1951.41 Childe Hassam, Duck Island
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For three decades, beginning in 1886, Childe Hassam frequently visited Appledore Island, one of several rocky outcrops off the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire.
1984.174 Jacob Lawrence, The Visitors
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Growing up in Harlem during its fabled Renaissance, Jacob Lawrence came of age surrounded by the cultural richness of this vibrant Afr
1958.9 Edward Hopper, Lighthouse Hill
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Between 1927 and 1930, Edward Hopper painted two landscapes featuring the Two Lights lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
1992.14 Thomas Cole, The Fountain of Vaucluse
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Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, painted this on his second European journey in 1841.
Emma-O
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Emma-O is the Japanese version of Yama, the Hindu god of death and Judge of the Dead. He was one of the Ten Kings of Buddhism (Ju-O) and leader of a panel of ten judges known as the kings of hell. Each king was believed to preside over his own court, through which the newly deceased must pass and receive judgment.
During the Heian period (794-1185), the idea of t
1994.256 Asura
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Between 1100 and 1400 CE, the artists and
An Inca (Inka) Tunic
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The following excerpt was written in 2003 by Carol Robbins, the former Ellen and Harry S. Parker III Curator of the Arts of Americas and the Pacific, for the publication Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years.
Ellsworth Kelly's _Untitled_
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The following is a 2003 essay by Roberdeau Wood, published in Dallas M
The Influence of India in Southeast Asia: Cambodia
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The first significant kingdom in this area is best known by its Chinese name, Funan, spanning approximately the 1st to 6th centuries CE. Contact with India is revealed through various Sanskrit inscriptions and historical references in India and China.
Asura
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In 1181, the Buddhist king Jayavarman VII drove the Cham from Khmer territory and established his rule over Angkor, the city that had been the seat of the Khmer since the 9th century.