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Austria
c. 25,000-20,000 BCE
Stone
4 3/8" high -
Cave painting, left wall, Lascaux, Dordogne, France. 15000-10000 BCE
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Paleolithic Cave Painting
Altamira caves, Spain
15,000-8,000 BCE -
Reindeer antler
4.2" high
Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France -
from the Acacus Mountains, Western Libya
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found at Çatal Hüyük, Anatolia (modern Turkey)
Terra-cotta
7.9" high -
Corner installation of Building 77
Anatolio, Turkey
6,000-5,000 BCE -
County Meath, Ireland. Neolithic.
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Monolithic structure.
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wood, gold, and shell inlay
5'5" high -
IMHOTEP
Saqqarah, Egypt -
IMHOTEP
Saqqarah, Egypt
2650-2631 BCE -
Gizeh, Egypt. Pyramids made for the pharaohs. Menkaure, c. 2525- 2475BCE; Khafre, c. 2575-2525 BCE; Khufu, 2600-2550 BCE.
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5th dynasty
2500-2400 BCE
painted limestone
21" high -
Cycladic Islands off mainland Greece
2500-2300 BCE
Marble
30" high
The Ashmolean Museum
Oxford, UK -
third dynasty of ur, Iraq
2150-2050 BCE -
Wiltshire, England
2000 BCE
Diameter: 97'
upright stones with lintel: 24' high -
Bamileke people, Cameroon, Africa
Late 19th century
Beads on a cloth foundation, gourd, cowrie shells
23 1/2" high
Collection of the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA -
Susa (modern Shush, Iran)
1792-1750 BCE
Detail showing the kind standing before the sun god and god of justice Shamash, who commanded Hammurabi to record the law
Relief
28" high -
Mionan
from the place at Knossos
c. 1600 BCE
Glazed earthenware
13.5" high
Archeological Museum, Herakloin -
Crete, c. 1550-1450 BCE. Wall painting, 24 1/2" high. Palace complex at Knossos.
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Deir el- Bahri, Egypt, c. 1490- 1460 BCE.
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Thebes Egypt, c. 1400-1350 BCE. Paint on dry plaster, approx. 32" high. Wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun. The British Museum, London.
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Egypt, c. 1350 BCE. Portrait bust, approx. 1' 8" high. Aegyptisches Museum, Berlin Germany.
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Thebes, Egypt. Gold inlaid with enamel and semiprecious stones, 6' 1" long. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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19th Dynasty
1275-1235 BCE
65' high -
Norway, early 9th century. Oak, 65' long. Form the Oseberg ship buriel, Viking Ship Muesum, Oslo.
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Agesander, Athenodorus, Greece, late 2nd-early 1st century BCE. Marble, 7' 10" high. Vatican Museums, Rome.
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Khorsabad, Iraq, 720 BCE. Limestone, 14' high.
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60" high
Limestone reliefe -
Etruria (Italy). Painted tera-cotta, 45 1/2" tall. From cemetery near Cerveteri. Museo Nationale di Villa Giulia, Rome
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520-510 BCE
Greek hydria
"AD" Painter
Ceramic
20 3/4" high
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -
Saqqara, Egypt
Late 26th Dynasty
6th Century BCE
Gray stone
base: 11 1/2" x 43 1/4" height of cow to horns: 33"
Cairo Museum, Egypt -
DOURIS
Slip on clay
13" diameter
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna -
Etruria (Italy), c. 480-470 BCE. Mural painting from the tomb of the Leopards in a cemetery near Tarquinia.
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Greece
460-450 BCE
Bronze
6'10" high
National Archeological Museum, Athens -
Polykeitos, Rome, c. 450-440 BCE. Marble after a bronze orginal, 6' 11" high. Museo Nazionale, Naples.
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IKTINOS AND KALLIKRATES
Athens, Greece
447-432 BCE
Pentelic marble
columns 34' high
dimensions of structure 228' x 104' -
from the Parthenon frieze
Athens, Greece
440 BCE
Marble
42" high -
Athena right; Propylaea left
MNESICLES
437-432 BCE
Athens -
Erechtheum, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
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Athens, Greece, c. 410-400 BCE. Marble relief, 5' 2" high. From the Dipylon cemetery.
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Polykleitos, Greece, c. 350 BCE. Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
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Fragments. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome, c. 330 C.E.
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Moche Civilization, Peru, c. 300. Gold and Silver necklace from the Royale tomeb of sipan, 20" diameter. Museo Archeologico Nacional Bruning de Lambayeque, Peru.
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column erected by Ashoka at Sarnath, India
polished sandstone
approx. 7' high
Archeological Museum, Sarnath -
Egypt
237-257 BCE
Pylons: 118' high
Façade: 230' wide
West side of Nile River -
Shaanxi, China, 221-206 BCE. Painted ceramic; average figure height, 5' 9". Near the tomb of Shi Huangi.
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in pits next to his burial mound
Lintong, China
Qin Dynasty
Painted terra-cotta
average figure 5'10" high -
Construction began during the Qin Dynasty in 206 BCE, with Major work occurring during the Ming Dynasty, 1386-1644. Brick faced, average height 25', 1,500 miles long.
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Rome
Bronze, approx. 11.6" high
Musei Capitolini, Rome -
Pompeii, Italy
First built in 2nd century BCE
Interior looking out into internal garden
reconstructed -
Rome, Italy, 81 CE. Marble on concrete, 50' high, 40' wide.
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Rome, 70-82 CE.
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Rome, 13-9 BCE. Marble; outer wall, 34' 5" X 38" X 23'
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Dong son Civilization, Vietnam
3rd-1st BCE
Bronze
24.5" x 31"
From Tanh Hoa
Musee des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet, Paris, France -
Cave Painting of Tassili n'Ajjer
2nd mill. BCE
Henri Lhote Collection
Musse de l'Homme, Paris, France -
Roman
1st Century BCE
Ceramic
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples -
Roman
1st Century
found in the Mt. Vesuvius region of Italy
Fresco wallpainting
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples -
MARIA MARTINEZ
Undated
Blackware
6.75" x 9.5"
Gift of International Machines Business Corporation
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC -
undated
Baga, Guinea
Wood, shells, and rafia
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France -
the former summer palace of the Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, Lhasa, Tibet
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Wood
Private Collection -
Temple of Bayon
complex of Angkor Thom, Angkor, Cambodia -
Palace of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacán, Mexico
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Mayan
Guatemala
250 BCE - CE 100
Ceramic Vessel
10" x 7 1/2" x 6 3/4" -
Sanchi, India
3rd century BCE - 1st century CE
Dome, 50' high
Robert Harding Picture Library -
Early 1st century CE
marble
65" high -
Enamel inlay, gilt, gems, and other materials
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Villa of Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy
c. CE 50
Fresco -
Eastern Han Dynasty, China
25-220 CE
Ceramic
52" x 33" x 27"
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri -
Rome
100-112 CE -
Ostia, 110-130. Marble relief, approx. 20" high. Vatican Musuem, Rome.
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Rome, Italy
118-125
Concrete and marble
142' from floor to opening in dome -
Teotihuacán, Mexico
768' long at base -
Egypt
237-257 BCE
roof slabs: 50' from the floor -
Syria
245-256 CE
Interior, with wall paintings of biblical themes
National Museum, Damascus -
Hammath near Tiberias
4th century
Mosaic
Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem -
Bamiya, Afghanistan
4th or 5th century CE
demolished March 2001
165' high -
Nazca Lines, Peru
200-600
Henri Stierlin -
Athens, Greece
c. 447-432 BCE
from the east pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis
Marble
Approx. 3'6"
British Museum, London -
Zhou Dynasty, China
c. 6th Century BCE
Cast Bronze
5 3/4" high -
Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India
late 5th - early 6th centuries
Sandstone
63" high
Sarnath Museum -
Longmen, Luoyang, Valley of the Yellow River, China
600-650
Natural Rock Carving
50' high -
Japan
rebuilt every 20 years -
Jerusalem
687-692 -
View
dating back to 700 CE
one of the many caves at Ajanta dating back to 700 CE
Maharashtra, India -
Lambityeco, Oaxaca, Mexico
640-755
Stucco
10 1/2" x 11 1/2" -
Classic Maya
From a palace at Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico
Relief -
interior
Cordoba, Spain -
late classic period
800-900
Clay
8 1/2" high -
Chichen Itza, Mexico, 11th-13th centuries. 567' X 228", I shaped, Maya-Toltec
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Second half of the 10th Century
Hindu
Banteay Srei, Cambodia
detail of red sandstone carving -
Anasazi, New Mexico
11th century -
Khajuraho, India
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Naltunai Isvaram Temple, Punjai, India
c. 1000
Bronze -
Mexico, 11th-13th centuries. Vase painting. Maya.
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Khajuraho, India
10th-11th centuries
one of thirty temples at this site, dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, or Mahavira
Main tower: 130' high -
Peru
c. 1000-1250
Ceramic
Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera, Lima, Peru -
Huastec
Tuxpan (Veracruz), Mexico
1000-1200
Limestone
33" high -
China
Song Dynasty
c. 1100
Painted wood
7'11" high
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City -
ZHANG ZEDUAN
late 11th-early 12th centuries
handscroll, ink on silk
10" x 207" -
900-1300
1,400' long -
Central Temple Complex
Cambodia
1113-1150 CE -
Gislebertus, France. Stone Carving, 21' wide, 12' high.
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believed to be 1185-1204
Mosaic tile -
Japan
Kamakura period
Daitokuji Temple
Kyoto
*this artwork is meant to provide spiritual experience, but it is framed within Japanese culture and the spiritual tradition of Buddhism -
China
13th century
hanging scroll
Painting on silk
50.4" x 30.7"
Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin -
MU-QI
Southern Song Dynasty
Dailoxu-ji, Kyoto
13th century
ink on paper
14 1/4" wide -
Mali, Africa
13th century -
From the Heiji Monogatari, hand scroll (detail), Japan, kamakura period, late 13th century. Ink on color on paper, 16 1/4" high, 22' 9" long.
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Chartres, France
1145-1220
South tower: 377' high
Cathedral: 427' long -
MA YUAN
early 13th century
10' high -
Mosan (Belgium, c. 1230. Silver over oak: bronze-gilt; applique plaques: silver-gilt,niello, and cabochon stones; 25 1/2" X 6 1/2" X 4". The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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from the Chartres Cathedral
France -
Cahokia, Illinois, USA
1200-1400
Ceramic effigy vessel
Mississippian Period
St. Louis Science Center -
Rome, early 14th century. Ceiling painting from a cubiculum, fresco.
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Italy, 1338-1339. Fresco. Sala della pace, Palazzo Publico, Siena
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Moai Statue
15th Century
volcanic tufa
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) Polynesia -
c. 15th century
Eathenware and plaster
66 7/8" x 46.5" x 21 5/8"
Aztec, Museo Templo Mayor, Mexico -
LORENZO GHIBERTI
Florence, Italy
1401-1402
Gilden bronze
21" x 17.5"
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence -
MASACCIO
Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy
Fresco -
Peru, Inca, 1430-1532. Ethnologisches Muesum, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany .
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Flanders, Northern Europe
c. 1432-1433
Oil on panel
7 1/4" x 4 3/4"
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria -
JAN VAN EYCK
Flanders, Northern Europe
oil on wood panel
32" x 25"
National Gallery Collection, London -
from the Codex Mendoza
Mexico
Bodleian Library
University of Oxford -
Aztec
ca. 1440-1469
Clay and pigment
13" x 13" x 12.5"
Museo Templo Mayor, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico -
PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA
Tempera on wood
18.5" x 13"
Uffizi Florence, Italy -
SANDRO BOTTICELLI
Italy
Tempera on canvas
approx. 5'8" x 9'1"
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence -
Andrea Del Verrocchio. Italy, c. 1483-1488. Bronze, 15' high. Campo Ss. Giovanni e paolo, Venice.
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LEONARDO DI VINCI
Pen and ink on paper
13.5" x 9.66"
Galleria dell' Accademia, Venice -
Leonardo Da Vinci. 1495-1498, Experimental paint on plaster, 14'5"X28'. Milan, Italy
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detail of a screen depicting the popular festivities that took plave at Shijo-gawa, Kyoto
Late Muromachi period
16th century
Seikado Library, Tokyo -
Bukhara, Iran
first quarter of the 16th Century
Gouache, gold hilights
Photo: Hervé Lewandowski
Louvre, Paris, France -
16th century
Ivory
17" high
Afro-Portuguese
Sherbro Peninsula (Bulom), Sierra Leone -
Early 16th century. Detail depicting Quetzalcoatl and Texacatlipoca. painted on vellum, 39 cm X 40 cm. Aztec.
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Tibet
c. 16th century
water-based pigments on cotton cloth
23" x 18" -
Beijing, China
begun 1420, restored 1754
wood with the tile roof -
Michelangelo, Italy, 1501-1504. Marble, 14' 3" high. Galleria dell'Accademai, Florence.
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Westminister Abbey, London, England, 1503-1519.
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LEONARDO DI VINCI
Italy
c. 1503 - 1506
currently displayed behind bulletproof glass
Oil on wood
30.25" x 21"
Louvre, Paris -
RAPHAEL
Italy
Panel painting
44 1/2" x 34 1/4"
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna -
MICHELANGELO
Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace
1508-1512
restoration completed in 1989
Fresco
Detail of the Sistine Ceiling -
MICHAELANGELO
The Vatican, Rome, Italy
1508-1512
Fresco
approx. 128' x 45' -
MATTHIAS GRÜNEWALD
Germany
c. 1510-1515
Oil on wood center panel; CRUCIFIXION
9' 9.5" x 10'9"
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France -
ALBRECHT DURER
Engraving
9 5/8" x 7.5"
Musee du Petit Palais, Paris, France
Bridegman-Giraudon -
Aztec
Quetzal and cotinga feathers, gold plaques
45.5" x 69"
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria -
ROSSO FIORENTINO
1530-1540
5" x 9.5"
British Museum, London -
TITIAN (TIZIANO VECELLO)
oil on canvas
4' x 5'6"
Uffizi, Florence, Italy -
Tabriz, Iran
1539-1543
Made for Tahmasp
Safavid Dynasty
British Liberty, London, Great Britain -
ANDREAS VESALIUS OF BRUSSELS
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ANDREA PALLADIO
Vicenza, Italy -
Exterior
Moscow
1555-1561 -
GIORGIO VASARI
built between 1570 and 1572
Studiolo, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence -
BISHNDAS
Manuscript painting
gold and gauche on paper
8 3/4" x 5 3/4" -
JAGANATH
from the Hadiqat Al-Haqiqat (The Garden of Truth) by Hakim Sana'i Mughal
1599-1600
First Miniature, folio 15
Pen and ink on paper -
17th century
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India -
17th century
Ceramic
Satsuma ware
4 2/5" diameter at mouth -
Momoyama Period
16th-17th centuries
six-fold screen, color on paper
62" high -
JAN BRUEGEL
1607-1608
Oil on Panel
23.75" x 16.5" -
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
1612-1613
Oil on canvas
62.5" x 49.5"
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy -
PETER PUAL RUBENS
oil on canvas
7'3" x 6'10"
Munich -
Isfahan, Iran
1612-1637
110' high -
Gianlorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, 1624-1633. Gilded bronze, 100' high.
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SHENG MAOYE
1625-1640
ink and color on silk
11 1/4" x 12" -
Agra, India, 1632-1654
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Jan Davidsz. Netherlands. Oil on canvas 58 7/8" X 79 9/10". Louvre, Paris.
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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
c.1642
Oil on canvas
11'11" x 14'4"
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands -
GIANLORENZO BERNINI
1645-1652
Marble, stucco, paint, natural light; central marble figures
As illustrated by an anonymous 18th-century painting from the Italian School
11'6" high
in the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
Painting located in the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, Germany -
DIEGO VELAZQUEZ
Oil on canvas
approx. 10'5" x 9' -
JAN VERMEER VAN DELFT
oil on canvas
17" x 15" -
Rembrant Van Rijn, Ntherlands. Oil on canvas, 23 1/4" X 20". The Hague, Mauritshuis.
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Lahore, Pakistan
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Tibet
mid-17th to early 18th century
Distemper (pigments mixed with egg yolk, egg white, and/or size) on cloth
72 3/8" x 46 5/8"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -
Versailles, France, c. 1680
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NICOLAS RENE JOLLAIN THE ELDER
1661-1715
Oil on canvas
87" x 65"
Chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles, France -
Hawaii, 18th century. Museo de America, Madrid Spain
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Turkey
eighteenth century
White mihrab with two Turkish floral columns
wool
65.75" high x 48.75 width
Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst, Vienna -
ANDREA BUFFALINI
construction finished in 1713
Dubrovnik, Croatia -
FRANÇOIS DE CUVILLIÈS
Germany
1734-1739 -
William Hogart, England. Oil on canvas, 28" X 36". National Gallery, London.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Fromle Carceri. Etching
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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH
oil on canvas
27.5" x 47"
National Gallery, London -
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD
Oil on canvas
35" x 32" -
Kangra, India
Gouache on paper
4.8" x 6.75"
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain -
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
France
Oil on canvas
10'10" x 14"
Louvre, Paris -
KITAGAWA UTAMARO
frontispiece from Poem of the Pillow
Japan
Wood block relief print
9 3/4" x 14 3/4"
Victoria & Albert Museum, London -
Exterior last renovated in 1960
Frequently redesigned, expanded, and restored under architects William Thorton, Stephen H. Hallat, George Hadfield, James Hoban, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch, Thomas U. Walter, Edward Clark, and J. George Stewart.
Terracing by Frederick Law Olmstead -
KITAGAWA UTAMARO
Multicolor woodblock print
15" x 10" -
Kuba, Central Zaiew
19th-20th centuries
Wood, beads, shells, cloth
head-sized
Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren -
Japan
Edo Period
School of Yokohama
19th Century
color woodblock print
Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet, Paris -
China
19th century
embroidered silk
private selection -
ANDO OR UTAGWA HIROSHIGE
Kagowatashi, Hida Province
19th century
Woodblock print
13.5" x 9"
Leeds Museums and Galleries (City Art Gallery), United Kingdom -
(Reliquary Gaurdian Figure), from tje Kota region ofgabon, Africa. Likely 19th-20 century. Wood, metal.
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As reconstructed in the hand- colored engraving of a 19th- century illustration.
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China
late 18th century, early 19th century
Qing dynasty
silk, metallic thread on silk
12 1/8" x 12 1/8"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Paris, France, opened 1804.
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Tama Iowa, USA, c. 1860. Otter pelt, grizzly claws, glass beads, silk ribbon, 16 1/4" long, 14 1/4"
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JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES
France
Oil on canvas
35" x 64"
Louvre, Paris, France -
Francisco Goya, Spain. Oil on canvas, 104 3/4" X 135 3/4". Prado, Madrid.
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THÉODORE GÉRICAULT
Oil on Canvas
16'1" x 24'1"
Louvre, Paris -
Austral Islands
collected in 1820
Wood
44" high
The British Museum, London -
USA, c. 1820. Ottawa. Wood, inlaid metal. 23 1/2" X 8".
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JOHN CONSTABLE
Oil on canvas
4'3" x 6'2" -
Eugene Delacroix, France. Oil on Cnavas, approximatley 8'6" X 10'8" Louvre, Paris.
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Crandon, Wisconsin
1800-1860
Wood and wool fabric
9" high -
Edward Hicks. USA, 1830-1840. Oil on canvas. 17 7'16" X 23 9/16". Brooklyn Museum Art.
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1820-1850
sperm whale tooth
6 1/2" long -
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
1827-1838
29 1/2" x 21 1/4"
Watercolor -
Honore Daumier, France. Lithograph; image: 11 1/8" X 18 1/8"
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SIR ROBERT SIDNEY SMIRKE
London
1823-1847
Portico, south façade -
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER
oil on canvas
35 1/4" x 48" -
Charles Barry and A. W. Pugin. London, 1840-1860. 940' long.
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UTAGAWA KUNISADA
c. 1849-1853
woodblock print
14" x 9.5"
Burrell Collection, Glasgow -
Cook Islands
Polynesia
c 1800-1900s
Wood
27 3/8" high
The British Museum, London -
Bamana, Mali, Africa
19th-20th centuries
wood, copper, beads, and metal
20.5" high
Detroit Institute of Arts, USA -
England, 1852. Oil on canvas, 30" X 44"
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ca. 1855
2 3/4" x 2 3/16"
The Rubel Collection, Partial and promised gift of William Rubel, 2001
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, New York City, USA, 1857-1887.
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EDWARD MANET
France
Oil on canvas
51 1/4" x 74 3/4" Musée d'Orsay, Paris -
Navajo, Arizona, United States
1860-1870
Wool
67.5" x 49"
Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910 -
Mathew B. Brady USA, 1865. Civil War photograph.
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PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR
Oil on canvas
51" x 68" -
EDGAR DEGAS
pastel on paper
27 5/8" x 27.75"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
Moari meeting house
RAHARUHI PUKUPO and others
carved and painted wood
New Zealand -
GEORGES SEURAT
1884-1886
oil on canvas
6'9" x 10' -
PAUL GAUGUIN
oil on canvas
28.75" x 36.25"
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow -
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Oil on canvas
23.5" x 19.5"
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome -
Clamshell disks, red woodpecker feathers, quail topnots, tree materials, 7" diameter. Pomo Tribe. 1890-1910.
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Vincent Van Gogh, Netherlands. Oil on canvas, 26 1/4" X 22".
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Edvard Munch, Norway. Oil paiting, 35 3/4" X 29". National Gallery, Oslo, Norway.
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MARY CASSATT
Pastel on Paper
21" x 17.75"
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France -
Henri DE Toulouse-Lautrec. France, 1899. Lithographic poster, 22" X 14".
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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Lithographic poster
22" x 14" -
Akan Culture
1900s
Asante Kingdom, Ghana
Wood, gold leaf
65.5" high -
the Yoruba god of thunder, furnished with figures of women devotees
20th century
Oroko wood
Average 30" high
Collection of Oba Laoye II, Temi of Ede, Nigeria -
Middle Sepik
Papua New Guinea
possibly by the Arambak culture
20th century
Cane, other plant fibers, cassoway feather, mud, and paint
47" x 27" x 23.5"
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas USA -
Performance on stage
Japan
20th century -
Decorated façade
Sumatra, Indonesia
c 19th - 20th centuries -
Ghana, Africa
c. 20th Century
Wood
13" high
The British Museum, London -
Kwakiutl, British Columbia
20th Century
Painted Wood -
Slei
Middle Sepik Region
Papua New Guinea
c. 20th century
Palm leaves on a bamboo frame painted with earth pigments
44" x 61 1/2"
Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland -
Buepis Village
19th-20th century
wood and paint
approx. 16' high -
BEADWORKERS OF THE ADESINA FAMILY OF EFON-ALAYE
Nigeria
20th century
Yoruba -
CLAUDE MONET
Oil on canvas
35" x 39 3/4" -
20th century
paint on bark
51" x 32" -
stage performance
20th century -
KEVIN LOCKE
performance
20th century -
Mali
20th century
Dogon -
PAUL GAUGUIN
Monotype
12.5" x 20"
British Museum, London -
Germany, Etching, 20 " X 23 1/4"
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LOUIS H. SULLIVAN
Chicago, IL -
PAUL CEZANNE
Oil on Canvas
23.5" x 28.25"
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow -
Djenne, Mali
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PABLO PICASSO
Spain/France
Oil on canvas
8'x7'8"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
JOSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA
pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper
zinc etching
University of New Mexico -
ARTHUR SHAUGHNESSY
Kwakiutl
Carved and Painted red cedar
180" x 132" x 34" -
Olowe of Ise, Ikere, Nigeria, 1910-1914. Yoruba. Wood and pigment, 60" X 13 1/4".
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Lewis Hine. USA. Photograph, 8 1/2" X 11". university o Maryland Library, college park, maryland
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WASSILY KANDINSKY
underglass painting with ink and color
13.25" x 17.5"
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris -
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
oil on canvas
32" x 25"
MaRT (Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e) Rovereto, Italy -
MARCEL DUCHAMP
oil on canvas
57 7/8" x 35 1/8" -
1540-1300 BCE
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MARC CHAGALL
Russia/France
1915-1920
Oil on canvas
26 1/2" x 36 1/2"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
HANNAH HOCH
1919-1920
Photomontage
3'9" x 2'11"
Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin -
FERNAND LÉGER
Oil on canvas
91" x 117.5" -
PAUL KLEE
drawing and oil on paper
12.25" x 9.25" -
JOSEPH STELLA
silverpoint on paper
24.25" x 18.75"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
GEORGIA O'KEEFE
USA
Oil on canvas
48" x 30"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Diego Rivera, Mexico, 1923. Fresco, detail showing the city. South wall, Court of the Fiesta, Ministry of Education, Mexico City.
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CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI
Romania
Polished brass
18" high
Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC -
Sergei M. Eisenstein. Russia, 1925. Film stills.
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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
Oil on canvas
9" x 12.75"
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC -
JAMES VANDERZEE
USA
Black and White photograph -
Edward Weston. Photograph. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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SIMON RODIA
1921-1954
Reinforced concrete with mixed media and found materials
100' high -
SALVADOR DALI
Oil on canvas
9 1/2" x 13" -
FRANK KING
Newspaper Sunday page
23" x 17" -
JOSÉ CLEMENTE OROZCO
1932-1934
Fresco
126" x 176" -
Germany. Film. Kobal Collection.
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MERET OPPENHEIM
Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon
Cup, 4 3/8" diameter; Saucer, 9 3/8" diameter; Spoon, 8" long; overall height, 2 7/8"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
DOROTHEA LANGE
Gelatin silver print -
PABLO PICASSO
etching aquatint and drypoint
plate: 27 1/8" x 19.5"; sheet: 30 5/16" x 22 5/16"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
1936-1938
Kaufmann House, Connellsville vicinity, Pennsylvania -
Pablo Picasso. Spain, 1937. Oil on canvas, 11' X 28' 8". Prado Museum, Madrid.
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David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexico. Enamel on wood, 48" X 36". Muesum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
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1495-1505
wool warp, wool, silk, silver, and gift wefts
12'1" x 8'3" -
Olowe of Ise
Yoruba
Wood, pigment, 71" high
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -
Frida Khalo, Mexico. Oil on masnite, 16" 12". Albright-Knox Art gallery, Buffalo, NY.
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MGM film starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara
Copyright Metro Goldwyn Mayer -
JOAN MIRÓ
Gouache and oil wash on paper
18" x 15"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
Roberto Matta-Echaurren. Oil on canvas, 29 1/2" X 37 7/8".
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EDWARD HOPPER
Oil on canvas
33" x 60"
Art Institute of Chicago -
JIMMIE KEWANWYTEWA
Hopi
Third Mesa, Oraibi
Cottonwood, paint, feathers, wool
13" high
Museum of Northern Arizona -
Frank Lloyd Wright, New York City, USA, began in 1943.
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performance
Mexico -
ANSEL ADAMS
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Jackson Pollock, USA. Oil, aluminum paint, and enamel on canvas, approx. 3' 5" X 8' 9".
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Late 20th Century
Democratic Republic of Congo -
HENRI MATISSE
1950-1951
stained glass
Chapel of the Rosary, Vence, France -
New Guinea, Irian Jaya
Asmat people, Omandesep
mid 20th-century
The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockfeller, 1979
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -
Painted wood, lizard skin, rattan
45" high -
JAMES HAMPTON
gold and silver aluminum foil, kraft paper, and plastic over wood furniture, paperboard, and glass
180 pieces in all
overall configuration: 10.5' x 27' x 14.5'
Smithsonian American Art Musuem, Washington DC -
LE CORBUSIER
Ronchamps, France
1950-1955 -
JASPER JOHNS
1954-1955
encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood
42.25" x 60 5/8"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
Felix W. Weldon. Arlington, Virginia, USA, 1954. Cast bronze, over life-size.
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1951-1957
USA TV Sitcom -
1954-1958
New York City, New York
steel frame construction made possible the gleaming modern sjyscraper -
JOSEPH CORNELL
10.75" x 15" x 4"
North Carolina Museum of Art -
JAMES HAMPTON
c. 1950-1964
Gold and silver aluminum foil, Kraft paper, and plastic over wood furniture, paperboard, and glass
180 pieces in all
overall configuration: 10.5' x 27' x 14.5'
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC -
MORRIS LOUIS
c. 1958-1959
Acrylic resin paint on canvas
93.2" x 158.5" -
Joern Utzon, Sydney, Australia, 1959-1972. Reinforced concrete, highest shell 200' high.
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JUAN O'GORMAN
1960-1961
Mural
Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec, Mexico City -
JEAN TINGUELY
Mixed media sculpture -
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Combine painting: cloth, metal, leather, electric fixture, cable, and oil paint on composition board; overall, including automobile tire and wooden plank on floor
7'5 1/8" x 6' x 8 7/8"
Gift of Phillip Johnson
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
JOSEPH BEUYS
Volkswagen bus made in 1961, 24 sleighs, each equipped with fat, felt blankets, belts, and torchlight
Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie
78" x 157" x 394" -
Central Mexico
Oil on metal
7" x 10" -
MARISOL
Painted wood and other materials in three sections
overall: 6'10" high x 65 1/2" x 15 1/2" -
Wayne Theibaud. Oil on canvas, 30"X36".
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barnett Newman, 1963-1969. CoreiTen steel, 24' 10" X10' 11" X 10' 11". The Muesum of Modern Art, New York.
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EERO SAARINEN AND ASSOCIATES
St. Louis, Missouri
Constructed 1963-1965
Stainless steel exterior
630' high -
ANDY WARHOL
Silk screen on wood
15" x 12" x 9 1/2" -
Yoko Ono, Japan/USA. Photo documentation of performanceat Yamaichi Concert Hall, Kyoto.
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ALLAN KAPROW
performance -
DAVID SMITH
Steel
10' x 12'6" x 2'3" -
Shomei Tomatsu, Japan. Gelatin silver print, 11.5" X 16"
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Edward Kienholz, USA. Mixed media, 8' X 12' X 10'. Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
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ANDY WARHOL
one of a portfolio of ten screen prints on white paper
36" x 36"
INV. 79-1970 a. Photo: Joerg P. Anders
copyright: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz -
DAVID HOCKNEY
acrylic on canvas
8' x 8'
Tate Gallery, London -
MOSHE SAFDIE
Designed for Expo '67 in Montreal Canada -
R BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Geodesic dome
diameter 250'
Expo '67, Montreal, Canada -
FRANK STELLA
Acrylic on canvas
10' x 10'
Collection of the artist, New York -
LOUISE NEVELSON
Printed wood
117.75" x 210.5" x 21"
Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas -
HakoneNational park, Japan, opened in 1969
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ALEXANDER CALDER
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
28" x 65.5" x 12"
private collection -
ALEXANDER CALDER
Sheet metal, bolts, and paint
25' high
Destroyed on September 11, 2001 during the attack on the World Trade Center
World Trade Center, New York -
Kane Kwel, Ghana, Africa. Wood and enamel paint, 92" long.
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Brazil, 1970. Screen print on Coka-Cola bottles
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ROBERT SMITHSON
Earthwork
1,500' ling x 15' wide x 3.5' high -
ALICE NEEL
USA
Oil on canvas
40" x 60" -
GUNTER BEHNISCH with OTTO FREI
Munich, Germany -
BETYE SAAT
Mixed Media
11 3/4" x 8" x 2 3/4" -
CHRISTO and JEANNE-CLAUDE
1972-1976
Height: 18 feet
Length: 24.5 miles
240,000 square yards of nylon, fabric, steel poles, and steel cables
Sonoma and Marin Counties, California -
Judy Chicago. 1974-1979. Painted Porcelain and needlework, 48' X 42' X 36'.
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BAMGBOYE OF ODO-OWA
Wood and paint -
RONALD W. DAVIS
Acrylic on canvas
support: 110.5" x 130.75"
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York -
WALTER DE MARIA
1971-1977
400 stainless steel poles
20'7"
land ares: 1 mile x 1 kilometer -
JUDITH BACA
Colored pencil on paper mounted on panel with upholstery backing and mirror
Overall: 68.25" x 50.25" x 2.25"
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC -
Leon Golub. I, USA. Arcylic on canvas, 116" X 186 1/2".
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Magdalena Abakanowcz, Poland, 1976-1982. Eightyy pieces, burlap and glue, each over life-size.
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SUZANNE LACY and LESLIE LABOWITZ
feminist performance piece centered around the Hillside Strangler's victims and the overall violence against women -
CHARLES MOORE with UIG AND PEREZ ASSOCIATES
1975-1980
New Orleans, LA -
Mali, Africa
c. 19th-20th century
wood
29" high
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Lester Wunderman -
Ana Menieta, Cuba/USA. Body, earth sculpture with artist, tree trunk, and mud, at Old Mans Creek, Iowa City, Iowa.
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DUANE HANSON
painted polyester and mixed media
life-size -
Cindy Sherman, USA. Gelatin silverprint, 8 X 10.
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Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi, Paint on Canvas. Australia, Aboriginal, from Papunya.
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MARILYN LEVINE
Ceramic
34" x 10.75"
Private collection -
Ester Hernandez, USA. Color serigraph, 22", 17".
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RObert Arneson, USA. Glazed ceramic, 94" X 29" X 29".
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CINDY SHERMAN
Ektachrome photo
15.5" x 9"
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA -
Maya Ying Lin, Washington, D. C., USA, 1982. Black granite, 492' long; height of wall at center, 10' 1".
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BRUCE NAUMAN
Neon tubing, transformer, and wire
7' 10 3/8" x 70.5" x 25.25"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
HENRY MOORE
Bronze
Length 104.5"
Fukuoka Art Museum -
ELIZABETH MURRAY
oil on three canvases
126" x 135" -
MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES
20 cubic yards -
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
USA
Marble
36" x 35.5" x 25"
Collection Cleveland Museum of Art -
Chuch Close, USA. Oil on canvas, 120" X 84". National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Bali
flowers, fruit, and palm leaves
approx. 24" tall -
GUERRILLA GIRLS
USA
street poster -
JAMES LUNA
Installation/performance -
Sue Coe. Britain, 1987. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 22" X 30"
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GENERAL IDEA
1984-1989
Lacquer on vinyl
78 3/4" x 63" -
FAITH RINGGOLD
Acrylic on canvas with printed, dyed, and pieced fabric
94" x 83"
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC -
GERHARD RICHTER
1/15 paintings, oil on canvas
Installation Variable
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, gift of Philip Johnson, and acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (all by exchange); Enid A. Haupt Fund; Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest Fund; and gift of Emily Rauh Pulitzer.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
I.M. PEI and PARTNERS
Hong Kong -
BARBARA KRUGER
USA
photographic silk screen on vinyl
112" x 112"
Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection, Los Angeles
Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, New York -
NAM JUNE PAIK
video installation -
HUNG LIU
Ink on plywood cutouts, acrylic on wall, felt cutout, and wooden bowl
108" x 52" x 26" -
LIN ONUS
Synthetic polymer on fiberglass, wire, metal
37 1/2" high -
CLAES OLDENBURG, COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN, & FRANK O. GEHRY
1985-1991
Venice, California -
in Bali
Crafted of dyed rice dough
intricate sarad offerings are made during temple festivals by Balinese women
Photograph
Bali, Indonesia -
LYNN HERSHMAN
Interactive computer-video installation at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco -
ANSELM KIEFER
Lead, iron, glass, copper wire, charcoal, and aquatec
17' high -
William Kentridge, South Africa. Mine is a 5-minute 49-second film. Charcoal.
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Arata Isozaki
Nara, Japan
computer-generated print
21" x 23"
Museum of Modern Art, New York -
JANINE ANTONI
three-part installation
chocolate: 600 lbs of chocolate gnawed by the artist
lard: 600 lbs of lard gnawed by the artist
display: 130 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax, and chewed lard removed from the lard cube
27 heart-shaped packaging trays made from the chewed chocolate removed from the chocolate cube
dimensions variable -
Andres Serrano, USA. Cibachromw, 49 1/2" X 60". Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal.
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Displaying it in Washington DC
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JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH
Oil, collage, mixed media on canvas
5' x 8'4"
Museum of Art, Atlanta -
CATHERINE OPIE
USA
Chromogenic print
edition of eight
20" x 16" -
NAM JUNE PAIK
Continental US only
49-channel, closed-circuit video installation, neon, steel, and electronic components
15' x 40' x 4'
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC -
ROBERT GOBER
Pencil on Paper
8" x 4 7/8"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
YOSHIMOTO MARA
1992-2000
felt-tipped pen on postcard
5 7/8" x 4 1/8"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
NAME JUNE PAIK in collaboration with SHUYA ABE
8-channel video, 2-channel sound installation in 2 parts
12'x 33'x2' -
JULIE TAYMOR
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MATTHEW BARNEY
color print in self-lubricating plastic frame
43 3/4" x 53 3/4" -
in the 1996 Rose Parade in Pasadena, California
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SHIRIN NESHAT
Pen and ink over gelatin silver print
49" x 36" -
FRANK O. GEHRY
Bilbao, Spain -
MARTIN PURYEAR
1997-1999
Stainless steel, bronze
540" x 360" x 136"
Getty Museum, Los Angeles -
Yinka Shonibare. Wax-print cotten costumes on mannequins, dog mannequin, painted metal bench and rifles, 65" X 244" X 100".
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Kongo, Zaire
Wood, nails, blades, medicinal material with cowrie shell
46 1/4" high
Detroit Museum of Art -
ANDREAS GURSKY
6' 9.5" x 11'
Inv: AM 2000-96
Photo: Philippe Migeat
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France -
CHRIS OFILI
acrylic, collage, glitter, resin, pencil, map pins, and elephant dung on canvas
96" x 72" -
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY
Storm King Sculpture Park, New York -
Bill Viola, USA. Video.
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TAKASHI MURAKAMI
Acrylic on canvas mounted on board
11'9" x 18'1" (3 panels)
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo -
HAUNG YONG PING
replica of and American spy plane from middle of body to tail
China, Barbara Gladstone Gallery -
LORNA SIMPSON
Still from 16 mm film transferred to DVD
sound: 2.5 minutes -
Kara Walker. USA, 2001. Cut paper and projections on wall, 14' X 20'.
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DOUGLAS SCHLESIER
Charcoal on paper with gold leaf and color
25" x 38" -
KIKI SMITH
lithograph
composition and sheet: 68 1/16" x 56 1/8"
publisher and printer" Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York, West Islip, New York. Edition: 28
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
DAVID CHIHULY
Bridge of Glass at the Museum of Glass Tacoma, Washington -
John Bennett, Gustavo Bonevardi, Richard Nash Gould, Paul Myoda, Julian Laverdiere, and Paul Marantz. New York City, 2002. High power lamps. World Trade Center Memorial at Ground Zero.
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HAYAI MIYAZAKI
animated movie -
Cai Guo-Qiang
gunpowder on two sheets of paper
Overall: 179" x 159.5"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York -
TONY OURSLER
Fiberglass sculpture and DVD projection
Sculpture: 29" x 39" x 16"
Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, 2003
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York -
Frank Gehry, USA. Los Angeles California.
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WANGECHI MUTU
cut and pated printed paper with watercolor synthetic polymer paint, and pressure sensitive stickers on transparentized paper -
EL ANATSUI
Aluminum and copper wire
21' x 27.5'
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France -
Dona Schlesier
Mixed media on paper (oil pastel, handmade paper, papyrus, and thread)
30" x 22" -
Kutlug Ataman
40-channel video installation with tables and chairs, color, sound
Commissioned by 2004-2005 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21), Vienna
Theater der Welt, Stuttgart -
Elevated view
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TIM HAWKINSON
23'6" high
370,000 lbs
Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego -
CAI GUO-QIANG
Valencia, Spain -
RICHARD SERRA
Eight steel sheet sculptures
each 12-14 feet in height and weighing 44 to 276 tons
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain -
Stan Wamiss. Yellow Cedar or cypress, 25" long X 13" wide X 3 1/2" deep.
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DAMIEN HIRST
Platinum and diamonds
Life-size cast of a human skull and human teeth
6.75" x 5" x 7.5" -
MARGARET LAZZARI
Acrylic on Canvas
80" x 75"
collection of the artist -
OLAFUR ELIASSON
Installation along the East River -
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA
Polished stainless steel Ping Pong table, shown here with artists Jay Nelson, right, and Annie Wachmicki, obscured, playing Pink Pong during a NADA preview at the Ica Palace in Miami, Florida -
ANN PAGE
Mixed Media: redwood cube with prototyped, infiltrated, gypsum modules
14" x 4.5" x 4" -
Street Carnival in Olinda, Brazil
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