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Title

Model of a three-story watchtower

Artist

Artist Unknown, China

Century

1st century

Object Creation Date

1st century - 2nd century

Accession Number

1993/1.73.1

Medium and Support

earthenware, red, with green lead glaze

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rank 18.52092

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Title

Brick Walls

Artist

André Kertész

Physical Description

A black and white photo of brick buildings. A window and door of one building are captured. The background of the photo is composed with a sketch-like quality.

Artist Life Dates

b. Hungary, 1894-1985

Object Creation Date

October 23, 1961; printed 1973

Accession Number

2011/2.8

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 17.78988

Secondary Keywords

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Title

Manhattan (Building Reflections)

Artist

Louis Stettner

Physical Description

A view looking up between multiple skyscrapers. As the buildings are all reflective, they highlight eachother.

Artist Life Dates

born 1922

Object Creation Date

1994

Accession Number

2012/2.157

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

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rank 17.50391

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Title

New York

Artist

Louis Stettner

Physical Description

A cityscape scene with skyscrapers and a large crane between them. The angle does not show the ground and is more of a mid-range view of the buildings.

Artist Life Dates

born 1922

Object Creation Date

1986

Accession Number

2012/2.155

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

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rank 17.11050

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height

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Title

Nueva York

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

A sunset cityscape view with the sun right above the high-rise buiildings in New York City.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

circa 1977

Accession Number

2011/2.81

Medium and Support

color lithograph on paper

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rank 16.76586

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Title

Atlanta

Artist

Joel Meyerowitz

Physical Description

Night scene of two buildings with florescent lights. Taken from the perspective of looking up the buildings from the ground.

Artist Life Dates

born 1938

Object Creation Date

1988

Accession Number

2012/2.126

Medium and Support

vintage chromogenic contact print on paper

relevance

rank 16.65810

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Title

Untitled, New York Skies

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers in neutral colors. Dark clouds hang in the sky.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

circa 1980

Accession Number

2011/2.138

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 16.59047

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Title

New York Sunset

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

New York City skyscrapers seen from a distance. Dark clouds in the sky could be bringing rain.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

circa 1980

Accession Number

2011/2.137

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 16.59047

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Title

Looking West from My Studio

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

Several buildings are depicted against a clear blue sky. A water tower is visible on one of the buildings.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1987

Accession Number

2011/2.100

Medium and Support

color lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 16.26716

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Title

The Square House, Amsterdam

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Physical Description

A street facing onto a canal is seen at a very slight angle. The three buildings each have balconies (some enclosed), banks of windows, and doors at the water's edge. A dense network of hatching lines describe the brick facades, balconies and windows, and reflecions.

Artist Life Dates

1834-1903

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1889

Accession Number

1954/1.404

Medium and Support

etching and drypoint, printed in brown ink on laid paper

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rank 16.13356

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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

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rank 15.83493

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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

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rank 15.79498

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Title

Tu Walpi, Arizona

Artist

Carl Hoerman

Physical Description

Two figures in the foreground stand with their backs to the viewer, looking toward buildings in the middleground. The buildings are built in the pueblo style, with some arched windows and beams jutting out from the roof. A ladder leans against a building in the far left of the composition. The scene is heavily shadowed, by both the buildings and the figures.

Artist Life Dates

American, born Germany, 1885-1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1885-1954

Accession Number

1954/1.117

Medium and Support

drypoint on paper

relevance

rank 15.17702

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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

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rank 15.03860

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Title

New York on a Sunny Day

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

A two point perspective lithograph print depicting a high-rise building in New York.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1987

Accession Number

2011/2.67

Medium and Support

color lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 14.93465

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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

relevance

rank 14.34638

Secondary Keywords

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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

relevance

rank 14.09773

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Title

Untitled, New York Sunset

Artist

Emilio Sanchez

Physical Description

An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers against a sunset. A large cloud is set in the middle of the sky.

Artist Life Dates

b. 1921

Object Creation Date

1985

Accession Number

2011/2.141

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

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rank 13.95786

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Title

Construction (Konstruktion)

Artist

László Moholy-Nagy

Physical Description

Two tall, rectangular intersecting planes, one black and one white, create the appearance of a tall, minimal structure. Vertical lines of black and white add to the structure, which at its base projects slightly into a rough square shape that seems to delineate a kind of ground or base. The space around the structure is ochre.

Artist Life Dates

Hungary, 1895-1946

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1923

Accession Number

1957/1.30

Medium and Support

color lithograph on paper

relevance

rank 12.66912

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