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1900-1950
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1901, The Kiss, Auguste Rodin
The Kiss (French: Le Baiser) is an 1889 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The lovers' lips do not actually touch in the sculpture, suggesting that they were interrupted and met their demise without their lips ever having touched -
1901,Large Tragic Mask of Beethoven, Emile-Antoine
Bourdelle completed the Tragic Mask of Beethoven in April 1901. It was his fourth finished sculpture in his lifelong series of Beethoven sculptures. Bourdelle made of the composer a sort of alter ego who embodied the sculptor’s own will and struggle to create. -
1902,The Thinker , Auguste Rodin
The sculpture is nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to represent intellect as well as poetry.
The Thinker has been cast in multiple versions and is found around the world. -
1903,The Blind Man's Meal, Pablo Picasso
The painting is not merely a portrait of a blind man; it is also Picasso's commentary on human suffering in general. Additionally, the work elicits affinities to Picasso's own situation at the time, when, impoverished and depressed, he closely identified with the unfortunates of society. -
1908,The Kiss, Gustav Klimt
A perfect square, the canvas depicts a couple embracing, their bodies entwined in elaborate robes decorated in a style influenced by both linear constructs of the contemporary Art Nouveau style and the organic forms of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement.The work is composed of oil paint with applied layers of gold leaf. -
1917,National Memorial Arch, Paul Philippe Cret
The National Memorial Arch is dedicated "to the officers and private soldiers of the Continental Army December 19, 1777 June 19, 1778". The Arch is situated at the top of a hill at the intersection of Gulph Road and Outer Line Drive in Valley Forge National Historical Park, Chester County, Pennsylvania. -
1910,The First Battle Squadron of Dreadnoughts, Alma Claude Cull
With the commissioning of HMS St. VINCENT on 3 May 1910, the First Division, Home Fleet, was complete. Composed now of 7 dreadnoughts, this was the first such all-dreadnought squadron in the world: Cull’s painting therefore marks an important event in naval history and although three similar oil paintings by Cull are in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, this one, most unusually, has been in private ownership for at least half a century. -
1910,Christ appearing to Mary, Edward Middleton Manigault
Manigault worked in a wide range of styles following the war, experimenting in abstract and Cubist styles. He found these styles unsatisfying and destroyed most of his paintings. Manigault practiced fasting in an attempt "to approach the spiritual plane and see colors not perceptible to the physical eye", which exacerbated his poor health. -
1920,Fountain of Time, Lorado Taft
Fountain of Time, or simply Time, is a sculpture by Lorado Taft, measuring 126 feet 10 inches , Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois,The work was created as a monument to the first 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain, resulting from the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. -
1920,Lincoln Memorial, Daniel French
The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address. -
1921,Woman and Child on the Seashore, Pablo Picasso
Here an infant sits on its mother’s lap and reaches up to touch her. Picasso’s treatment of the mother and child is not sentimental, but the relationship between the figures expresses a serenity and stability that characterized his own life at this time. -
1922,Water Lilies,Claude Monet
Water Lilies is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings. The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. -
1931,Bust of a Woman, Pablo Picasso
This is one of the most significant plaster bust of the artist’s muse (and mistress) Marie-Thérèse Walter. What happens when two powerful art collectors buy a same artwork following all legal procedures? A lawsuit, usually. One of the most powerful dealers in the world of art – Larry Gagosian – is now engaged in a legal dispute. -
1931,The Persistance of Memory , Salvador Dali, (depicts: Theory of Relativity)
Painted in 1931 by yet another Spanish artist, Salvador Dali's The Persistance of Memory is one of the most recognizable and individual pieces in art history. Depicting a dismal shoreline draped with melting clocks, it is thought that Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity inspired this bizarre piece. -
1931,The Empire State Building, William F. Lamb, Gregory Johnson
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in New York City.The Empire State Building is an American cultural icon. It is designed in the distinctive Art Deco style and has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. -
1935,The Lonely Ones, Evard Munch
Two people on the beach, a man and a woman, have turned their backs on the beholder. The physical distance between them corresponds to the void of the seemingly endless sea stretching out in front of them. The composition evokes the impression of human beings abandoned in nature and also their mutual alienation. -
1937,Golden Gate Bridge, Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, Charles Ellis
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km), three-mile-long (4.8 km) channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.The color of the bridge is officially an orange vermillion called international orange.The Golden Gate Bridge is the second-most used suicide site/suicide bridge in the world, after the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. -
1940,Hawaii Mural,Eugene Savage
Eugene Francis Savage (March 29, 1883—October 19, 1978) was an American painter and sculptor known for his murals in the manner made official under the Works Projects Administration.Eugene Savage was commissioned in 1938 to make for the Matson Navigation company. The works, completed in 1940, were originally supposed to be installed in the company’s ships.Currently on view at The Honolulu Museum of Art. -
1943,Pentagon, George Edwin Bergstorm
The massive complex, commonly known as the Pentagon, was built to house the nearly 30,000 defense workers tasked with helping America win World War II. With more than 17 miles of corridors, it remains one of the largest office buildings in the world. On September 11, 2001, the Pentagon was nearing the end of its first full-scale renovations when American Airlines Flight 77 smashed into the building’s east side, which was unoccupied due to the construction. -
1946,The Key, Jackson Pollock
The Key is one of the most outstanding paint-works listed under the larger Accabonac Creek series which is a diverse collection of meticulous paintings that continue to stun many contemporary art lovers to date.It is widely believed that the paint was given its name (The Key) to signify a new beginning to the field of American artwork at a time when European paintings dominated the art-scene. -
1947,Going and Coming, Norman Rockwell
Going and Coming celebrates the American tradition of the summer family vacation.James "Buddy" Edgerton is the grandson of Elva Edgerton who posed as the staid woman in the backseat, and was a model himself for several of Rockwell's Boy Scout calendars. -
1950,Broken Tree, Everett Spruce
Although many of his early paintings were based on scenes in the Ozarks, for the majority of his career, Spruce concentrated on the landscape of his adopted state of Texas. He worked primarily in the Hill Country, Big Bend Area, Gulf Coast, and West Texas. He primarily used a style known as expressionism. As an expressionist, he sought to capture not an exact likeness of his subject but rather to evoke his feelings in response to a specific scene. -
1953,King and Queen, Henry Moore
It depicts two figures, one male and one female, seated beside each other on a bench. The artist was inspired because he was reading stories to Mary, his six year old daughter, every night, and most of them were about kings and queens and princesses . -
1959,Congregation Synagogue, Elkins Park, PA., Frank Lloyd Wright
Beth Sholom Congregation is a Conservative synagogue located in the Philadelphia suburb of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. It is the only synagogue designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright 1959 -
1959,Luis Miguel Rodriguez, Symbolist Painter
Cuban painter Luis Miguel Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba. At the age of 13, his outstanding abilities to create sketches and drawings led to him to be selected by the prestigious academy of art “San Alejandro” of Havana Cuba. During this time, his love of the sea and the underwater world he discovered temporarily distanced him from the art that he displayed such a passion as well. His love for underwater diving opened a new prospective for his abilities as an artist.
