Ant Farm (1968-1978)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Ant Farm can safely be called Texas's best known and most subversive art collective, one that continues to exert a fascination on subsequent generations of artists, curators, and critics for its incisive critique of contemporary culture through ostensibly humorous means.
From Object to Image: Sculpture, Installation, Media
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following is a 2007 essay by Charles Wylie, "From Object to Image: Sculpture, Installation, Media," in Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for th
B. D. Beiderhase & Co. (American, 1851-1874)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Bernard Beiderhase (d. 1874) was a German immigrant who throughout his lifetime maintained strong ties to other German silversmiths working in the United States. The 1859-60 New York City directory lists Beiderhase as a chaser.
Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) culture developed some two thousand years ago in the Southwestern United States, in northern New Mexico and the Four Corners area where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet.
The Southwest United States
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Southwest culture area encompasses Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah and includes parts of Colorado, Nevada, and California, in the United States, and northern Sonora and Chihuahua in Mexico.
Hohokam
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Hohokam people thrived in the desert regions of what is now south-central Arizona.
Ball, Black & Co. (American, 1851-1874)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Ball, Black & Co. firm descended from the retail establishment of Frederick Marquand, who had been in business in New York since 1823. In 1833 the firm of Marquand & Co. included William Black and Henry Ball. In 1836 Erastus O. Tompkins and J. D.
Bailey & Co. (American, founded 1832)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The original firm of Bailey & Co. was founded by Joseph Trowbridge Bailey (d. 1853 or 1854) and Andrew B. Kitchen (d. 1840) and was located at 136 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1840 Joseph's brother Eli Westcott Bailey, a New York City jeweler and importer hurt financially by the Panic of 1837, came to Philadelphia and entered the firm.
Donald De Lue (1897-1988)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Born in Boston in 1897, Donald De Lue came of age as a sculptor under the tutelage of Paul Manship, with whom he studied in Paris between 1918 and 1922. In 1915 De Lue won the prestigious Kimball Prize, awarded by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston.
Guatemalan Textiles, Male and Female Costume
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Woman's Costume
Huipil (Tunic, Blouse)
Huipil, from the Nahuatl uipilli or huipilli, meaning covering, designates the tunic-like, untailored blouse which is perhaps the most re