Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue, is blue and white pottery made in and around Delft in the Netherlands, and the tin-glazed pottery made in the Netherlands from the 16th century.

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With its richly carved crest rail, splat, and knees, this balloon seated chair is a remarkably distinguished example of 18th century Philadelphia seating furniture.

Commissioned for the ground floor atrium of the William H.

Max Weber was an American artist born in Russia to Orthodox Jewish parents. He came to the United States when he was ten years old. From 1905 to 1909 he traveled extensively in Europe, meeting Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

Born in 1884 in Leghorn, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani, the fourth son of a Jewish banker, began his art career through study in both Florence and Venice before moving to Paris in 1906. Once there he quickly immersed himself in the city's stimulating artistic life, meeting people such as Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, and Lipchitz.

Emil Nolde was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. He was trained as a woodcarver, then studied painting at the Academie Julian in Paris and then under Adolf Hölzel, from whom he learned the expressive potential of color. He was a deeply religious man, and his aim was to express his religious feeling through color, using violent color clashes and grotesque distortions.

Born in Santiago de Chile in 1911, Roberto Matta's academic education was completed in Chile before he moved to Paris in 1933. His architectural training qualified him for a draughtsman's position in Le Corbusier's studio from 1935-37. However, during this time, a Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca, introduced Matta to Salvador Dalí and the Surrealists, which caused him to move toward painting rather than architecture.

Born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France in 1869, Henri Matisse began his art career at age 21 during a convalescent period and soon gave up his law practice to study art in Paris. During his early painting career (1890-1905), he produced restrained Chardin-like interiors and still lifes.