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Title
Leaping Stag
Artist
Artist Unknown
Century
Late 19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1850-1899
Accession Number
2002/1.181
Medium and Support
steel pen drawing with black and brown ink on heavy cream wove paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
From Time to Time
Artist
Lisa Bradley
Physical Description
Large abstract painting in a vertical format painted in tones of blue, green and purple. There is sweeping brushwork, and manipulation of the paint surface creating gouge lines and globs of paint.
Object Creation Date
1980
Accession Number
2009/2.17
Medium and Support
oil on linen
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
LAX (Lounge Height Armshell X Base) Chair
Artist
Charles Ormond Eames Jr.
Physical Description
Pale, yellowed plastic armchair, consisting of a single "shell" of compound curves, slightly tilted back on a four-legged metal base.
Artist Life Dates
1907-1978
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
designed 1948; produced 1950
Accession Number
2012/1.292
Medium and Support
fiberglass resin, rubber shock mounts, metal rods, and metal glides
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Progress of Beauty 3
Artist
Mark Kostabi
Physical Description
Line drawing in felt tip marker on ivory ~ 10x13” paper with shading. Woman’s arm and dress and the cash register are partially filled in with black, as well as a pane of the stained glass window that she holds. The wall, pitcher, parts of the woman’s head and shoulder covering and bodice, and cash register have been modeled in stylized “half tone” of zigzag separating white and black; shadows take the form of dense curlicues. The tablecloth bears a “pattern” of crosses and eye-shaped forms. The map has been filled in with fingerprints.
Artist Life Dates
born 1960
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1988
Accession Number
2008/2.239
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Mama
Artist
Joseph Nechvatal
Physical Description
Dense line drawing on orange-tinted paper.
Artist Life Dates
(1951 - )
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1984
Accession Number
2008/2.247
Medium and Support
graphite and orange tint on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Shift, Warm
Artist
Julian Stanczak
Physical Description
This is a square painting with skinny vertical lines of purple on a background of orange. There are two square forms in the center, each wth a diagonal line from the lower left to upper right corners. One square is created by a pinkish, purple line and the the other is created by a reddish orange line.
Artist Life Dates
born 1928
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1991
Accession Number
2009/2.11
Medium and Support
acrylic on canvas and wood
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Head of a Young Girl, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 9, January, 1905"
Artist
Eva Watson-Schütze
Artist Life Dates
1867-1935
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1905
Accession Number
2000/2.142.7
Medium and Support
photogravure on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Boy with Camera Work, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 9, January, 1905"
Artist
Clarence H. White
Artist Life Dates
1871 - 1925
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1905
Accession Number
2000/2.142.4
Medium and Support
photogravure on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Chest of Drawers
Artist
Norman Bel Geddes
Physical Description
Four-legged black chest of drawers in metal, with contrasting chrome-plated metal in the drawer handles and a thin strip outlining the facade.
Artist Life Dates
1893-1958
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
designed 1928; produced 1929-1932
Accession Number
2012/1.293
Medium and Support
enameled steel, chrome-plated metal, brass and wood
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Springtime
Artist
John Costigan
Physical Description
In the middle of a wooded setting is a woman carrying a child on her back. A few sheep surround her, with a lamb in the center left foreground. A boy stands at the right side of the composition. The trees and the clothing of the figures are mostly in shadow.
Artist Life Dates
1888-1972
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1930
Accession Number
1980/2.175
Medium and Support
drypoint and etching on cream-colored paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Parícutin Volcano Project
Artist
Peter Hutchinson
Physical Description
Two photographs of Parícutin volcano (central Mexico) mounted on cardboard, one below the other.
Artist Life Dates
(1930 - )
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1970
Accession Number
2008/2.233
Medium and Support
photographs on cardboard
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Little Whitehead
Artist
Warren Lombard
Physical Description
This ocean scene shows a cliff on the left half of the composition, with the ocean and some birds on the right. The cliff is darker towards the bottom, and the strip of ocean is in the bottom third of the composition. There are five birds; three are more distinct, while the other two a smaller and fainter.
Artist Life Dates
1855-1939
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1927
Accession Number
1940.44
Medium and Support
drypoint on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Girl at Gees Bend
Artist
Arthur Rothstein
Artist Life Dates
1915 - 1985
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1975
Accession Number
2000/2.5
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Orange "X" with Yellow
Artist
Richard Tuttle
Physical Description
Orange “X” at center. Lower left arm of the “X” has four horizontal hash marks in yellow.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1941
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1973
Accession Number
2008/2.263
Medium and Support
watercolor on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
Title
La Vieille aux Loques
Artist
James McNeill Whistler
Physical Description
An old woman in a white cap sits in a cluttered interior. Positioned just inside the doorway, the woman is surrounded by piles of cloth with domestic objects on shelves and walls that gleam in the darkness.
Artist Life Dates
1834-1903
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1858
Accession Number
1954/1.327
Medium and Support
etching, printed in black ink on Japan paper, laid down on white wove plate paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Inkwell made of sterling silver overlay on crystal glass
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
This is a spherical shaped glass inkwell with sterling silver overlay in intricate designs of flowers and plants. The top half of the sphere, which opens horizontally, is the lid.
Object Creation Date
1875-1975
Accession Number
2010/1.221
Medium and Support
glass, metal
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Clear Water Cliff
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Physical Description
The torrential water and the Clear Water Cliff beside the Suhua Highway.
Artist Life Dates
(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
after 12/1/1973
Accession Number
2006/1.106
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Michael Goldberg
Physical Description
Abstract expressionist painting in pink, black, green and ivory, with squares pressed into the paint while wet to make an impression.
Artist Life Dates
(1924 - 2007)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1986
Accession Number
2008/2.230
Medium and Support
charcoal and oil on paper board
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Progress of Beauty 1
Artist
Mark Kostabi
Physical Description
Line drawing in felt tip marker on ivory ~ 10x13” paper.
Artist Life Dates
born 1960
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1988
Accession Number
2008/2.241
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Glasses (Double Twice Group)
Artist
Lucio Pozzi
Physical Description
One of four paintings in the series Glasses (Double Twice Group). Skinny upright rectangle with rounded edges in dark pencil at center, filled in with sheer orange wash. Translucent mint green wash covers most of the orange, except for a strip visible at the top. The colored areas extend beyond the penciled-in borders.
Artist Life Dates
born Italy, 1935
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1973
Accession Number
2008/2.249
Medium and Support
graphite, gouache, charcoal, and acrylic on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
Title
Cover, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 26, April, 1909"
Artist
Alfred Stieglitz
Artist Life Dates
1864-1946
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1909
Accession Number
2000/2.141
Medium and Support
journal containing seven photogravures on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Storm, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 9, January, 1905"
Artist
Eva Watson-Schütze
Artist Life Dates
1867-1935
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1905
Accession Number
2000/2.142.10
Medium and Support
halftone reproduction from a glycerine-print on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Untitled 1 of 4
Artist
Terry Winters
Physical Description
This is an oil painting in a vertical format painted in tones of brown, white and black. It shows four circular forms and areas with thick paint applied in broad brushstokes.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1949
Century
late 20th - early 21st century
Object Creation Date
1983
Accession Number
2009/1.544
Medium and Support
oil on linen
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Tacpere Maptom
Artist
Lynda Benglis
Physical Description
Hollow glass piece. The bottom half (whose end is flat and thus serves as a base) is a solid spring green separated by a band of translucent yellow. The top half is a darker olive green with a Kelly green stripe that winds from the yellow band at center to the hole at this end of the piece.
Artist Life Dates
(1941 - )
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1985
Accession Number
2008/2.223
Medium and Support
glass
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
DCW (Dining Chair Wood)
Artist
Charles Ormond Eames Jr.
Physical Description
Four-legged plywood side chair consisting of a trapezoidal seat and back connected by a wooden spine.
Artist Life Dates
1907-1978
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
designed 1945; produced 1946
Accession Number
2012/1.287
Medium and Support
molded walnut veneer plywood with rubber shock mounts
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Steve Keister
Physical Description
Drawing on spiral sketchbook paper in terra cotta and ivory gouache with graphite pencil.
Artist Life Dates
(1949 - )
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1998
Accession Number
2008/2.236
Medium and Support
gouache on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Adolescence
Artist
Alessandro Mastro-Valerio
Physical Description
This scene of two nude women depicts one woman in the center of scene on a circular rug, leaning against a couch or bed where the other woman lays. The center woman is shown with her torso straight on towards the viewer, her knees bent and pointing to the left, and her head tilted down and to the right. The woman laying down is shown with her head closest to the viewer, so we can only see the top of her head, her shoulders, her chest, and her hip. The background is mostly shadow, with small bits of light showing through some drapes.
Artist Life Dates
1887-1953
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1887-1940
Accession Number
1940.247
Medium and Support
mezzotint on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Spiders Don't Work on Weekends 5#
Artist
John T. Scott
Physical Description
An abstract painting of a brightly colored grid pattern.
Artist Life Dates
1940-2007
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1977
Accession Number
2011/2.186.1
Medium and Support
gouache on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Loose Leaf Notebook Drawings - Box 1, Group 12
Artist
Richard Tuttle
Physical Description
Suite of 7 watercolor sketches, each with a single calligraphic figure painted in the center of the page, typically in 2-3 colors, ranging from super saturated to a very light wash; landscape orientation with holes at top.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1941
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1980-1982
Accession Number
2008/2.265.1-7
Medium and Support
watercolor on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
Title
Blue and Silver: Morning, Ajaccio
Artist
James McNeill Whistler
Physical Description
This watercolor on Japan paper, mounted on board, is vertically oriented. The piece is very dark, with the forms barely visible and very abstract. The upper quarter of the piece is blue, white, and pink (presumably a morning sky). In the next quarter down is what appears to be a body of water reflecting the sky, which a city and hills on the fall side of the shore from the viewer. The lower half the work has abstract figures in brown and cream that appear to be on the shore. Compositionally, there is a zig-zag recession into space. The piece is surrounded by the white border of the board that it is mounted on.
Artist Life Dates
1834-1903
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1901
Accession Number
1955/1.90
Medium and Support
watercolor on Japan paper, mounted on board
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Tiffany Studios art nouveau brass inkwell with lid
Artist
Artist Unknown
Physical Description
This inkwell has a short cylindrical shape with a circlular hole iin the top and a hinged lid. The body is made of glass with a brass metal overlay decoration of vegetal designs. The lid and ink cup are metal.
Object Creation Date
1875-1975
Accession Number
2010/1.237
Medium and Support
glass, metal
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Two Zebra Nudes
Artist
Lucien Clergue
Physical Description
A black and white photo of the private areas of two people. Sunlight through blinds gives the figures a striped appearance.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1934
Century
21st century
Object Creation Date
2005
Accession Number
2011/2.159
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Richard Haas
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1965
Accession Number
2000/2.18
Medium and Support
acrylic on canvas
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Creation Place 1
North America
Title
Drawing for a Mural Painting in St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City
Artist
Francis Lathrup
Artist Life Dates
1849 - 1909
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
1899
Accession Number
2004/2.23
Medium and Support
pen and brown ink on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Glasses (Double Twice Group)
Artist
Lucio Pozzi
Physical Description
One of four paintings in the series Glasses (Double Twice Group). Skinny upright rectangle with rounded edges in dark pencil at center, filled in with sheer tan wash. Translucent mint green wash covers most of the tan, except for a strip visible at the top. The colored areas extend beyond the penciled-in borders.
Artist Life Dates
born Italy, 1935
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1973
Accession Number
2008/2.251
Medium and Support
graphite, gouache, charcoal, and acrylic on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
Title
Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 45, January, 1914
Artist
Alfred Stieglitz
Artist Life Dates
1864-1946
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1914
Accession Number
2000/2.143
Medium and Support
journal containing eight photogravures on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Angell Hall, from Eleven Lithographs by Emil Weddige Commemorating the One Hundred and Fiftieth Year of The University of Michigan
Artist
Emil Weddige
Artist Life Dates
American, born Canada, 1907-2001
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1967
Accession Number
2003/2.58.5
Medium and Support
lithograph on BFK Rives paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Danish Girl, from "Camera Work - A Photographic Quarterly, Issue No. 26, April, 1909"
Artist
Alice Boughton
Artist Life Dates
1865 - 1943
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1909
Accession Number
2000/2.141.1
Medium and Support
photogravure on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
DAX (Dining height Armshell X base) Chair
Artist
Charles Ormond Eames Jr.
Physical Description
White armchair consisting of a single plastic "shell" mounted on a black, four-legged metal base (an "H" base).
Artist Life Dates
1907-1978
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
designed circa 1948-1950; produced 1957
Accession Number
2012/1.289
Medium and Support
fiberglass resin, rubber shockmounts, black finished metal tubes and plastic glides
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Man with back to open window with telescope with his hands over his face
Artist
Rockwell Kent
Artist Life Dates
1882-1971
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1930
Accession Number
2004/2.124
Medium and Support
wood engraving on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
That Which Must Not Come; Threat Over Mexico
Artist
Leopoldo Méndez
Artist Life Dates
born 1903
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1945
Accession Number
1949/1.181
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Architectural Cadences
Artist
Charles Sheeler
Physical Description
Multiple color screenprint of an abstracted industrial landscape. In the foreground is a small strip of land, and in the middle ground are buildings of various geometric shapes and sizes. In the background, the rooflines of the buildings start to blend in and emerge from the cloudy sky.
Artist Life Dates
1883-1965
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1954
Accession Number
1983/1.216
Medium and Support
six-color screenprint on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Loose Leaf Notebook Drawings - Box 1, Group 15
Artist
Richard Tuttle
Physical Description
Suite of 12 watercolor sketches, each with a single calligraphic figure painted in the center of the page, typically in 2-3 colors, ranging from super saturated to a very light wash; landscape orientation with holes at top.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1941
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1980-1982
Accession Number
2008/2.268.1-12
Medium and Support
watercolor on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
The Sisters
Artist
James McNeill Whistler
Physical Description
Two women dressed in dark clothing sit in an interior setting. The nearer woman leans far back in an armchair, head resting on her left hand, legs crossed. The other woman is sitting more upright at the center of the composition. The women look at one another in an attitude of quiet conversation. To the left of the composition is a round table.
Artist Life Dates
1834-1903
Object Creation Date
1894-1895
Accession Number
2011/1.75
Medium and Support
transfer lithograph, with scraping on antique cream laid paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Study for the Collectors
Artist
Will Barnet
Physical Description
Study for a portrait of the Vogels, with Herbert in the foreground and Dorothy visible behind him to the left. Line drawing in pencil with erasure marks. The portrait is sketched out in a square drawn on the sheet, and signed in the lower right corner. Notes to himself include: “Dot & Herb position?” (lower left corner), “proportion & lining up of the chins, eyes” (upper right corner).
Artist Life Dates
1911-2012
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1977
Accession Number
2008/2.220
Medium and Support
pencil on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Redoubt
Artist
Charles Clough
Physical Description
High-gloss abstract expressionist painting of a large Africa-shaped form in red against black ground. Clough’s unique way of applying paint to the canvas results in a highly articulated and densely textured surface. “In place of the brush and other typical painter's tools, Clough uses an instrument he calls the ‘Big Finger,’ a large balloon-like contraption that he invented to spread poured house enamel on masonite into broad gestural constellations.” (Max Henry, “charles clough,” http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/henry/henry2-5-99.asp)
Artist Life Dates
b. 1951
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1990
Accession Number
2008/2.225
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Early Stage of Proposal for General Mills Commission (Egyptian Beauty)
Artist
Jene Highstein
Physical Description
Heavily worked and reworked pencil drawing on large square of grid paper. Form is an ovoid shape with longitudinal and lateral lines, thinner than it is tall, fit into a rectangular box that represents the block of stone to be carved. At the bottom right of the sketched image, Highstein has noted the dimensions (7’ x 7’ x 2’) x 7. Seven blocks of granite at 2’ x 2’ x 7’ were meant to be stacked and carved into the proposed shape.
Artist Life Dates
(1942 - )
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1987
Accession Number
2008/2.232
Medium and Support
graphite on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Robert Lobe
Physical Description
Pen drawing on paper printed with a blue rectangle frame; signed on verso.
Artist Life Dates
(1945 - )
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1969
Accession Number
2008/2.244
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Niemeyer's Fancy
Artist
Lucio Pozzi
Physical Description
A small, squat rectangle divided into two halves is centered on a large sheet of paper. The left half is orange at top, red at bottom, with swirling lines of tan and gray; the right half is orange at top, red at bottom, with swirling lines of blue and green. Both sides are dotted with black.
Artist Life Dates
born Italy, 1935
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1993
Accession Number
2008/2.253
Medium and Support
watercolor on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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Title
Drawing of a Point in Summer
Artist
Richard Tuttle
Physical Description
Two sweeping marks made with crayon in the middle of the page. This abstract form resembles the letter “T” with ends that curve back in, or a “P” whose loop isn’t closed.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1941
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1973
Accession Number
2008/2.260
Medium and Support
black crayon on paper
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Creation Place 1
North America
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