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Rectangular, mostly brown textile made up of many small fabric squares of the same pattern, featuring flora and fauna in green, blue, and cream.
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Kesa
1,936
1733f6b2-2cac-e8fe-4ecd-c0587da78b30
A work made of silk, plain compound cloth.
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Fragment
4,425
0da94f5f-4be8-a3d0-00c0-53d48ad4a2cf
A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.
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Utagawa Hiroshige
Kyoto: The Imperial Palace (Kyo, Dairi), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)
5,431
121a5968-7d19-5879-8974-b6a6bdaa5d1f
A work made of black crayon, with touches of charcoal, on grayish-ivory wove paper.
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László Moholy-Nagy
Seated Woman II
8,101
c24feb4e-d7f5-791e-58ee-5db1a40d0a0d
A work made of cotton, plain weave; drawnwork and embroidery in cotton, satin, buttonhole, chain, and double chain stitches with linen thread.
This apron mimics lace in its play of translucence and opacity. Fine sheer cotton muslin, imported to Europe from India, played a crucial role in fashion starting in the 1780s, but in this earlier example the embroidery motifs worked on the muslin are drawn from a traditional English vocabulary of stylized flowers. No ordinary kitchen apron, this accessory would have formed part of an elegant ensemble for a stroll in the park.
This apron mimics lace in its play of translucence and opacity. Fine sheer cotton muslin, imported to Europe from India, played a crucial role in fashion starting in the 1780s, but in this earlier example the embroidery motifs worked on the muslin are drawn from a traditional English vocabulary of stylized flowers. No ordinary kitchen apron, this accessory would have formed part of an elegant ensemble for a stroll in the park.
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Apron
10,393
357c901c-c54f-079c-0c29-d3be0a021ed4
A work made of porcelain painted in underglaze blue.
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Deep Dish with Peony, Pine Branches, Plum Blossoms, Chrysanthemum, Cherry, and Lotus Flowers
10,924
179ae0da-8834-7c92-3b25-377a08dac9e4
A work made of blown glass.
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Artist unknown
Cream Pitcher
11,460
b84f047e-f871-48c5-6bbf-618731650105
A work made of engraving in black on ivory laid paper.
The ', <a href='https://www.artic.edu/artists/43489'>deck of fifty</a>, ' so-called ', <em>Tarocchi</em>, ' are not tarots in the modern, fortune-telling sense, nor were they intended as playing cards. No cut-out impressions mounted for play are known, and they lack the suits and numbers of a regular deck. Instead, these delicately engraved didactic allegories are grouped in five numbered ranks describing the workings of the spheres of man, the muses, the liberal arts, the cosmos, and the heavens in order of increasing significance, and offer a didactic sequence to educate courtly youths or possibly university students, who could have used them as flashcards or a pamphlet.
The ', <a href='https://www.artic.edu/artists/43489'>deck of fifty</a>, ' so-called ', <em>Tarocchi</em>, ' are not tarots in the modern, fortune-telling sense, nor were they intended as playing cards. No cut-out impressions mounted for play are known, and they lack the suits and numbers of a regular deck. Instead, these delicately engraved didactic allegories are grouped in five numbered ranks describing the workings of the spheres of man, the muses, the liberal arts, the cosmos, and the heavens in order of increasing significance, and offer a didactic sequence to educate courtly youths or possibly university students, who could have used them as flashcards or a pamphlet.
Master of the E-Series Tarocchi
Philosophy, plate 28 from Arts and Sciences
11,785
04ed0f69-131f-bf49-b791-22e9cb692adb
A work made of etching and drypoint in black on ivory laid paper.
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Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
A Lion
12,707
22306679-f60a-1c18-4a7f-08720d17aab2
A work made of cotton, mixed lace: bobbin lace of a type known as "duchesse" with insets of needle lace of a type known as "point de gaze".
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Stole
12,996
1ca3bcb3-96c4-86e9-95a3-3eda06d43f13
A work made of engraving on paper.
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Gérard Edelinck
Nathanael Dilgerus
15,221
264844f6-8c7d-2380-0b82-2d635bf70255
A work made of (black) leather (toe originally longer end turned up).
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Girl's Shoe
17,252
fc06dc79-1aaf-082e-219a-04ce019c1caf
A work made of lithograph with tusche on gray wove paper laid down on white wove paper.
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Edvard Munch
Young Woman from the Latin Quarter
17,736
00e67451-6e3c-1602-58e2-f917d8d43e87
A work made of charcoal on tan wove paper.
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Max Pechstein
Factory
18,997
fe5f6428-f21f-5ec5-c7c6-fd05f9d7cfa3
A work made of color woodblock print; oban.
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Utagawa Hiroshige
Night Rain at Karasaki (Karasaki yau), from the series "Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei no uchi)"
19,794
27d96e52-9211-9cf1-7c48-02aec15f740b
A work made of lithograph on ivory wove paper.
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Rico (Frederico) LeBrun
Inferno Series E
19,959
1551a615-73b0-206c-daa2-bcb3dee2f727
A work made of etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on cream laid paper.
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James McNeill Whistler
The Little Lagoon
20,401
1d6d585b-9924-122a-c563-46d4d8f29b22
A work made of pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, and watercolor, over graphite, on buff laid paper.
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Filippo Juvara
Design for an Altar in the Church of the Confraternity of Santissima Trinita, Turin
21,346
0738dff5-6225-10b0-bc17-49492271968f
A work made of dehua ware (blanc de chine); porcelain.
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Bottle-Shaped Vase with a Lizard
21,550
40694d77-c9d7-d861-e201-4228e99316e7
A work made of lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso.
A favorite of Daumier’s, this print is a play on traditional genre scenes, comically at odds with the sense it portrays. “Sight” is represented by a nighttime stroll alongside the River Seine, with Notre Dame emerging hazily from the darkness. The clearest object is the moon, represented by a curve of unmarked paper, in stark contrast with the heavily shaded image. The moon’s prominence only deepens the print’s irony: a crescent moon is traditionally a symbol that a husband has been cuckolded by his wife, suggesting that the man in the print cannot see what is right before his eyes.
A favorite of Daumier’s, this print is a play on traditional genre scenes, comically at odds with the sense it portrays. “Sight” is represented by a nighttime stroll alongside the River Seine, with Notre Dame emerging hazily from the darkness. The clearest object is the moon, represented by a curve of unmarked paper, in stark contrast with the heavily shaded image. The moon’s prominence only deepens the print’s irony: a crescent moon is traditionally a symbol that a husband has been cuckolded by his wife, suggesting that the man in the print cannot see what is right before his eyes.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier
Sight, plate 39 from Types Parisiens
21,740
ffc94295-939f-e686-083d-32f11164cc33
A work made of color woodblock print; oban triptych.
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Torii Kiyonaga
A Party Viewing the Moon Across the Sumida River
21,972
252300fe-5c24-5056-99ba-171a8db76ed6
A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.
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Katsukawa Shunsho
Actor Nakamura Sukegorô II as Ninja Aso no Matsuwaka in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”)
22,166
09d21550-d7bb-e624-ffea-293dea03d571
A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban; right sheet of diptych (?).
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Katsukawa Shunkо̄
The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Ogata no Saburo Disguised as Yoroya Takiemon in the Play Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780
22,793
302e2fdd-3359-d11c-cae4-bcf9350a8732
A work made of color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych.
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Torii Kiyonaga
The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro V as Hige no Ikyu, Nakamura Riko as Agemaki, and Ichikawa Ebizo as Agemaki's attendant in the play "Sukeroku Yukari no Edozakura" at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1784
24,552
30ebf39b-820a-a98c-3317-2b4eb6ecc146
A work made of bronze gilt.
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In the manner of Pierre Gouthière
Pair of Candelabra
25,374
329b85e4-2865-1281-feeb-5c0ab47e500e
A work made of etching in black on ivory laid paper.
This etching might represent two related proverbs popularized by the philosopher/writer Erasmus in the mid-1500s: “He who chases two hares catches neither” and “A hare yourself, you hunt for prey.” In compositional terms, the proverb served Pieter Bruegel the Elder as more of a pretext for the sweeping landscape scene that occupies most of the printed field.
This etching might represent two related proverbs popularized by the philosopher/writer Erasmus in the mid-1500s: “He who chases two hares catches neither” and “A hare yourself, you hunt for prey.” In compositional terms, the proverb served Pieter Bruegel the Elder as more of a pretext for the sweeping landscape scene that occupies most of the printed field. Bruegel’s inf luence on the early development of the landscape genre cannot be overestimated. He created important landscape drawings, but his impact spread even more forcefully through the medium of printmaking. This is the only etching he is believed to have executed himself.
Pieter Bruegel, the elder
The Hare Hunters
25,597
f3bd78e7-a27f-2535-5602-fdb39d230da2
A work made of color woodblock print; oban.
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Utagawa Hiroshige
Hara: Mount Fuji in the Morning (Hara, asa no Fuji), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi)," also known as the Hoeido Tokaido
26,145
faded2cf-0148-8f67-1430-265126f5a978
A work made of linen, raised needle lace.
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Border
26,794
0754f7b3-e6bf-e819-8466-68c1e4eef82f
A work made of color woodblock print; oban.
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Kitagawa Utamaro
Hanaogi of the Ogiya, from the series "Renowned Beauties Likened to the Six Immortal Poets (Komei bijin rokkasen)"
27,907
0fec1b3c-5efd-b4b3-99f6-f6d2eceff5e9
A work made of etching on paper.
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Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
Two Men on a Mountain Top
28,829
237fb317-8cc6-70b5-f8fc-e038f77902fa
A work made of etching and engraving on verdâtre (greenish) laid paper.
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Charles Meryon
The Clock Tower, Paris
29,581
0b80c261-d668-ece5-43d6-f76b59207a18
A work made of color lithograph on cream wove paper.
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Frederic Charles Herrick
Where to Spend Your Holiday
30,184
56b1e059-ded8-b816-2b63-6c1420886780
A work made of fritware, underglaze-painted decoration.
Sultanabad wares were known for their distinct style of decoration, namely the loose unconnected foliage used as a background for a central figure rather than a landscape. While this vessel is typical of Sultanabad wares, it also hints at Chinese influences introduced under the Mongols. The lotus flower, a popular symbol in China associated with purity, appears here just above the back of the central animal figure. The lotus was frequently represented in Islamic contexts, though most likely without the rich associations held by Chinese cultures.
Sultanabad wares were known for their distinct style of decoration, namely the loose unconnected foliage used as a background for a central figure rather than a landscape. While this vessel is typical of Sultanabad wares, it also hints at Chinese influences introduced under the Mongols. The lotus flower, a popular symbol in China associated with purity, appears here just above the back of the central animal figure. The lotus was frequently represented in Islamic contexts, though most likely without the rich associations held by Chinese cultures.
Islamic
Bowl
30,401
852ae95d-7fbc-1383-8936-a5bd99a5c614
A work made of etching and drypoint in blue ink with plate tone on white wove paper.
Although her primary focus was painting and drawing, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Suellen Rocca decided to minor in printmaking, taking courses with Vera Berdich, who taught etching. While still a student Rocca married a jeweler and became fascinated with gems and settings. In this etching inspired by jewelers’ catalogs, she transformed rows of gemstones and miniature figures into an ordered script reminiscent of ancient pictograms.
Although her primary focus was painting and drawing, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Suellen Rocca decided to minor in printmaking, taking courses with Vera Berdich, who taught etching. While still a student Rocca married a jeweler and became fascinated with gems and settings. In this etching inspired by jewelers’ catalogs, she transformed rows of gemstones and miniature figures into an ordered script reminiscent of ancient pictograms.
Suellen Rocca
Rings
30,840
ffa581b9-929c-a639-31a5-f2c407e30c7c
A work made of gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "photographs: rhode island school design, 1967–68," edition 101/150.
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Brian Pelletier
Off Rte. 195, Mass. No. 3
31,413
0d781f3d-bb8d-5234-fcb6-f10084db9cbc
A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.
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Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Prince Takahiro in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778
31,826
0b26b98d-7b0b-c01a-6fe7-d0972d993527
A work made of silver.
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Loring Bailey
Snuff Box
32,070
33d2c37e-a023-e31e-7710-741a01234476
A work made of albumen print, plate 47 from the album "photographic views of the sherman campaign" (1866).
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George N. Barnard
Savannah River, near Savannah, GA
32,344
12a0eac8-a777-9408-db84-870905a68855
A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.
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Katsukawa Shunjо̄
The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Sukeroku in the Play Sukeroku Yukari no Edo-zakura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Sixth Month, 1782
32,551
35f70046-333e-5d66-5f14-31159e9d3325
A work made of color woodblock print; hosoban.
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Katsukawa Shun'ei
Actor Ichikawa Komazô III as Nyosan no Miya (The Third Princess), Ukare Zatô (A Blind Street Performer), and Sakata no Kaidô-maru in “Expanded Summer Festival” (“Zôho natsu matsuri”)
33,528
11cf37b2-ec03-7468-81f8-20e9eac5b9c9
A work made of color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet.
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Utagawa Hiroshige
Sakura Island and Osumi Province (Osumi Sakurajima, section of sheet no. 18 from the series "Cutout Pictures of the Provinces (Kunizukushi harimaze zue)"
34,140
42fd7897-b978-6f76-5f49-b3028384644d
A work made of gelatin silver print.
Lucien Clergue made most of his photographs—principally nudes, portraits of artists, landscapes, and images of bull-fighting—close to his native home of Arles. Like his friend and mentor Pablo Picasso, Clergue had long been fascinated by the rituals of bullfighting, which combined grace and art with violence and danger. He began photographing the great bullfighter and Spanish popular hero known as El Cordobés in 1963, soon publishing a book that showcased the matador’s theatrical style. In 1970 Hugh Edwards acquired six of Clergue’s photographs, and that summer he mounted an exhibition on the artist. This photograph, taken from a ground-level position that emphasizes the bull’s seeming anguish over the man’s exertions, was showcased on the exhibition’s printed announcement.
Lucien Clergue made most of his photographs—principally nudes, portraits of artists, landscapes, and images of bull-fighting—close to his native home of Arles. Like his friend and mentor Pablo Picasso, Clergue had long been fascinated by the rituals of bullfighting, which combined grace and art with violence and danger. He began photographing the great bullfighter and Spanish popular hero known as El Cordobés in 1963, soon publishing a book that showcased the matador’s theatrical style. In 1970 Hugh Edwards acquired six of Clergue’s photographs, and that summer he mounted an exhibition on the artist. This photograph, taken from a ground-level position that emphasizes the bull’s seeming anguish over the man’s exertions, was showcased on the exhibition’s printed announcement.
Lucien Georges Clergue
El Cordobés
34,716
0412a100-fc2e-b801-78f9-eb4c3d7aafb0
A work made of color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book.
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Suzuki Harunobu
Double-page Illustration from Vol. 1 of "Picture Book of Spring Brocades (Ehon haru no nishiki)"
36,783
01f2ed67-bb9a-cedd-ce46-e98fa9c061a6
A work made of photogravure, from "the mexican portfolio" (1967).
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Paul Strand
Young Woman and Boy, Toluca
37,032
1412194f-44dd-8a70-ac8d-a055d0a05d12
A work made of color lithograph on white wove paper.
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Richard Hunt
Ravinia
40,189
164710f1-4955-5243-271f-524ebc8b6881
A work made of color lithograph on off-white wove paper.
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Misch Kohn
The People
41,768
368c4139-8085-435a-7be0-ea0763b8846f
A work made of lithograph on off-white wove paper.
The painter and printmaker Dominique-Vivant Denon excelled in quick sketches of people and monuments. In 1798 he accompanied a French expedition to Egypt, documenting architectural settings for many of the artifacts Napoleon acquired. Back in France, Denon produced numerous lithographs in the same lively manner and hosted gatherings in which guests attempted to produce lithographs themselves. Here the group admires the skill of one of Denon’s female guests, possibly also his pupil. Unusually, she draws a muscular naked man on her thin lithographic stone. In this period, women receiving professional academy training did not study from the nude, yet this amateur exudes pride in her accomplishment.
The painter and printmaker Dominique-Vivant Denon excelled in quick sketches of people and monuments. In 1798 he accompanied a French expedition to Egypt, documenting architectural settings for many of the artifacts Napoleon acquired. Back in France, Denon produced numerous lithographs in the same lively manner and hosted gatherings in which guests attempted to produce lithographs themselves. Here the group admires the skill of one of Denon’s female guests, possibly also his pupil. Unusually, she draws a muscular naked man on her thin lithographic stone. In this period, women receiving professional academy training did not study from the nude, yet this amateur exudes pride in her accomplishment.
Dominique-Vivant Denon
Lithography Lesson
42,779
22ddde1f-d78b-7dac-440b-a5072e9ab34b
A work made of porcelain with copper red peachbloom glaze.
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Red-Glazed Bottle Vase
43,225
f596c760-dd28-7bdc-ae72-e020402e6f0e
A work made of etching in black on cream wove paper.
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David Wilkie
Charles James Fox on the Hustings at Covent Garden
43,543
24d68049-de4a-f07a-bfd3-dc6c71fc9948
A work made of glass; lampwork (verre de nevers), metal armature.
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Jupiter
43,869
120429fc-eac9-5684-bea4-c2e662ca632a
A work made of etching on paper.
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Mary, Helped by Two Angels, Follows Joseph with the Donkey, plate 25 from The Flight into Egypt
44,089
23655010-cf54-f1e8-03b8-4c50352102ce
A work made of silver gilt.
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Porringer with Lid
45,287
1750126a-ba47-90da-3bc5-eb60c47a3e33
A work made of silk, bobbin straight lace (made in vertical strips).
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Collar with Lappets
45,476
2b6897fc-fbea-2052-7a68-f197ce4fc13e
Brown toned drawing of nude woman seated on small stool.
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Lester George Hornby
The Farms
46,056
10653fce-9372-6584-5778-f99d63041615
A work made of gelatin silver print.
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Doris Ulmann
A Pennsylvania Fireman
47,694
118a9fb4-67f1-f687-60f9-0fa46f3f85d0
A work made of glazed stoneware.
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Gustavsberg Pottery
Bowl
47,922
fbf38d39-8416-c921-1e77-4cde229e1475
A work made of color woodblock print; aiban.
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Utagawa Hiroshige
Evening Rain at Massaki, Eight Views of the Sumida River (Sumidagawa hakkei, Massaki yau), from the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto meisho no uchi)"
48,405
07617774-a46c-4d91-d2bd-b5927f0729ad
A work made of gelatin silver print.
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Brett Weston
Untitled
49,973
30249a83-f0d1-fffa-fd7e-293371649414
A work made of photogravure, plate 305 from "the north american indian, volume 9" (1913).
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Edward S. Curtis
Suquamish Woman
50,163
159be02d-feff-873f-be00-5820568f0dde
A work made of hand-colored woodcut, printed on ivory laid paper.
Devotional woodcuts were heavily used in 15th-century Europe, variously folded and carried as talismans, pasted on bedroom walls, and kept in family Bibles. While hundreds were printed at the time, only a handful of impressions have survived to today. The only remaining extant copy of the image, this impression was pasted into the frontispiece of a book from a German Augustine nunnery, where viewers would have imagined Christ’s pain through repeated study and imitation. The woodcut offers an intensely personal focal point of meditation on Christ’s suffering. Like the nearby ', <em>Thirteen Buddhas</em>, ' (1925.1697), he appears as a floating vision. Nearly naked after his Crucifixion, blood streams from his nail wounds and crown of thorns.
Devotional woodcuts were heavily used in 15th-century Europe, variously folded and carried as talismans, pasted on bedroom walls, and kept in family Bibles. While hundreds were printed at the time, only a handful of impressions have survived to today. The only remaining extant copy of the image, this impression was pasted into the frontispiece of a book from a German Augustine nunnery, where viewers would have imagined Christ’s pain through repeated study and imitation. The woodcut offers an intensely personal focal point of meditation on Christ’s suffering. Like the nearby ', <em>Thirteen Buddhas</em>, ' (1925.1697), he appears as a floating vision. Nearly naked after his Crucifixion, blood streams from his nail wounds and crown of thorns.
Unknown artist
The Man of Sorrows
50,412
02470d1c-0100-4563-29a4-0b0c0e055379
A work made of etching in black on cream laid paper.
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Herman Armour Webster
La Rue du Hallage, Rouen
50,909
73eb91ee-cde0-2f6d-843f-4f263d5c409f
Sculpture in light stone of the head of a bearded man with wavy hair and wide eyes, missing a nose.
This imposing head probably comes from a full-length sculpture of an apostle that was one of the column or jamb figures flanking the portals of the west facade of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Showing the heritage of ancient and Byzantine models, it bears all the stylistic hallmarks of the beginning of the Gothic style in the region around the year 1200. The object’s origin was the subject of heated scholarly debate for several decades. Neutron activation analysis has shown that the limestone came from a quarry that also supplied stone for other carvings on Notre-Dame. The discovery of sculptural fragments from the cathedral’s Gallery of Kings above the west portals, dated to between 1220 and 1235 (and now in the Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris), provided an important point of comparison. The Art Institute’s head is said to have been found during excavations for the modernization of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. Medieval sculpture from Notre-Dame was purposefully damaged in the 1790s during the French Revolution because of its presumed royal associations. Fragments of some of the sculpture removed at the order of the revolutionary tribunal were buried out of a lingering respect for its tradition and quality, to be rediscovered in later years.
This imposing head probably comes from a full-length sculpture of an apostle that was one of the column or jamb figures flanking the portals of the west facade of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Showing the heritage of ancient and Byzantine models, it bears all the stylistic hallmarks of the beginning of the Gothic style in the region around the year 1200. The object’s origin was the subject of heated scholarly debate for several decades. Neutron activation analysis has shown that the limestone came from a quarry that also supplied stone for other carvings on Notre-Dame. The discovery of sculptural fragments from the cathedral’s Gallery of Kings above the west portals, dated to between 1220 and 1235 (and now in the Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris), provided an important point of comparison. The Art Institute’s head is said to have been found during excavations for the modernization of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. Medieval sculpture from Notre-Dame was purposefully damaged in the 1790s during the French Revolution because of its presumed royal associations. Fragments of some of the sculpture removed at the order of the revolutionary tribunal were buried out of a lingering respect for its tradition and quality, to be rediscovered in later years.
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Head of an Apostle
51,606
2b7c3acd-796d-f914-35f4-acf243482265
A work made of lithograph in black with hand-stenciled color (pochoir) in blue, yellow, and orange on cream wove paper.
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Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen
Poor Pandora!...
53,626
350efc85-f0b3-b123-89f3-39c64d34872c
A work made of aquatint on paper.
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Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup
Fenelon
55,790
02b9e183-f6d3-1b4d-b247-aa631adfa06c
A work made of etching in black on ivory laid paper.
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Camille Pissarro
Paul Cézanne
56,067
2852203f-fb65-496d-65a0-2cefa7e58302
A work made of color aquatint on white wove paper.
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Jack Tworkov
L-SF-ES-#2
58,009
1c6e852e-dd7b-2c12-b143-b1a91da58994
A work made of lithograph on cream wove paper.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Rabbits' Waltz
58,835
2053ba47-e1a3-391f-2bc6-07d45286c286
A work made of glass.
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Pietro Bigaglia
Paperweight
59,741
3ef03a4a-ae4a-5d31-d380-e8d6d2ca6109
A work made of albumen print, stereo.
Text printed on reverse of stereocard:
Text printed on reverse of stereocard: There is not to be found in this country, perhaps in the world, a more strikingly wonderful and beautiful freak of Nature than the Watkins Glen. Differing essentially in all its characteristics from any other remarkable locality of Natural interest, it has as distinct an individuality as the Falls of Niagara or the Mammoth Cave.
G. F. Gates
Artist's Dream, No. 18 from the series "Stereographs of the Watkins Glen"
60,514
f7433947-21bb-5b7f-c02f-e6f15c72bcd0
A work made of oil on panel.
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Bartolomé de Cárdenas, (called Bermejo)
Saint Augustine
60,737
1fbee37e-160a-04de-5431-06552b60032c
A work made of cotton, plain weave; pieced and appliquéd with cotton, plain weave; batting; backed with cotton, plain weave; appliquéd areas embroidered in buttonhole, chain, running, and stem stitches.
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Maggie Carson
Sunbonnet Sue Quilt
61,563
251a8d70-3466-9dda-1a0a-f245fb4cf9d9
A work made of steel engraving colored with wooden blocks, on paper.
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George Baxter
The Parting Look (with Man and Box)
61,827
27ee8bcc-89d7-9be6-2e19-a62fc8ba6d36
A work made of oil monotype from a glass matrix on paper.
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Pedro Pruna
Study in White (Etude en Blanc)
62,013
1676dd23-e40a-170e-48e8-854cbb0b47c1
A work made of silk, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary binding wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut, uncut, and voided velvet.
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Fragment
64,469
69bb6e7a-38ed-8d36-c277-d0fa97c32843
A work made of pieced, painted and embroidered quilt; silk and cotton velvet weaves; silk embroidery threads; metal, silk and cotton cord.
The images on this hanging signal that it may be a souvenir of Mexico. The octagonal piece of fabric in the center features the national coat of arms: an eagle eating a serpent grasped in its talons while standing on a prickly pear cactus. Irregularly shaped pieces of fabric surround this central image and contain painted scenes that depict bullfighting, pre-Columbian sculpture, flowers, butterflies, views of the landscape, and scenes of everyday life. The collection and combination of these scenes suggest that the hanging could be an expression of affection for a place well known and loved or a place imagined through armchair travel.', <br/>, '—', <em>Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs</em>, ', October 20, 2017-April 1, 2018
The images on this hanging signal that it may be a souvenir of Mexico. The octagonal piece of fabric in the center features the national coat of arms: an eagle eating a serpent grasped in its talons while standing on a prickly pear cactus. Irregularly shaped pieces of fabric surround this central image and contain painted scenes that depict bullfighting, pre-Columbian sculpture, flowers, butterflies, views of the landscape, and scenes of everyday life. The collection and combination of these scenes suggest that the hanging could be an expression of affection for a place well known and loved or a place imagined through armchair travel.', <br/>, '—', <em>Making Memories: Quilts as Souvenirs</em>, ', October 20, 2017-April 1, 2018
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Hanging
66,381
270de187-b5c5-f746-d21b-c53918f5b1a8
A work made of watercolor and pen and black ink, with brush and black ink, over graphite, on off-white illustration board.
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Richard Aberle Florsheim
Welded Steel Xmas Trees
66,645
a14de279-92af-d636-168d-049a1c3bfee2
A work made of gelatin silver print.
For more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website: ', <a href='http://media.artic.edu/stieglitz'>The Alfred Stieglitz Collection</a>, '.
For more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website: ', <a href='http://media.artic.edu/stieglitz'>The Alfred Stieglitz Collection</a>, '.
Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
67,012
4b482c19-b176-483f-825a-70c15a67f4c7
A work made of etching, selectively wiped, on ivory japanese paper.
In ', <em>Cathedral, Rouen</em>, ', Marin evoked the grandeur of the massive church less through an elaboration of architectural detail than through the piling up of vertical lines, harnessing the energy of the towers’ skyward thrust.
In ', <em>Cathedral, Rouen</em>, ', Marin evoked the grandeur of the massive church less through an elaboration of architectural detail than through the piling up of vertical lines, harnessing the energy of the towers’ skyward thrust.
John Marin
Cathedral, Rouen
67,561
1232c0b7-0f44-ddaf-fb2b-7eb6ad25b1d4
A work made of stoneware (jasperware).
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Wedgwood Manufactory
Plaque with Boys Playing
69,780
3f9aa9db-61e1-7060-fdb0-bfd7e41ddd08
Portrait of a woman in white with a bonnet perched on an architectural feature painting something to her right, a spouting water fountain, greenery, and a an ornate, low white fence behind her. Beside her, a man leans back, eying the canvas.
The year 1907 was a turning point for John Singer Sargent, as he daringly stepped away from his successful career as a portraitist in favor of plein air painting. This strong and lively work aptly captures that moment of transition, combining landscape and portraiture in a composition that speaks to friendship and painterly pursuits while also celebrating color, surface, and fleeting effects of light and movement. The couple is Wilfrid and Jane Emmet de Glehn, professional artists and Sargent’s frequent traveling companions. Although ', <em>The Fountain</em>, ' has the appearance of spontaneity, Sargent was frequently interrupted by rain as he worked. He thus completed it over several days, requiring his friends to pose at length.
The year 1907 was a turning point for John Singer Sargent, as he daringly stepped away from his successful career as a portraitist in favor of plein air painting. This strong and lively work aptly captures that moment of transition, combining landscape and portraiture in a composition that speaks to friendship and painterly pursuits while also celebrating color, surface, and fleeting effects of light and movement. The couple is Wilfrid and Jane Emmet de Glehn, professional artists and Sargent’s frequent traveling companions. Although ', <em>The Fountain</em>, ' has the appearance of spontaneity, Sargent was frequently interrupted by rain as he worked. He thus completed it over several days, requiring his friends to pose at length.
John Singer Sargent
The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy
70,095
389bf38c-5fc4-5594-37d9-e237008107c4
A work made of jade.
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Dragon Pendant
70,935
e5eaaaa3-448e-a870-6936-f9d82c890af2
A work made of graphite and charcoal on strathmore board.
Although many of Mies’s plans and models adopt a bird’s-eye view, his design for the IIT campus also relied heavily on sketches done at eye level. This allowed the architect to work out potential problem areas, such as the experience of approaching a building at human scale. These sketches and studies were then used by architects in his office to create working drawings for construction.
Although many of Mies’s plans and models adopt a bird’s-eye view, his design for the IIT campus also relied heavily on sketches done at eye level. This allowed the architect to work out potential problem areas, such as the experience of approaching a building at human scale. These sketches and studies were then used by architects in his office to create working drawings for construction.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Early Study for the Library and Administration Building, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, Perspective
73,029
10465118-624f-0e77-d0ef-2c407a02b47e
A work made of linen, plain weave; embroidered with wool and silk in cross stitches.
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Harriot A. Raymond
Sampler
73,595
00c5b323-f3fc-f704-beb9-1b386687cefd
A work made of transfer lithograph in black with stumping, on cream laid japanese vellum.
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James McNeill Whistler
The Terrace, Luxembourg
75,210
7a0a5a26-ce6d-95f1-c9f6-4d1a7a8f18f1
A work made of etching in black on ivory laid paper.
Wenceslaus Hollar worked in London for the better part of two periods, 1637–41 and 1652–77, and these were two of the most productive of his printmaking career. He etched a variety of subjects, including landscapes, and reproduced artworks in the collection of his host, the Earl of Arundel. Hollar also documented Saint Paul’s Cathedral from the inside and out, including this imagined exterior view from before a lightning bolt destroyed the spire in 1561. He was still living in London during the Great Fire of September 1666, when the whole structure burned. Indeed, several of Hollar’s etching plates from this project were lost in the fire.
Wenceslaus Hollar worked in London for the better part of two periods, 1637–41 and 1652–77, and these were two of the most productive of his printmaking career. He etched a variety of subjects, including landscapes, and reproduced artworks in the collection of his host, the Earl of Arundel. Hollar also documented Saint Paul’s Cathedral from the inside and out, including this imagined exterior view from before a lightning bolt destroyed the spire in 1561. He was still living in London during the Great Fire of September 1666, when the whole structure burned. Indeed, several of Hollar’s etching plates from this project were lost in the fire.
Wenceslaus Hollar
Saint Paul's from the South Showing the Spire
77,031
038bc14a-e57b-bf0e-f02f-e383eca72298
A work made of manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf on vellum.
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Illuminated Border with Grotesques and Flora from a Manuscript
81,931
35472f6a-beca-e18a-89d0-f616a48401c5
A work made of pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, on brown tinted laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper.
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Vincenzo Camuccini
Christ in Glory with Saints
83,036
35d508fe-c86e-4579-39bc-98ecbc020a78
A work made of pressed glass.
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Sampson, Lindley & Co.
Cup plate
83,313
2a464af1-2ea2-09e2-04ca-9d02be623946
A work made of pressed glass.
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null
Artist unknown
Cup plate
85,049
29f49600-4f4e-b641-d9f8-4da196ad1345
A work made of cotton and wool (camelid), tapestry weave with supplementary weft slit closure; edged with wool (camelid) in cross-knit loop stitches.
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Wari
Band
85,787
0167cae9-19d0-f09d-1883-8b1a74ab807c
A work made of black and white chalk, on gray prepared ground, on ivory laid paper.
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Pierre-Jacques Volaire
Dancing Woman
86,424
2aab38f0-b743-332a-93f2-8ea2981da7e3
A work made of cotton, plain weave; printed.
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Two Panels
87,472
1102ff20-d5de-0ac7-1371-ecb8a653d5c4
A work made of sycamore, painted and gilded.
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Trencher with a Scene from Aesop's Fables
89,020
00352d34-0ea9-0acc-14dd-3a9a2fcd418d
A work made of pewter.
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Wine Can
90,263
361dbff2-2681-af4a-fbee-ff1cd4f1096d
A work made of hand-colored etching on paper.
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James Gillray
Patriotic Petitions on the Convention
90,984
1b3e9a14-4deb-2b0a-6ee6-54ca60c0383f
Abstract painting with an orange mass in the center surrounded by green and pink tones, painted in wide brushstrokes.
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Eva Hesse
Untitled
91,513
f7484e4c-f3e5-a91f-b180-7096f4d55550
A work made of ceramic and pigment.
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Nieveria
Double-Chambered Jar Depicting a Figure Holding a Cup or Flute
92,882
f83d40a0-a48d-1b26-0d95-ef3588890946
A work made of silk, plain compound cloth.
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Panel
94,494
2aeafaf3-ce88-8c6c-32f6-87609eab8ffa
A work made of glass.
Technological improvements to optical scientific instruments in the mid-nineteenth century spurred a veritable obsession across Europe with identifying and classifying the natural world. Amateur botanists were eager to collect and preserve floral specimens, which they intently researched and catalogued. In response to this broad appeal, French glassmakers made paperweights that portrayed the very botanical subjects that were so enthusiastically sought. Many weights represented specimens with horticultural correctness, but others were entirely fanciful creations. Paperweights like this example speak to the period’s fascination with taxonomic systems.
Technological improvements to optical scientific instruments in the mid-nineteenth century spurred a veritable obsession across Europe with identifying and classifying the natural world. Amateur botanists were eager to collect and preserve floral specimens, which they intently researched and catalogued. In response to this broad appeal, French glassmakers made paperweights that portrayed the very botanical subjects that were so enthusiastically sought. Many weights represented specimens with horticultural correctness, but others were entirely fanciful creations. Paperweights like this example speak to the period’s fascination with taxonomic systems. From the late 1840s to early 1860s, French manufacturers of fine glass and crystal—such as Baccarat (Alsace), Clichy (Paris), and Saint-Louis (Lorraine)—catered to the vast public enthusiasm for beautiful yet functional desk accessories. Paperweights, which were designed to secure loose papers against drafts, were among their most popular products.
Clichy Glasshouse
Paperweight
95,720
ff24874a-9210-8599-7b1e-37b07e4231dc
A work made of pen and gray ink with brush and gray wash over graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto cream laid card.
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Jan de Beyer
Sailboats on Canal near Spaarendam