The Icebergs is a superb example of Frederic Edwin Church’s technical skill and clever marketing.

Pierre Bonnard experts are not immune to the difficult legibility of this lithograph.

Gerald Murphy’s Razor presents a still life of consumer products one might associate with the modern American man of the 1920s: a safety razor, a fountain pen, and a matchbox. The bold, simplified forms showcase his training in mechanical drawing, as well as an interest in the flattened space of cubist painting.&nbs

Besides the yoke and palma, another commonly portrayed element of ballgame attire is the hacha. Worn atop the yoke, hachas protruded from a padded waist belt and were part of the ballgame gear for deflecting the heavy rubber ball. During the Classic period, city centers created ball courts, their replica of Creation Mountain.