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Title

Oversized Lamp Shade

Artist

Stickley Brothers Furniture Company

Physical Description

The peaked shade has eight panels with overlaid linear copper border decoration above a cove molded lower rim. The lamp retains four original sockets. The upper column consists of an octagonal capped vase-form with a dominant ogee profile over a round medial column which is slightly beveled in form and decorated with spaced, spirally arranged brass rods applied to its surface. The octagonal molded base repeats the ogee profile of the upper vase form.

Artist Life Dates

1891 - circa 1947

Object Creation Date

circa 1904-1918

Accession Number

2013/2.241B

Medium and Support

patinated and hammered copper and brass with textured caramel slag glass panels

relevance

rank 22.27182

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Title

Under the Lamp (Sous la Lampe)

Artist

Albert Dubois-Pillet

Physical Description

This is a tondo painting with a circular frame that is painted in tones of violet. It is a still-life scene that shows a lamp, resting on a table, set against a green wall. On the wall behind the lamp is a painting, but only the lower right-hand corner is visible due to the sharp curve of the circular format of the painting. On the table, beside the lamp, is a piece of paper and an ink well in the shape of a human figure. The base of the lamp has a curvilinear profile and the pleated shade is painted in bright colors of orange, pink, green and yellow. Both the scene and the frame are painted with short, dot-like brushstrokes.

Artist Life Dates

1846 - 1890

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1888

Accession Number

1988/1.140

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 20.37843

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Title

Lamp

Artist

Artist Unknown, Syria

Century

12th-13th century

Object Creation Date

12th century - 13th century

Accession Number

1961/1.191

Medium and Support

glass with enameled decoration

relevance

rank 16.31938

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Title

Monument to the Lycée Chases

Artist

Christian Boltanski

Physical Description

Three black and white photographs of young people's faces are vertically arranged. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictues. All the photos are surrounded by an arrangement of light bulbs, which are connected by a network of electrical cables that snake along the walls and over the photos.

Artist Life Dates

Born 1944

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1989

Accession Number

2006/1.154

Medium and Support

gelatin silver prints, biscuit tins, electric cables, and sixty-eight lightbulbs

relevance

rank 14.76129

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Title

Untitled (March 5th) #2

Artist

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Physical Description

Two forty-watt light bulbs in simple porcelain light sockets hang together by their extension cords from a nail on the wall.

Artist Life Dates

1957-1996

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

1999/2.17

Medium and Support

40-watt light bulbs, extension cords, porcelain light sockets

relevance

rank 13.59509

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