers

cityscapes

snow

Title

New York Sky Some Clouds

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers. A water tower is visible over the top of a building on the left.

Artist Life Dates

1921-1999

Object Creation Date

circa 1980

Accession Number

2011/2.136

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Primary Keywords

cityscapes

oil painting

skyscrapers

water towers

Title

Petits Mobil Station, New Jersey

Artist

George A. Tice

Artist Life Dates

Born 1938

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1974

Accession Number

1976/2.13

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

Primary Keywords

buildings

car

gasoline

water towers

Title

Rotherhithe, one of the "Sixteen Etchings," or the "Thames Set"

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

Two men smoking long-stem pipes are seen sitting on a balcony. Behind them are visible the masts of ships along the bank, and further behind them in the distance a river sweeps towards the left. Buildings crowd the shore and boats are shown moored or in the river.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1860

Accession Number

1954/1.345

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint on laid Japan tissue

Primary Keywords

buildings

seated

sitting

water

water towers

watercraft

Title

Rotherhithe, one of the "Sixteen Etchings," or the "Thames Set"

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

Two men smoking long-stem pipes are seen sitting on a balcony. Behind them are visible the masts of ships along the bank, and further behind them in the distance a river sweeps towards the left. Buildings crowd the shore and boats are shown moored or in the river.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1860

Accession Number

1954/1.346

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint on paper

Primary Keywords

buildings

seated

water

water towers