French sculptor Antoine-Augustin Préault created eerie contrasts of shadow and light in this composition featuring merely a face and a hand. Linear drapery enshrouds the androgynous figure’s face, drawing attention to its gaunt features, half-closed eyes, and skeletal hand.

Jean Metzinger worked in several styles throughout his career, but he is best known as one of the first artists to practice cubism. The Harbor, one of his largest cubist works, is divided into several vertical panels that depict a busy port from separate points of view.

Moving from Europe to New Hampshire in 1930, Marsden Hartley turned to the White Mountains for inspiration, marrying the lush New England colors he remembered from his Maine childhood with the faceted forms of Paul Cézanne, whose paintings and home base of Aix-en-Pr

Jacques-Louis David may have produced this as a figure study or sketch in preparation for one of his completed paintings. Draftsmanship played a major role in David’s working method.

Between 1895 and 1900, Ramón Casas completed a suite of paintings depicting the same female model in an intimate interior scene. She often wears a white dress with blue trim similar to the one found in Tired.

This drawing is a fully realized study for Paul Carpentier’s painting Self-portrait of the Artist and his Family in his Studio. Standing before his easel ho

Textiles are some of the finest and most specialized arts of the Andes, providing fundamental information regarding regional production, developed techniques, and adopted styles. This implement represents one of the principal tools used in textile production. Loom wands were used to separate and weight the longitudinal threads (warps) for greater ease in weaving the horizontal threads (wefts).

Textiles are some of the finest and most specialized arts of the Andes, providing fundamental information regarding regional production, developed techniques, and adopted styles. This wooden implement represents one of the principal tools used in textile manufacture. Loom swords served to separate warps and compact wefts in textile manufacture on a loom.