1983.W.1848 Cup (quero) with a “Rainbow Motif” (Peru, Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Through twenty years of collaborative research, conservators and scholars have determined the materials and techniques used in the production of colonial wooden goblets, or quero. The polychrome surface was made through inlay with a resin known as mopa mopa (
1975.15 Cup (quero) with processional scene (Peru, Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The cups, or quero, produced during the Late Horizon (1400-1532 CE) did not generally feature painted figurative decoration but rather geometric or abstract designs within two to four registers. During the Spanish Colonial period, figural scenes became increasingly popular and complex, predominating on the upper register.
2007.18.FA Léon Frédéric, Nature or Abundance
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Léon Frédéric’s dense allegorical painting about the harmony and unity of nature is considered among the most important works produced by the Belgian symbolist movement.
1976.W.1129 Cup (aquilla) with felines (Peru, Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
By the Spanish conquest, the tall wooden cup was called a quero (qero, kero), meaning “wood,” in Quechua. The specialized wood carvers were known as querocamayoc. Similar beakers of lesser value were made in ceramic, while the most valuable goblets, called aquilla, were made in silver and gold.
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in an Armenian village in 1904, Arshile Gorky was only about sixteen years old when he arrived in America and began one of the legendary careers in artistic self-education. His schools were the museums and galleries of New York; there, he apprenticed himself to a succession of modern masters — Ingres, Picasso, Léger, de Chirico, Kandinsky, and Miró.
1976.W.1849 Cup (quero) with palm trees and flowers (Peru, Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
By the Spanish conquest, the tall wooden cup was called a quero (qero, kero
1976.W.1850 Cup (quero) with ceremonial scene and tocapu (Peru, Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
By the Spanish conquest, the tall wooden cup was called a quero (qero, kero), meaning “wood,” in Quechua.
Guy's Multiple Views of Brooklyn
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Winter Scene in Brooklyn is one of several versions of Francis Guy’s neighborhood seen from his studio on Front Street. Its best known analogue is Brooklyn Snow Piece (Brooklyn Museum of Art), a large and heavily populated winter landscape singled out as a production of particular note by critics who attended his 1820 Shakespeare Gallery exhibition.
Francis Guy (1760-1820)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
British-born Francis Guy came to the United States in September 1795, after working as a silk dyer in London. He continued that career in New York and in Baltimore until a 1799 fire destroyed his business. His subsequent decision to become a full-time painter was surprising, since Guy had no formal art training.
1983.638 Cup (quero) with profile felines (Peru, Inka)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
By the Spanish conquest, the tall wooden cup was called a quero (qero, kero), meaning “wood,” in Quechua.