Light shading and faintly sketched lines on cream colored paper depict a woman in profile. She appears to be dancing, arching her back and casting a look above and behind her as she steps forward. Her ...
A somber monochrome watercolor of mayhem and dissent at sea. The depiction of a sinking raft, with one furled and one billowing sail, stretches from one side of the drawing to the other. Great, curved ...
Alternate Title: NINE MEDALS SIMILAR IN DESIGN TO COINS 1943.1647A- H. Paul Manship, New York, New York, sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, New York (through Martin Birnbaum), 1929, ...
Hatoum, a Palestinian born in Beirut, uses everyday objects and personal artifacts to examine the effects of exile and alienation. For this work she collected strands of her own hair and painstakingly ...
Dressed in a billowing white satin dress and small matching pumps, a woman at center looks back behind her, running along a path, past flowers and tall grasses on a hilltop under bright blue skies..
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A red bowl decorated with two large white eyes, with black used to indicate the eyebrows, nose and the iris of the eye. There is also a teardrop shape on the forehead between the eyebrows. On either ...
In 1948, Appel was among the group of emerging European artists who formed the avant-garde movement CoBrA, a reference to the capital cities of its founding members: Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam.
In profile facing left, a robed man with a dark beard and curly hair, sits in a chair on a dais, head bowed and staring straight ahead. A crested helmet, sword and shield lie next to him. His arm is ...
Pierced screens have been used in a variety of ways in South Asian architecture: as windows, railings, or room dividers. Although elaborate window dressings in stone and wood have long been components ...
The vessel is black with a tall neck, wide spout and two handles on the body of the vessel. In red, figures sit and stand around on different levels in space. Some are nude with tails, and others wear ...
[Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011. The Harvard Art ...