deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Bowl with Pseudo-Inscriptional Design
Object type: bowl
Date: 901 – 1000
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Techniques: polychrome
Location: uzbekistan

The main decoration of this bowl contains a band of epigraphy that might be read as the graphic contraction of the word "bi ’l-yumn" ("with happiness") or "al-yumn" ("happiness"). The decorative aspect of the letters is clearly preeminent and goes to the detriment of their legibility, to the extent that the band might be regarded as a pseudo-inscription. However, such benedictory formulas were common on everyday objects of this period, such as pottery and metal.
Arrowhead (<i>Yanone</i>)
Object type: arrowhead i yanone i
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: steel
Culture: japanese
Location: japan

Although today Japanese warriors are renowned most for their swordsmanship, archery, especially from horseback, has been an essential part of samurai warfare and culture for centuries. Arrows were fitted with heads of varying shape according to their intended use in war, the hunt, or target practice. Arrowheads made for use on the battlefield incorporated different designs intended for specialized purposes such as the piercing of armor or to cause maximum damage to horses and unarmored personnel. Large arrowheads, pierced and elaborately chiseled with landscapes, birds, flowers, dragons, and Buddhist divinities, were created to be admired for the beauty of their metalwork and design rather than for use in archery. Such highly elaborate examples may have been made for presentation or as a votive offerings to a shrine.
Landschap met brug
Object type: drawing
Date: 1837 – 1886
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: maxime françois antoine lalanne
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1827 – 1886
Subjects: landscape with bridge, viaduct or aqueduct
Geboorte van de zoon van de Sunnemitische vrouw
Object type: print
Date: 1643 – 1643
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: birth of the son of the shunammite woman
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Op de voorgrond baart de Sunnemitische vrouw een gezonde zoon. Op de achtergrond links gaat ze met haar kind kijken naar de maaiers op het veld. De prent heeft een Latijns onderschrift en maakt deel uit van een serie over Elisa en de Sunnemitische vrouw.
Terminal or bead
Object type: terminal or bead
Date: 1000 – 1
Materials: gold foil
Culture: iranian
Location: iran
Fob
Object type: fob
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: linen, metal
Culture: french
Subjects: men
The Actor Nakamura Gentaro as a woman playing battledore and shuttlecock
Object type: print
Date: 1704 – 1704
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodblock print, sumizuri
Location: japan
Artist: torii kiyomasu i
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1704 – 1718
Star of Lemoyne Quilt
Object type: quilt
Date: 1835 – 1850
Materials: cotton

It is not difficult to appreciate why this quilt was a Finalist in the Chicago Evening American Quilt Contest of 1930, about one hundred years’ after it was made- proclaimed on a label still attached to its reverse. The quilt’s splendid palette is characterized by the predominant use of a single printed cotton. Its lush red, green and brown colors and otherworldly coral and seaweed-like motifs embody the technical adventurousness of textile printing in the 1820s, combining multiple stages of both block- and superimposed machine-printing. Though this cotton can be attributed to printers working in the United States, the quilt’s reverse is a wholecloth of cotton printed in Britain in the 1820s, with a high quality block printed design featuring peacocks, based on the work of the seventeenth-century artist, Francis Barlow.
Death of Cleopatra
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1540 – 1540
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: florence
Artist: follower of daniela da volterra
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1509 – 1566
In een net gevangen leeuw door vier mannen met stokken geslagen
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1693 – 1693
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: hunter fighting a lion

Illustratie uit: Duĳkerius, Johannes. Voorbeeldzels der oude wyzen. Waar in (...) de menschelijke hartstogten (...) behandeld worden. Amsterdam: Aart Wolsgrein, 1693, p. 563.
Letter to Yao Zhi
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1501 – 1583
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: chinese
Artist: wen jia
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: chinese
Artist dates: 1501 – 1583

In this letter, Wen Jia thanks his recently departed guest, Yao Zhi, for visiting the day before, and he expresses hope that the subsequent rainstorm did not cause Yao too much trouble. When they met, the two men must have discussed an exchange of art objects, because Wen teasingly continues the negotiations, asking for a little more than previously agreed upon. According to the text of Wen’s letter, it was delivered to Yao by personal messenger dispatched after the visit.
Gezichten op Alderney
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1898
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: daylight paper print
Location: england
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons, church (exterior), coast

Deze pagina maakt deel uit van een album.
Vogel en kaki
Object type: print
Date: 1900 – 1930
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: japan
Artist: ohara koson
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1877 – 1945
Subjects: birds, fruits
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tak met drie rode kaki vruchten, waarop vogeltje.
Hares and Roses
Object type: print
Date: 1783 – 1783
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing block, woodblock print, hashira
Location: japan
Artist: katsushika hokusai 葛飾 北斎
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Dauriac. Henri, Georges. 36 ans, né à Memphis (USA). Agent d'affaires. Extortion de fonds. 22/12/94.
Object type: mugshot
Date: 1894 – 1894
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: alphonse bertillon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1853 – 1914
Subjects: men,portraits

Born into a distinguished family of scientists and statisticians, Bertillon began his career as a clerk in the Identification Bureau of the Paris Prefecture of Police in 1879. Tasked with maintaining reliable police records of offenders, he developed the first modern system of police identification. The system, which became known as Bertillonage, had three components: anthropometric measurement, precise verbal description of the prisoner’s physical characteristics, and standardized photographs of the face. In the early 1890s Paris was subject to a wave of bombings and assassination attempts carried out by anarchist proponents of "propaganda of the deed." One of Bertillon’s greatest successes came in March 1892, when his system of identification led to the arrest of an anarchist bomber who went by the name Ravachol (2005.100.375.348). The publicity surrounding the case earned Bertillon the Legion of Honor and encouraged police departments around the world to adopt his anthropometric system.
Miss Sarotta, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
Object type: photograph
Date: 1889 – 1889
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: william s. kimball & company
Artist role: publisher
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the "Actresses" series (N203), issued in 1889 by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
Farms in a Village, plate eight after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)
Object type: print
Date: 1612 – 1612
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: claes jansz. visscher (ii)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1586 – 1652
Inscriptions: numbered lower right, in plate, "8"
Foot Soldier, France, 14th Century, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: military,men

Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.
Bord beschilderd met een borstbeeld van een vrouw
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1880 – 1940
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult woman (+ right side visible; right - (r. hand, r. foot, etc.)), dish, plate, saucer
Uncut Yardage (Ribbon)
Object type: textile
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: silk
Techniques: painting, weave
Location: china
Netsuke of Demon
Object type: netsuke
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: lacquer
Culture: japanese
Subjects: demons
Bokaal met deksel, met een driemaster en het opschrift: HET WEL VAREN VAN DE OOSTYNDYESE KOMPANIE
Object type: goblet
Date: 1725 – 1750
Materials: glass
Techniques: glassblowing
Location: germany
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘VOC’, inscription: ‘HET WEL VAREN VAN DE OOSTYNDYESE KOMPANIE’

Conische voet met omgeslagen rand. Balustervormige stam met drie knopen en luchtbellen. Trechtervormige kelk met afgeronde onderzijde. Op de kelk een driemaster op een gematteerde grond, geflankeerd door bladertakken. Op de keerzijde het monogram van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC, onder de inscriptie: HET WEL VAREN VAN DE OOSTYNDYESE KOMPANIE. Het glas in gelegateerd met deksel. Het deksel is echter niet oorspronkelijk.
Bruges. Le Beffroi
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1906 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: bruges
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc., tower, clock tower ~ monumental adornment
Waterloo Bridge (a sketch), from Old English Masters
Object type: print
Materials: chine, paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: united states
Artist: timothy cole
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1852 – 1931
Vignet met de letter W met een kroon
Object type: print
Date: 1836 – 1912
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: isaac weissenbruch
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1826 – 1912
Subjects: crown (symbol of sovereignty), fancy letters, vignette
Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)
Object type: mastoid fragment
Date: 534 – 468
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Below the rim, part of the head of a bearded male to right
Portret van een onbekende man met hoge muts
Object type: print
Date: 1746 – 1816
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: head-gear: cap (+ men's clothes), adult man
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1842)
Object type: medallion
Materials: bronze
Artist: pierre jean david d'angers
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1788 – 1856
Subjects: men,profiles

The German-born Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1842) was a composer who was famous as the inventor of grand opera.
Raccolta delle principali fontane dell'inclitta città di Roma
Object type: print
Date: 1637 – 1637
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Subjects: ornamental fountain
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Ende lib. No. 8 fol. 107./ Ende lib. No. 21. fol. 345./ Ende lib. No. 23. fol. 38.’, number: ‘46’, inscription: ‘Ende lib. No. 8 fol. 92./ Ende lib. No. 21. fol. 206./ Ende lib. No. 23. fol. 257.’

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een reeks van ten minste 20 prenten (+ titelprent) van fonteinen in Rome.
Man die op een stok leunt
Object type: print
Date: 1657 – 1679
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: hendrik bary
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1640 – 1707
Subjects: the poor
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een arme man op de rug gezien, leunend op een stok. Onder de voorstelling een vers van vier regels in het Nederlands.
Mary, Queen of Scots, Under Confinement
Object type: print
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: england
Artist: william ward
Artist role: engraver
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1766 – 1826
Subjects: queens,women,mary queen of scots
Gebreide witte kous voor pop
Object type: doll's clothing
Date: 1850 – 1920
Materials: textile
Techniques: knitting
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘M’, number: ‘RBK 15443’
Gezicht op een slachtplaats bij Bethanië, het tegenwoordige Al-Eizariya
Object type: page
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: paper
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: west bank
Artist: johannes lodewijk heldring
Artist role: fotograaf, predikant, schrijver
Artist dates: 1852 – 1923
Subjects: butcher, slaughterman
Overlijdensbericht aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: overlijdensbericht, overlijdensadvertentie
Date: 1906 – 1906
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: the hague, painter, print maker, draughtsman, hendrik willem mesdag, pieter de josselin de jong, voorburg, frits jansen, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Card Table
Object type: card table
Date: 1740 – 1760
Materials: wood
Culture: american
Location: united states

The form of this table is most unusual. The table top is in two pieces: one a drop leaf, the other lifting up to provide access to a storage well, presumably for storing card-playing accoutrements. While it is possible for the entire top to be vertical, the lack of any device to support the upper half in an upright position shows that the table was not intended to be stored in a corner. The table is unquestionably from Rhode Island, not only because of its Newport provenance, but also because of its unmistakable Newport features, especially the use of dense, purple-hued mahogany and maple as a secondary wood.
Gezicht op een meer vanaf de bosrand
Object type: print
Date: 1850 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, drypoint, etching
Location: france
Artist: eugène bléry
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1805 – 1887
Subjects: watermill in landscape - ii - ideal landscapes, rock-formations - hh - ideal landscapes, lake
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2166
The Age of Bronze (L'Age d'airain)
Object type: statue
Materials: bronze
Artist: auguste rodin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1840 – 1917
Subjects: male nudes

Also known as The Bronze Age, The Age of Brass, The Vanquished (Le Vaincu), The Age of Man, L'Homme des Premiers Ages or l'Homme qui s'éveille.
Oude Waal met de wasinrichting van de gezusters Veltkamp
Object type: print
Date: 1912 – 1912
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, etching
Artist: willem witsen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1923
Subjects: urban housing
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘derde staat’
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1911 – 1930
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Artist: rose imel
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1901 – 
Subjects: painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Portret van Frederik Willem I van Brandenburg
Object type: print
Date: 1660 – 1700
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: berlin, frederik willem van brandenburg (i), armour, historical persons
Plate
Object type: plate
Date: 1780 – 1780
Materials: glaze, porcelain
Culture: japanese
Subjects: flowers
Venus en Amor
Object type: print
Date: 1566 – 1566
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: italy
Subjects: landscapes, venus and cupid (cupid not being mere attribute)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Amor en de naakte Venus in omhelzing in een landschap.
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 460 – 450
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, hair of woman to left
Pair of Rowel Spurs
Object type: spur
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: metal alloy, silver
Culture: mexican
Location: mexico
Sectional Docks
Object type: print
Date: 1860 – 1915
Techniques: engraving
Artist: elbridge kingsley
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1841 – 1918
Subjects: ships
Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Eight parts of kylix handles, right half, with crosspiece
In 't Potsdammer park. Kont Bijou, paleis van de grooten keurvorst van voren gezien. Oct 1903
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1903 – 1903
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: hamburg
Artist: geldolph adriaan kessler (dolph)
Artist role: fotograaf, industrieel, voetballer
Artist dates: 1884 – 1945
Subjects: potsdam
Landscape with Willow Trees
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: surimono, woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: ryūryūkyo shinsai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1799 – 1823
Subjects: landscapes,trees
Achterstraat te Culemborg
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1849 – 1895
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: culemborg
Artist: willem koekkoek
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1839 – 1895
Subjects: stall, booth (~ market), street
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘achterstraat te Kuilenburg/ 1 ziel met groenstalletje/ 2 gekalkt’

Op de straat staat een kar en een groentestal. Blad 18 verso uit een schetsboek met 42 bladen.
Bit Boss
Object type: bit bos
Date: 1667 – 1733
Materials: copper alloy, gold
Culture: european

Bit bosses were ornamental elements decorating both sides of a horse bit. This type of boss, with a classical decoration featuring scrolls and flowers circled by a leaf garland, was very popular in Western Europe around 1700.
Gezelschap dansend in een huiskamer
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1934 – 1935
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: group dancing, private festivities, merry company, netherlands
Horloge astronomique in de Notre-Dame van Straatsburg
Object type: photograph
Date: 1876 – 1886
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: notre-dame
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: astronomical instruments
Staff
Object type: staff
Date: 1550 – 1295
Materials: wood
Location: egypt
De weg naar Christus
Object type: design
Date: 1550 – 1574
Materials: chalk, ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Artist: dirck pietersz. crabeth
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1520 – 1574
Subjects: adult christ ~ abstract conceptions, 'imitatio christi', vice, evil, sin; 'peccato' (ripa), doctrine on original sin, and redemption

Tussen Johannes de Doper en Trouw (een vrouw met een kelk), vraagt een naakte man aan Christus, die het kruis afdaald met op zijn rug de duivel, verschillende mensen en een lijk, om hem het rechte pad te wijzen. Ontwerp voor een glasruit.
Portret van Johannes Augusta
Object type: print
Date: 1752 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: prague
Subjects: prague, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Epiphanius, from "Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum"
Object type: print
Date: 1593 – 1594
Techniques: engraving
Artist: maerten de vos
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1532 – 1603
Subjects: men,trees,bishops
Dish
Object type: dish
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: glaze, porcelain
Culture: chinese
Copper Pole Top Ornament
Object type: finial
Date: 1101 – 1500
Materials: copper
Techniques: casting
Culture: chimú
Location: peru
Homeward Bound: "The Great Eastern"
Object type: painting
Date: 1866 – 1866
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: robert charles dudley
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1826 – 1909
Subjects: boats,ships,transatlantic cable
Geseling van Christus
Object type: print
Date: 1627 – 1661
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: flagellation by soldiers, christ usually tied to a column (matthew 27:26; mark 15:15; john 19:1)

Christus is vast gebonden aan een halfhoge zuil in het huis van Pilatus. Hij wordt door drie soldaten geslagen met geselriemen en roedes. Linksachter en rechts staan groepen soldaten naar de marteling te kijken. Onder de voorstelling het bijbelvers Joh. 19:1 in het Latijn en Nederlands.
La princesse Giselle et le marin Sinbad / De prinses Gisella en de Sinbad, de scheepsman
Object type: print
Date: 1833 – 1911
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph, letterpress printing
Location: turnhout
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: monsters of the sea, princess, tales and fairy tales, seaman: sailor
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 12 voorstellingen over prinses Gisella en Sinbad de zeeman. Onder elke afbeelding een onderschrift in het Nederlands en in het Frans. Genummerd midden boven: N. 265.
Musketeer, from Officers and Soldiers of the Bodyguard of Emperor Rudolph II
Object type: print
Date: 1587 – 1587
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: jacques de gheyn (ii)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1565 – 1629
Inscriptions: Lettered lower left: "6. HG. excud. IDGeyn sculp."; and below image: "Avertunt frandem mea ... nostra dolos."
Drapery Study
Object type: drawing
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: chalk
Artist: anonymous, italian, florentine, second half of the 16th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1550 – 1600
Subjects: men
Afbeelding der Vreugdebedryven en Plegtigheden die by de aankomst en gedurende het verblyf (...) Willem (...) en zyne Gemaalinne (...) zyn voorgevallen te Amsterdam, op maandag, den 30 Mey, en eenige volgende dagen, des jaars 1768
Object type: print
Date: 1769 – 1773
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: the hague, william v (prince of orange), berlin, painter, draughtsman, wilhelmina of prussia (princess of orange)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Stadhouder Willem V neemt als kapitein admiraal generaal zitting in het college van de Admiraliteit te Amsterdam, op 31 mei 1768. Onderdeel van een prentserie met titelprent en 14 platen van de inhaling van de prins en prinses te Amsterdam, 30 mei - 4 juni 1768.
Olieveld in Signal Hill, Californië met boortorens
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1914 – 1934
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: californië
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Pub. By the M. Kashower Co., Los Angeles, Cal.’, inscription: ‘284:-Signal Hill, California. / 17692’
Incised bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 600 – 301
Materials: ceramic, pigment
Culture: paracas
Location: peru
Irises
Object type: painting
Date: 1914 – 1917
Materials: canvas, oil, paint
Techniques: painting
Location: france
Artist: claude monet
Artist role: painter
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1840 – 1926
Subjects: irises, flowers, green (color), blue, blue (color), purple (color), foliage, landscapes, water
Inscriptions: Stamped lower right: Claude Monet

Approximately six and a half feet square, Irises is one of a series of large paintings Claude Monet undertook during World War I experimenting with familiar motifs on an ever-expanding scale. Lacking a discernible horizon or clear sense of depth, the viewer is both on top of and submerged in this encrusted and disorienting surface, suggestive of water, on which various vegetal and floral forms float.

Together with other related canvases, this work remained in the artist’s Giverny studio long after his death in 1926 and was only rediscovered in the 1950s, having suffered localized damage by shrapnel from shells during World War II. In 1956 the Art Institute’s pioneering curator of modern art, Katherine Kuh, bought this painting from Katia Granoff's gallery in Paris. Kuh recognized a formal affinity between Monet’s late experimental painting and the public’s growing interest in large-scale, abstract works like those by Jackson Pollock, whose Greyed Rainbow entered the Art Institute’s collection in 1955.